Embossed and Beveled Text in Adobe Photoshop 7

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in Adobe Photoshop 7. by Phil Russell … Remember that we have only scratched the surface in this tutorial. Have fun. playing.

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Embossed and Beveled Text
in Adobe Photoshop 7
by Phil Russell
What follows is a fairly simple way to create embossed and beveled text in
Photoshop. Start by opening an image for the background. It should not be busy,
because we are going to overlay some embossed beveled text on the background.
A rock surface, a field, an ocean view… anything that will serve as a decent
background will do nicely (Fig. 1.).
Fig. 1. Background image
You can put any words you wish on this background. For our sample, we are
going to use the two words, Mouse Droppings, as the text.
Open Layers palette if it is not already open. Drag the Background Layer onto the
New Layer icon. A Background copy layer appears above the Background layer.
It is the now the active layer (Fig. 2.).
Fig. 2. New Background copy layer
Press t (to bring up the Type tool). Go to the Options bar (at top of screen) and
choose a heavy font, like Arial Black or Futura Extra Bold. Choose a font size and
click on the Centered icon. If the font size or text placement is wrong, you canalways back off a step or two (Command + Option + Z) and choose another size.
Click in the center of the image, possibly a little high for typing two lines. Type
your text (Fig. 3.).
Fig. 3. The text
Click the eye icon next to the Type layer (mine says MOUSE DROPPINGS) in the
Layers palette. This hides the Text layer. Command-click the Type Layer to
make it active (Fig. 4.).
Fig. 4. Text as active selection
Click the Background copy layer in the Layers palette. The Background copy
Layer will now be highlighted. Press Command + Shift + I to inverse the
selection. Press Delete which removes the excess background from the
Background copy Layer. Don’t worry, you will not see anything happen. Press
Command + D to deselect. The crawling ants text has disappeared….