Soft Emboss
Software : Photoshop CS2
Level : Advance

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Open Photoshop. Open the image to apply soft emboss border.

2. Select Rectangular Marquee Tool and make rectangular selection on the image.

3. Go to Channels tab. Create new channel.

Select > Feather (Radius: 7)

Fill white color and deselect the selection with CTRL+ D.

4. Filters > Brush Strokes > Ink Outlines

Stroke Length: 4
Dark Intensity: 20
Light Intensity: 10

5. Go to Layers Tab and create new layer. Keep the new layer selected.

6. Select > Load Selection (Select Alpha1 from channel drop down and check Invert)

7. Fill white color using Alt + Del. and deselect with CTRL + D.