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.. So I have used your advice and it works, however i notice these packages will have 20 even 30 brushes. In my mind, I am thinking I can use one or the other independently like the brush in paint. The resulkt when opening these pkgs is they all open at the same time and each create a layer. Thus creating a final look that doesn't allow manipulation other than the layers stacked or removed from the final render. Is there any set of brushes that work as a brush and creates the effect when sweeping over the design? As well as controlling the intensity? Mahalo Pixey.. T ..

So, after downloading numerous brushes from that nice website, I could get none of them to work in PS. I tried every option including circumnavigating and copying them to install folders, not sure why.. It would be a blessing if Paint had such brushes. Mahalo for your help. T ..

So this is an outward 3D projection of the font. Cut the text out with the magic wand so each letter becomes transparent and save as a .png Then try and imagine if this frame you made was 2 inches off the table hovering, then you came along with, idk, lets say a gallon of paint, and you poured it out on this metal plate slowly. The paint would go thru each hole of the font and drip right straight down. Now there is the concept, but, but I need that paint to create a solid wall outlining the font just like if you were looking thru a pair of binoculars, a pvc pipe, a tube, you walk up to the tube and you can see the outline of the tube, but you can also see the walls in the tube, the font cutout is the tube without the walls....

This is an old friend of mine who passed away June 26, 1997. One of the nicest and most humble men you could ever know or meet. Many people know him as "IZ" but his name on stage is: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. I have been working for him and his cofounding band "The Makaha Sons" once known as "The Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau" for years. I have created and Admin their YouTube channel, video edit and a bunch more. I am also the Admin for his Facebook group known as "Israel Ka'ano'i Kamakawiwo'ole ~ The Man The Appreciation" You may have heard his cover song of "Somewhere over the rainbow" his version has been used in commercials, films and television programs, including, 50 First Dates, Charmed, Cold Case, ER, Finding Forrester, Horizon, Life on Mars, 9, Meet Joe Black, Scrubs, Snakes on a Plane, Son of the Mask, and the television series South Pacific. So I am trying to emulate this effect but in several other designs I am working on for his daughter, our new FB page and several video edits I am in the middle of. Mahalo nui loa Pixey, I am going to give it a test drive now. I will provide feedback when I am able. Aloha! T ..

Sorry dear, if I could post an example I would not be here asking for help. But maybe this may help.. **Try to imagine that you are using a flat piece of metal the size of a family picture frame. **On this metal you draw the name "Peace" in the font you like, and then you use a plasma cutter to cutout each letter. **Then you pick up the piece of metal hold it out in front of you and you can see the shop your working in through those exact cutouts. **As you go to set it back down on the table you stop an inch or two above and you can see thru the cuts that you are hovering above the table, if you set it down on the table that effect goes away and the texture of the table is now smashed up flat against the backside of that metal, the result of that is its not that invigorating. **Now imagine that same piece of metal again 2 inches above the table, but as you look down thru the cutout font, you imagine an outline of each letter, the outline then drops 90 degrees straight down towards the table making each letter seem as if it has a thin wall, but not projecting outward but inward, I guess you could call it a "Reverse 3D effect." **Now with a nice texture surface, you lay that down on the table and hold the metal again above the table 2 inches. ** Those thin walls that outline the font and now drop down a half inch, make it difficult to see on an angle thru the font because these walls are blocking all angle views as you can see straight down to the table. That would be the look I am trying to achieve, 3D pops out at you, this reverse 3D does the opposite. **If I could just get this accomplished, my lighting, shading and colorzing the interior walls would be 1,2,3! Mahalo, T ...

Aloha to all who read and mahalo to those who respond. So I am looking for a tool that can produce this same effect, like paint dried up and chipping off.. Hui Ho, T ..

Mahalo dear, I appreciate your help, however the 3D software I use far exceeds this plugin. My question had to do with cutting out text leaving it transparent, then adding a reverse 3D effect to the font so the font would visually appear to have walls leading downward, allowing the seperation effect when object 1, (seen in fig 1) is placed over object 2 (seen in fig 1) giving it a sunk-in appeal yet the text cutout would still be transparent allowing the viewer to see the texture below and trick the mind into seeing it as 2 layers but the top layer would hover an inch above the layer 2 - the texture. Gosh I hope that wasn't overly detailed that it didn't make sense? T ..

I believe your question is more about when you are in the middle of a design and you add text to your design and you are not happy with it, how do you fix it.. Remember this golden rule: Whenever you are using PDN for ANY design work and you use a tool adding something to your design work and are not happy with the outcome all you have to do is simply click the "UNDO" option and it returns to the original state before you made a mistake. The only time this option does not work is when you "Save" the work to the original location where it is stored. In any case and it is a good practice to always make a copy of the original you are working with and practice on the copy, this way if you go beyond your scope, you have the original safely waiting. Hope this answers your question..

Thanks Ego, The BoltBait did make a difference, however my quest requires a deeper solution. Question: Since you are Admin and been doing this a while, "Can you recommend any 3D Plugins for PDN"? Mahalo for your help! T

Hello, Thank you for reading and for any help you can offer. I have been using Paint.net since 2009 and somewhat well versed. I am working on a project now that I would like to know how to add depth to the font cutout, layer 1, similar to font that is raised, (see fig 3) but reversed, I guess you could think of it that way. I need depth beneath the 1st layer in the Font walls, (see fig 1) layer 1 is the design with font cutout, the red arrows show the direction of the font depth I need. Layer 2 is the texture that will be underneath layer 1. I assemble my work or layers using an alternate 3D platform that allows more control such as moving the node depth of the texture deeper than the top layer, the problem is no matter how deep I move the texture layer the top layer still appears to be resting on the texture when I assemble the two. (see fig 2) I can also control the lighting from 3 angles X,Y,Z this will help when enhancing the effect. The long and the short of it would be, when I use paint, to cutout the text, is there a way to add depth and create walls in the cutout text? I need a method or tool that can add such an effect to the text. I searched first as requested but did not find an answer to this endeavor, any help would be greatly appreciated. Aloha, T