Three Dimensional type with extruded neon: Making the letter forms

- In a previous episode, I created some extruded type…using the 3D function of Photoshop.…Well, there are many times…when I needed to extrude type…but for a totally different effect…which requires a little more work.…Some of my paintings like this one here, hamburgers.…You come in close, you'll see that there is extruded type.…See, except it's hollow showing a neon inside,…an effect that I've used often like right here.…Here it is again.…Extruded type and hollow inside…but this time there's a texture on the sides.…

Even this on my commercial work like this one here…come in real close,…and that's specifically what the client wanted.…He wanted that kind of type.…Neon that's inside of this letterforms…that are hollowed out inside.…So that's what we're going to create today.…A three dimensional type that's hollowed out…and then we're gonna put some neon inside of it.…So, let's go in here and create some text.…So now I have my type tool…and let's just type in the word cod.…That's gonna be nice and easy.…

Basically round edges, a couple of hard lines…