Imageready Text Effect - Inner Bevel Tutorial
June 29, 2008 · Print This Article
This Imageready Text Effect Tutorial will explain how to create a lovely inner bevel effect to your text - as well as add borders and make it look more interesting.
This effect can be extremely useful when you want text to be pretty, stand out more or look like graphic design text - inner bevel is one of the most useful effects you can apply to text. But getting it to look just right, with the correct settings isn’t always a breeze.
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Imageready Text Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- PLEASE NOTE: This tutorial is for Adobe Imageready - however I’m sure you can translate it into Adobe Photoshop.
- In the above image the font I have used is Cheeseburger - you can either download it by clicking on ‘Cheeseburger’ or use your own font - but I do suggest a rather ‘fat’ font so you can have the full effect of inner bevel etc.
- Assuming you’ve opened Imageready then first you need to go -> File -> New - once the little box has popped up change your settings to mine. Look here!
- You should now have a new image - assuming you do… go and find your font tool - then select your fat font or newly downloaded Cheeseburger font. Add some text. I suggest adding what I said, simply because it’s easier with this tutorial. So type in “Can you… show me love?”. The pink colour I used is FF3080 &’ the purple I used is A230FF - Just highlight the bit of text you want to be pink and the same for purple.
- Once you’ve got the text you want continue onto the next step.
- As you can see in the above image the “Can you…” is slanted. To do that do the following: CTRL/Command + J (this duplicates your text layer) - then press ‘V’ and you’ll be using the ‘Move Tool’, click and drag the font downwards - you’ll see you have two of the same layers. Then press ‘T’ and click on one of the layers - doesn’t matter which - delete all of the ‘Show me love?’. And then go to your other layer and delete ‘Can you…’. Then follow the next step.
- You now need to change your inner bevel settings so they’re exactly like mine. Look at mine! - Things to check: Make sure the colour of your SHADOW MODE is NOT black - change it to white. And make sure the DEPTH is not set to 100 but set to 300!
Once you’ve done that and it’s all done then click the other text layer and do exactly as I just told you.
- Now for the more exciting bit… click on one of the text layers and then go Layer -> Layer Style -> Bevel and Emboss - select ‘Bevel and Emboss’. Once you’ve clicked that a box will appear.
- You now need to change your inner bevel settings so they’re exactly like mine. Look at mine! - Things to check: Make sure the colour of your SHADOW MODE is NOT black - change it to white. And make sure the DEPTH is not set to 100 but set to 300!
Once you’ve done that and it’s all done then click the other text layer and do exactly as I just told you.
- You now have your slanted text, inner beveled effect… lastly you need your border!
- Now go -> Layer -> Layer Style -> Stroke - a box will appear… change the stroke from 1 to 3. Once you’ve done that you’ll see a little drop down menu - it automatically has inside on it - change that to outside - and then change the colour black to white. Once that’s done press OK!Now go and select your other text layer - the one without the white border - and do exactly as I said above.
- Lastly it’s time to add the last border. A glitter type border. Please download this glitter block - save it somewhere easy to find.Please go to your layers pallet and select the top layer - then go -> Layer -> Merge Visible
- Now select one of your text layers and go -> Layer -> Layer Style -> Stroke change the stroke from 1 to 3 - change the drop down menu from ‘inside’ to ‘outside’. Then you’ll see another drop down menu ‘Color’, change that to ‘Pattern’, once you’ve selected that you’ll see another drop down menu - it has a little pattern on it/beside it - select the drop down and at the very top there will be an option for ‘Other’, click that, then another box will pop up and you should now locate the file I asked you to download. Then press OK and once again OK to get rid of the first pop up box.
- And that’s it! Adobe Photoshop makes it nice and easy to add custom brushes, but if you have any problems or questions regarding this How to Add Brushes to Photoshop Tutorial then please do leave a comment below.
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