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Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P13:Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She’s the author of Photoshop Album For Dummies, coauthor of Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated, Photoshop 7 For Dummies, and Illustrator 10 For Dummies. She has contributed as coauthor, technical editor, or layout designer for numerous books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Brooks Institute; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Ventura College | 338 Carving Your Type in Stone continued Corbis Digital Stock 5. Press Ctrl C C on the Mac to copy the selected area of your chosen texture the brick in the shape of the text in my example and then press Ctrl V V on the Mac to paste a text-shaped section of that texture in a layer of its own. The text blends in with what s in the background layer in my example the stone and is invisible for now . 6. Choose LayerOLayer StyleOBevel and Emboss to open the Layer Style dialog box. In the Layer Style dialog box you find dozens of different effects that you can create. Carving Your Type in Stone 339 7. Experiment with the settings in the Layer Style dialog box to try out different looks and to achieve various effects. Choose the kind of beveling or embossing you want from the Style and Technique drop-down lists in the Structure area. I choose Inner Bevel and Chisel Hard to produce a dramatic hard-edged embossing effect. Move the Depth slider to the right to increase the depth of the bevel. I set the value at 500 for a raised effect. A lower value produces a less 3-D effect while a higher value produces a more drastic 3-D effect. Select the Contour check box on the left side for an even more pronounced 3-D look. In the Shading area you can adjust controls that allow you to change the apparent angle of the illumination that produces the bevel s shadow. I moved the angle to 95 degrees roughly straight overhead but I left the other controls alone. You can find details about how to use the other options in the Layer Style dialog box in Book V Chapter 4. 8. Click OK to apply the effects that you ve chosen. 9. As a last touch choose ImageOAdjustmentsOLevels to darken the text layer to make it stand out even more distinctly from the background. For more info on how to use the Levels adjustment see Book VIII Chapter 1. Book IV Chapter 3 Creating and Editing Type 340 Book ỈƯ Painting Drawing and .