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Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to style our shapes with these beveled edges, and we're going to do so using layer effects, which we'll be talking about in a future chapter that's not far away at all. All right, so, I'll go ahead and switch over to my base layers, and with the star layer selected, I'll drop down to the fx icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and click on it. And then, I'll go ahead and choose this command Bevel Emboss, which is really supposed to read Bevel and Emboss, but the ampersand fell off. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and choose the command, and here are the settings I'm looking for. We want a style of Pillow Emboss, and what that does is it creates a light edge on one side and a dark edge on the other of this star shape right here. We want the depth to be 100%, the direction should be up. I'm looking for a size value of 10 pixels. The Angle and Altitude are just fine as is, which are 35 and 30 degrees respectively. We don't need to change the…
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Photoshop’s alternative to pixels1m 15s
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How vector-based shape layers work5m 34s
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Adjusting the roundness of a rectangle5m 59s
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Creating a dashed or dotted border8m 42s
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Drawing and aligning custom shapes5m 14s
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Creating your own custom shape5m 23s
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Designing a custom shape in Illustrator6m 12s
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Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes7m 43s
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Duplicating and centering shapes6m 21s
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Centering a star inside a circle3m 30s
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Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss5m 56s
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Combining shapes into a smart object6m 33s
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Applying lighting and photorealism8m 2s
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Converting text to a shape layer5m 33s
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Editing the shape of a character of type5m 10s
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