Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create a 3D Money Stack Mockup

Hello there, Element's tip series and this time a short guide on how to create a $100 bill stack mockup in Photoshop. We'll take the bill scan we have here and the first thing we'll do is change its perspective. Now, pressing the Alt key while simultaneously pressing the up arrow on the keyboard will duplicate the layer for us. So, we'll repeat the action over and over until that impressive stack of Benjamin Franklin's builds up. Now, we'll grab all the layers together and skip the top layer. Now, let's merge the layers. So, we're left with two layers, one of the bill stack and the second of a single bill on top. Let's go back to the bottom layer of the build stack and mark the thickness of the bills on the front side. And we'll go over it with the burn tool to add a darker look. Now we'll repeat the action on the thickness of the bills on the left side. And this time we'll use the dodge tool to add a lighter look. That's how the bill stack gained dimension. Now let's move to the layer of the bill on top. And we'll add a bend to the top bill like this on the right side too. Now we'll go back to the bottom layer and with the burn tool we'll add a sort of shadow under the top bill. Same on the left side. So we have an inspiring stack of Benjamin Franklin's For now, we are simply going to apply a general shadow effect to the object. But it is incredibly important to keep in mind as we reach the end of this exercise that having one single tangible real dollar bill in your hand is always going to be far better than having 200 virtual digital bills sitting on a computer screen that you cannot actually spend. That's all for now. Thank you and we'll talk again, God willing, in the next video.