Using the Emboss Feature in Photoshop Layers

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JIMMY HARTMAN: Hi, this is Jimmy Hartman on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip, we'll be continuing with the Bevel and Emboss style and its parameters. The Gloss Contour box will give you options. You've got preset options here that you can play around with to kinda make the--change the look of the gloss, kinda get metallic looks or other duller looks. You can edit this one yourself again by clicking in the box, and you're represented with this graft now. On this graft, the left side of the graft, this point here represents your shadows and the right side would represent your highlights. The shadows being here, your highlights here. The vertical axis would represent dark to light. So if you are to take your shadow here and increase it, it should lighten your shadows. So go ahead and bring that up and you can lighten your shadows. And if you bring your highlights down, it will go ahead and darken your highlights. So you kind of go ahead and play with this graft as you want to kinda get an idea. And just make some of your own effects there. You're also given a little more control over your shadow and highlights here with the Opacity sliders and your Transfer modes for each of them. So you can kinda lower your opacity for whether you want your highlights dulled out or if you want your shadows a little brighter or darker. We'll kinda change that by adjusting your opacity. And if you look over to the left, under Bevel and Emboss, you'll see your Contour and Texture check boxes. We'll start with Contour here. Now, this differs from your Gloss Contour. This contour here actually controls the contour of the bevel itself. So if you select your presets here, you can see the areas of this graft indicate which area is bevelled up and down and up and so forth. You can edit this graft again manually to customize your bevel here. Say, for instance, we're going to make this--say, you're doing Internet graphics and you wanted a button for your Web site here. You can kinda go ahead and play with this here. And now you can see you've got what looks to be a depressed button. I'm going to click Okay. It would change our direction to down so our light--it looks like it's coming from here. And now it looks like it's a button you press. And then you could save that as an image file. And then you could go ahead and move this center one up, because as you can see, the contour is down and then back up and then before we reverse this light, it contoured down and back up. Now, you just bring this middle slider back up and then that would be your button before it was pressed. Back down, just press. So you could save those as separate image files and use them on a Web site for instance, for buttons.

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