“The Saturday Special Challenge”
Saturday, December 12th, 2009Happy Saturday everyone! Sarah here with another Saturday Special. This week I want to focus on embossing text. With the holidays coming up, I thought this would be a great tip for those holiday pages and projects. I’m sure there are many ways to do this and today I’m going to show you the way I do it in CS4.
You can emboss just about anything and today I’m going to emboss some text on my one of my paper blocks. I’ve opened the paper I want and in a separate layer, I’m going to type the text I want raised in black. After you type, rasterize the layer. Because I am going for a subtle look, I’m going to change the blending mode of the text to soft light. If I didn’t do this the type would be gray against the paper. After you’ve rasterized and changed the blending mode, go to FILTER –> STYLIZE –> EMBOSS.
You can play around with the angle, height and amount until you get it looking just right. On my example, I’ve used the settings: angle 135, height 20, amount 344%
The possibilities are endless here, not only can you do text, but you can do elements and textures as well. On my page I’ve embossed “December 2007″ and the snowflakes on the background paper. For those, I just changed the threshold of the flake so that it was pure black and played around with the settings until I thought it looked right.
Here is my page using Erica Zane’s A Touch of Winter and EZ templates 10
Here are some more pages showing this technique:
In this page by Jenn (jennamy82) she embossed the names along the picture using the Brightside and Jellies: Blooms both by Britt-ish Designs & Love Me Some White Space Template Vol 2 by Trixie Scraps
Li (Li14) embossed the snowflake and used Happiest Season of All, Pocket full of Templates 4, and Candy Stripped Alpha…. all by Britt-ish Designs.
Your challenge is to create a layout with some embossing. Once you’ve completed your LO, upload it to the Saturday Special Gallery, and be sure to link to the challenge post in the forum.
A few reminders:
* You will receive one point for your entry
* You will receive one extra point for using a NEW product within the first week of its release
* You have until the end of October to complete your layout
* No double dipping – please keep your layouts unique to each challenge
* HAVE FUN!
