Preserved Topic: About these bevels

On http://www.ozones.com/jewel2.html How does the Doc get those nifty , bevels around his jewels?
Thanks


-Wil

Get yer stinkin paws off me you damned dirty ape!

one easy way is to make a circular selection, fill it with a linear gradient, contract by some pixels, fill in the opposite direction with the linear gradient, then contract a bit more and delete

The way I do it is a little harder. I make a new layer under the Jewel. Wake a circular selection....Expand it by 3-4. feather it by 5-10 pixels. Fill it with white. Select the jewel and feather by 3-4. On the same layer that I have my soft white circle fill with 50% Gray. On this layer run the emboss filter. Play with the settings until it looks like what you want. Then set that layer to hard light mode.

If that doesnt make sense I can send you a PSD as an example.

he explains one technique himself: http://www.handson.nu/HTML/insetbar.shtml

(adapt the technique.....)

It's also covered here: http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/depth1.html

in the 'simple bevels' and 'simple bevels revisited' sections.

the gradient method mentioned above is useful as well.

ya know wilmonkey, it isn't very nice to talk about people's beveled jewels....

If your a real sucker for punishment you can always paint them completly by hand like this one:



But I only did it that way as I fount it a real bitch to get the lighting effects filter to do crisp sharp edges the way I wanted them to look.