This
bevel effect is for squares and rectangles only. Create a new
document and a new layer.
Make
a rectangular selection with the rectangle marquee tool.
Fill it with a color I chose orange.
Use
the line tool and turn ON anti-aliased and use a line thickness that
fits your object. For mine I am going to use a thickness of 4.
Select
BLACK as your foreground color and drag while hold shift (to keep the
line perfectly straight) from the BOTTOM-LEFT corner to the BOTTOM RIGHT
corner. Now drag while holding shift from the BOTTOM-RIGHT corner
to the TOP-RIGHT corner.
Now,
create a new layer and select WHITE as you foreground color ad do the
same thing on the other two sides.
This
bevel is a little too hard, so we need to blur it. Go to
FILTER>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR and blur both layers with the lines on
them. Blur them equally the same and so that it looks like a good
bevel. You will have to use your judgment.
This effect is better then the inner bevel Photoshop provides because
you can change the opacity of the layers with the lines on them if you
find later that you do not want them as strong and it separates the
bevel from the object because the bevel is on a different layer, so you
can remove it if u wish. Also it does not look as cheesy and wont
effect other objects as inner bevel seems to do..
Last Updated on
Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:58:29 PM
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Organic Tragedy Est. 01.05.2003
Previously Shatter Designs Est. 4.14. 2000
Previously Hot Ice Graphics and Design Est. 1996