How?

http://www.no-retreat.com/titlec.jpg
I have been looking around for a while on how to make images look like the above, not the text, but all the shapes with the lighting effects. Please show me where i can find a tut, or tell me a few of the techniques. Thankyou.

That looks to me like a lot of 3D....I'll search around this forum for some similar things, I know this has been asked before. Or if you get a chance, do a search on 3D effects and/or exploding polygons. I know exploding polygons is not the effect you're looking for, but there have been those leading to the 3D questions such as yours.

No its easy enough to do that kind of thing in Photoshop alone.

What you need is some simple polygonal selections and some very subtle gradients.

For the more complex slightly surved shapes use the pen tool and make some shape layers, or layer clipping paths. Now fill these with some more carefully chosen gradients — use the linear and reflected gradient tool for this at a very low opacity set to multiply and screen. You can "airbrush" 3 dimensional forms into the shapes quite easily this way.

No its easy enough to do that kind of thing on Photoshop alone.

What you need is some simple polygonal selections and some very subtle gradients.

For the more complex slightly surved shapes use the pen tool and make some shape layers, or layer clipping paths. Now fill these with some more carefully chosen gradients — use the linear and reflected gradient tool for this at a very low opacity set to multiply and screen. You can "airbrush" 3 dimensional forms into the shapes quite easily this way.

Yeah, im still lost, do u think that you could give me a PSD file of it for reference? TY.

Take a model and put some twists and a bunch of **** to it however you want it and then touch it up in photoshop

Originally posted by prodigouz
Take a model and put some twists and a bunch of **** to it however you want it and then touch it up in photoshop

While that is true... not everyone has access to 3D MAX and it takes a little skill to do it in photoshop.

What version of 3dsm do you reccomend?

I don't think u need 3dsmax for this at all, liek soemoen already said you can airbursh those dark spot in those shapes to make it look 3d,or witht he ploygonal lasso tool make some crystal shapes with some triangular shapes over them (filled black or whatever) and blur it a bit to get the 3d shape effect, and the ones that look more chrome could be those same 3d shaped duplicated with a distort filter, the shape of them looks like they were distorted from somethin at least.

http://www.stridingstudio.com/tutorials/exclusivetech.html

You can try reproducing those complex shapes using that tutorial