Screencast How To: Photoshop Letterpress Effects


The talented Katrina of Pugly Pixel has a great little screencast on her blog showing how to create a letterpress look using photoshop. She explains that there are a lot of letterpress-inspired tutorials out there but the one's she's seen apply inner shadows to the text and explains "that inner shadows are just one component of a letterpress look — there’s also the indented, pillowed-look to the paper when it’s been “pressed”. Katrina addresses this in the tutorial by applying the bevel/emboss layer style to the paper texture, in addition to a few other things. Click here to see.

Jan Halvarson

5 comments:

Unknown said...

thanks for this post, love this effect and I look forward to perfecting it :)

-Winnie
http://winniereally.blogspot.com

Marta said...

That's perfect! Thanks :)

amberlee said...

I would love to get into this, thanks!

Anonymous said...

thank you so much for the feature, jan! ♥

sideoats + scribbles said...

I love Katrina's tutorials and this one is no exception! can't wait to try it.