How to a bevel or emboss to text in Photoshop CC

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Course Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan Scott. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Photoshop. 

In this course I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Photoshop.  

This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Photoshop, photography or design. We will start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

You will learn the Photoshop 'secret sauce' whereby we will magically enhance our background and when necessary completely remove people from images.

By the end of this course you'll posess super skills! 
  • Learn the skills to mask anything… including the dreaded hair. 
  • Using your amazing new masking skills, you will be able to clearcut images.
  • You will learn how to make type interactive. 
  • Together we will look at popular current visual styles and learn the tools and tricks necessary to recreate them. 
  • There is a fun section where you will learn how to distort, transform and manipulate images
  • We will create our own graphics using simple techniques from scratch. 
  • I will teach you to retouch photographs like a professional.. 
  • Finally - any good Photoshop user should know how to put an island inside a bottle! 

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned. 

If you have never opened Photoshop before or you have already opened Photoshop and are struggling with the basics, follow me and together we will learn how to make beautiful images using Photoshop.

Course duration 8 hours 35 mins + your study.

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi there, in this video it's all about Bevels and Embosses. Making this kind of 3D effect, I'll turn it off, turn it back on. All right, I'm not a big fan of it, but you might love it, and that's okay. I will judge you still but I won't do it to your face, don't worry. Let's jump in now, and learn Bevels and Embosses. 

So we can add that Bevel and Emboss to any shape we like. Instead of text we're going to do this circle here, so I'm going to click on the circle. Make sure it's selected, turn the eye on and off so you know you've got the right one selected. It's down here, under 'fx', 'Bevel and Emboss'. And that's it, pretty easy, okay. So you've got some Bevel and Emboss styles. 

So the default is, in a Bevel, looks like it's kind of a little disc. The things you might adjust, there's lots to play around with, but the main one's the depth. Can you see, how sharp this looks now around the edges here. I'm going to turn it down a bit, and the size, how far that creeps in, and then the 'Soften', you can turn it so it gets really fluffy around the outside. So just play with those. Those are your main ones to play around with. 

The other thing you might play around with is, see this Shading? This angle here is quite interesting. Well, not interesting, but you can see, it's headed-- it's going straight from top to bottom, watch this. I can make it look-- you can kind of look at this icon or my little option down here. Let's move it down to make it easier. You just click anywhere here, and decide where you want it to go. That is our Bevel and Emboss. 

Let's look at a couple of the other options. So there's Outer Bevel, which I kind of like. I don't kind of like, I don't like-- I've gone through phases though, I hated Gradients a couple years ago but now you can tell, I'm overdoing Gradients. Let's look at Emboss, kind of looks like it's sitting, kind of, it does outer and inner. There's Pillow Emboss, looks like it's kind of like sitting inside, like it's resting on a material. Just go through and have a little look about these things that you want. Play around with the settings you want to. 

That is going to be it. I'm going to leave with this one, click 'OK'. And as soon as I'm finished, I'm going to click on it, and drag into the bin. You might love Embosses, there's nothing wrong with them, just personal taste, and that's nice. If you love them, we've got an exercise coming up in a second, and you can cover the whole thing in Bevel and Embosses, and share it with me. And prove me wrong. All right, that's it for this video. Let's jump to the next one.

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