Creating Chiseled or Engraved Text

Solution

Select your text layer from the Layers palette, then open the Layer Style dialog box by

clicking on the Add a layer style button at the bottom-left of the palette and selecting

Bevel and Emboss from the menu that appears. In the dialog box, set the Technique to

Chisel Hard, the Direction to Down, and experiment with the rest of the settings to
finetune the effect. The example below shows the settings I used, and the resulting effect.

Applying.the.Bevel and Emboss layer.style

If the brushed metal background the text sits on looks familiar, it’s because we

created it in Chapter 4! (See the solution for “Creating a Brushed Metal Background”

within the chapter.)