11 Easy Steps to Create 3d Effect Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial I will show to you easily create 3D photo effect in Photoshop. Using the elephant image that I put in a picture frame where the elephants seemed to be out of the picture frame, how to make it? Let's get started!

Picture used in this tutorial

• Elephant

Step 1

First create a new document of 900 * 800 pixels, color background with color code #e3e3c8.

Step 2

Change Color Set Foreground Color to white, use the Rectangle Tool to create a picture frame.

Step 3

Go to Edit -> Transform Path-> Distort. Change the shape like in the picture below.

Step 4

Right-click the layer Shape1 selects Rasterize Layer

Step 5

Go menu Select -> Load Selection to select the picture frame.

Step 6

Go menu Select -> Modify -> Contract input 15px value.

Step 7

Change the Set Foreground Color to a dark color; use the Paint Bucket Tool for coloring.

Step 8

Press Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow on your keyboard to duplicate as much as 10 times. Choose a Shape layer 1 to Shape 1 copy 9 go to the menu Layer -> Layer Marge (Ctrl + E).

Step 9

Add a Gradient Overlay and Drop Shadow on the Shape Layer 1 copy 9.

Step 10

Go to the menu File -> Place open the elephant image, set the opacity to 30% and use Pent Tool to create selection.

Step 11

Press Shift + Ctrl + I and Delete to delete the selection out. And set the opacity to 100%