embossing (ping Dave)

"theartist" <theartist@[remove]ev1.net> wrote in message

Got a decent effect doing this emboss with global lighting and bevel/emboss in PhotoShop 7 using a few layers with layer effects, and some text. Using the shapes layers, it should be rather easy to get what you want:

http://users2.ev1.net/~theartist/images/waxy.jpg
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:19:26 GMT, theartist
<theartist@[remove]ev1.net> wrote:

Got a decent effect doing this emboss with global lighting and bevel/emboss in PhotoShop 7 using a few layers with layer effects, and some text. Using the shapes layers, it should be rather easy to get what you want:

http://users2.ev1.net/~theartist/images/waxy.jpg
<http://users2.ev1.net/%7Etheartist/images/waxy.jpg>

thanx artist, but like KatWoman said, I want the text to be deeper than the surrounding area – as if scribbled into the wax. It seem to be quite easy to raise it but not so easy to lower it.

Dave

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:47:26 -0400, "KatWoman"

I believe Dave was looking for the opposite effect
the letters to be deeper than the surface?

Dave in the effects palettes
under the bevel, contour
try changing the little graphs, they give different effects to the bevel if you want the light to come from a different angle on the letters than the effect on the seal:
untick the box for use global angle

Thanks KatWoman, I’ll start working on your recipe
and let you know.
I have even darkened the text colour slightly
and it is still nor realistic.

From the helpfile on the ‘Emboss Filter’:
Emboss Makes a selection appear raised or stamped by converting its fill color to gray and tracing the edges with the original fill color. Options include an embossing angle (from –360° to recess the surface, to +360° to raise the surface), height, and a percentage (1% to 500%) for the amount of color within the selection. To retain color and detail when embossing, use the Fade command after applying the Emboss filter

This 360° is what I do not find, unless… they talk about +180° on the one and – 180° on the other.

Thanks for your help, maybe this is it:-)

Dave