In this Adobe® Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create transparent 3D ribbons. Use the Photoshop technique for any kind of project you have in mind. Try to experiment with some of Photoshop's default vector shapes. First, Prepare the background and draw the shape. Open a new document in Photoshop, 500x500 pixels.
Press the letter D on your keyboard to set the foreground color to black and background color to white. Grab the Paint Bucket Tool from the tool bar and fill the background layer with the current foreground color (black). Select the Custom Shape Tool by clicking on its icon in the tool bar:
Go to the options bar and click on the area marked with A to show all shapes. Then continue by clicking on the little black triangle in the upper right corner to open the fly-out menu. Now select the Spiral shape by double clicking on it in the preview window and make sure the option Shape Layers in the options bar is selected:
Click on the foreground color icon in the tool bar marked with red. In the Color Picker window, select a color. Click on the Custom Shape Tool icon again if it's not active or press U on your keyboard. We're now going to draw the shape. Hold down the shift key while you do that to constrain its proportions and draw a ribbon.
Don't make the shape too big, we need the extra empty space around it in one of our future steps. Make sure that the shape layer is active.
Now go to the menu and select Filter / Blur / Motion Blur and select -30 for Angle and a Distance of 30 pixels and click on OK. Duplicate this background layer by clicking on its icon in the layers palette and while holding the mouse button, drag and drop it on the Create a New Layer icon .Again, go back to the menu but this time select Filter --> Stylize --> Glowing Edges and assign 1 for Edge Width , 20 for Edge Brightness , 1 for Smoothness
The last thing we have to do now is changing the blending mode of the Background copy layer to Lighten:
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