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Artist => General Art Discussions => Topic started by: rmonks on September 12, 2011, 09:18:38 PM

Title: How do I do this
Post by: rmonks on September 12, 2011, 09:18:38 PM: How can I accomplish the effect the text (Early Risers) has the shine and shadows
Title: Re: How do I do this
Post by: Homer on September 12, 2011, 09:23:23 PM: bevel and emboss in photoshop?
Title: Re: How do I do this
Post by: Command-Z on September 12, 2011, 09:32:14 PM: You can do it in photoshop. (Eye Candy sells quick and easy plug-ins for doing metallic effects, but you can get by with the Layer Modes built-in to Photoshop).

With the text on its own layer, no background, double click the layer in the LAYERS palette, (If you don't see it, go to the WINDOW menu up top and find it there)

In the Layer Style menu, click BEVEL AND EMBOSS and you will see controls for Style, Depth, Size, etc.

Choose "Inner Bevel" as your Style.

Move the Depth and Size way over to the right till you see the shadows form. There's also a wheel for moving the light source... in this case, I'd move it to the lower right.

With the Gloss Contour, you can get crazy... try different contours and see what happens. In this case, the inverted "V" shaped one might work best.

You can pick different colors and blending modes for the highlight and shadow.

Play with these settings till you get something that looks cool.
Title: Re: How do I do this
Post by: rmonks on September 12, 2011, 10:55:58 PM: Forgot to mention I use Corel 99% of the time, but do have photo shop v7
Title: Re: How do I do this
Post by: Denis Kolar on September 12, 2011, 11:03:18 PM: Quote from: rmonks on September 12, 2011, 10:55:58 PM
Forgot to mention I use Corel 99% of the time, but do have photo shop v7

Can that still be used on new computers? v7 is what....... about 10 years old?
Title: Re: How do I do this
Post by: screenxpress on September 12, 2011, 11:43:22 PM: Yes, I have several versions of PS. Most times I run PS6 and occasionally PS7 on a pretty robust PC (I5) running Windows 7.
Title: Re: How do I do this
Post by: Artelf2xs on September 15, 2011, 09:27:03 AM: easiest way is to just send it to Command -Z :-P ;D