I am seeking some advice on a good method or workflow for creating 3D text and effects in Photoshop CS4. After doing some checking I found "3D Invigorator" plugin, but according to their company web site it does not yet work for 64 bit which is what I use due to the work I do which requires a lot of memory and resources.

Are there any good video tutorials on 3D text and effects? Also, I was wondering how to create effects for the text and make it "decay" as it moves from top to bottom. In other words, say you make the words "Happy Fall" in 3D text and want green leaves as a texture for the top part then have it slowly "decay" down changing the texture to a different Fall leaf color texture.

Thanks,

Jeff

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