O.K. this tutorial will explain how to create a clean professional splashscreen for your website and hopefully teach a few usefull techniques that can be used in your future artwork.

alrighty then lets get started:

1.First open a new image 640 x 480 and set the background color to #F3F3F3.

2.Pick a font for your title, this effect works best using a thicker font like impact but you can use whatever you want.

3. Duplicate your textlayer and set the layerstyle to this:

4. Now select the original text layer and set the layerstyle to stroke. (use the default settings)you should have somthing like this:

5. Merge the both text layers together and then skew (edit -> transform -> skew) so you have somthing like this:

6. Duplicate the layer and select the original layer.

7. While holding ctrl select the layer in the layers menu and fill it with a dark color I’m using #3F1C00 rename that layer “side” and nudge it 1px down and 1px left.

8. Duplicate “side” and nudge it 1px down and 1px left, repeat this step about 8 times then merge all side layers together.you should have something like this:

9. Now merge “side” and your text layer and duplicate 2 times give the top layer a dropshadow with these settings:

10. Select the middle text layer and give it a dropshadow with default settings. now you should have something like this:

11. Select the bottom text layer edit > transform > flip vertical and move it 1px under the original like this:

12. Select the rectangular marque tool selct your side copy 2, create a new layer, select you background color as the foreground color and with the gradiant tool add a gradiant 2x from bottom to top about 3 quarters up like this:

12b: Make sure you have the gradient set to forground to transparent here:

13. Holding the ctrl button select your new layer then select the bottom text layer and press delete 3 times ,set the opacity to 40 % then you can delete the gradient layer.You should have something like this:

14. Well thats pretty much it,the rest is up to you, you can either leave it like it is or you can continue adding different effects to it either way I hope I could help put some insight on how to get a nice 3d text effect out of a couple fairly easy steps.

download the PSD here.