How To Emboss Image In Photoshop

Beveling and embossing is a way to create shading and simulate shadows that brand your text look iii-dimensional.

Here'southward the aforementioned text without and with beveling/embossing.

And here's a shut-up then you can meet how unlike the same text can look.

Prerequisites

You have Photoshop
Yous take an existing text layer in a .psd file.

How to bevel and emboss text

Correct-click on the text layer y'all want to edit, select Blending Options, and then select Bevel & Emboss.
Accommodate the settings as desired, then click OK.
Here are the settings used in the examples higher up.
In the layer view, right-click in the Furnishings department under the layer name, and then select 'Bevel & Emboss'.

What practise all those options mean?

The best way to find out is to try them out. Y'all can see the text effects in your certificate if yous check the Preview box.

The reward of this approach is that by experimenting yous'll see firsthand how everything works, and you might come with a combination of settings that you wouldn't have found otherwise; the disadvantage is that experimenting takes time.

But never fear – here's a cheat canvas! 🙂

There are three groupings of settings:

Bevel & Emboss
Contour
Texture

Bevel & Emboss

Bevel & Emboss options are broken upwardly into the categories Structure and Shading.

Structure
- Mode
  - Inner/Outer Bevel – applies the bevel to the within or outside of the text.
  - Emboss – applies the bevel to both the inside and the outside of the text.
  - Pillow Emboss – applies the bevel to both the inside and the outside of the text, but in opposite directions from the regular 'Emboss' setting.
  - Stroke Emboss – applies the bevel only to the stroke (this simply works if y'all accept a stroke issue practical to the text).
- Technique
  - Smooth – creates a polish, rounded edge.
  - Chisel Hard – creates a difficult, chiseled edge.
  - Chisel Soft – creates a rough, chiseled edge.
- Depth
  Increases the three-dimensional depth. A higher value creates a larger amount of depth.
- Direction
  Specifies whether the bevel & emboss should exist extruded toward or abroad from yous.
- Size
  Specifies the overall size of the bevel & emboss on your text. A smaller number volition limit the bevel/emboss to slower to the edges of the text, whereas a larger number covers more of the text.
- Soften
  Specifies how soft the edges should exist.
Shading
- Angle
  Specifies the horizontal position of the bogus low-cal source.
- Altitude
  Specifies the vertical position of the artificial low-cal source.
- Gloss Profile
  Allows you to create glass and metallic furnishings.
- Highlight Mode
  Specifies the blend way for your highlights, too as the highlight color and opacity.
- Shadow Fashion
  Specifies the blend manner for the shadows, equally well every bit the shadow color and opacity.

Contour

Contour allows you to specify the shape of your bevel.

Contour
Specifies the shape of the bevel.
Anti-aliasing
Smooths the profile.
Range
The range percentage modifies how much of the bevel the contour should use to.

In this example, every setting is the same except for the contour shape.

Texture

Texture allows you to add a texture to your text.

Design
Select a texture pattern to apply to the text.
Scale
Increase or subtract the size of the pattern.
Depth
Adjust the three-dimensional depth.
Invert
Check this box to invert the design.
Link with Layer
Lock the blueprint to your text layer so if yous later on motility your layer, the pattern will movement with it.

In this case, every setting is the aforementioned except for the texture.