Text emboss background

If you want to to have a nice emboss texture with the text or logo, you can run steps 1-5 in tutorial 1, steps 1-3 in tutorial 2 or steps 1-4 in tutorial 3 first. I chose tutorial 3.


1. If didn't do the previously mentioned steps, create a 128*128, 256*256 or 512*512 image with black background (File\New...). Now, for both versions, type white text or add your logo and place it and rotate it if you want to. You can add a gaussian blur for example (Filter\Blur\Gaussian Blur...)



2. Now use Filter\Stylize\Emboss with these settings: Angle=140 Height=1 Amount=50%. You can also use other settings, like Height=2. After that, you can invert the image by using Image\Adjust\Inverse, that won't be shown here.



3. Now use Image\Adjust\Hue/Saturation with Colorize checked. And it should look something like this (if you hade the settings Hue=0 Saturation=75 Lightness=-50):




Here I added a new layer, used Filter\Render\Clouds and had the layer settings Overlay in the layer palette, I used Hue/Saturation with the same settings again, and merged down the layer (Layer\Merge Down)

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