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Introducing Bevel and Emboss

Introducing Bevel and Emboss - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing Bevel and Emboss

I've saved the results from the previous exercise as Keepsakes.psd found inside the 21_layer_FX folder. In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to the Bevel and Emboss effect, which has by far the most bells and whistles associated with it. Along the way, I'm going to show you how I crafted this lid layer right here, which is the vector based rectangle. The name of which is just called dash for the sake of expediency, so that I'm not wasting any horizontal space here inside the Layers panel. Notice that, I guess, it's a kind of lid in which the seams exactly match. I put that down to the fact that whoever was the carpenter of this thing, was an absolute perfectionist. He or she worked like crazy, just to make sure those seams lined up exactly, like the pattern on a shirt when you button it up, and the pattern goes right over and It looks awesome; same thing here. Anyway, it started off though, as a kind of frame effect. You may recall that the name of my original file was Word…

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