Emboss Tool Grey Only? 2

[bsquared18]

No matter what the color is of the artwork I create, when I select Filter --> Stylize --> Emboss, the result is grey tones.

Is it true that there is no way to have an embossed result in a color other than grey?

Thanks,

Bill B.

 

[jimoblak]

If you were to look at the function of the emboss filter works, you would find that it basically creates a copy of the image (you can try this on a copied layer with opacity set to 50%), inverts the colors and translates/offsets it by a few pixels on the X/Y axes. When you invert colors over the original image, you cancel them out, making a grayscale image.

To colorize, you need to reintroduce color to the embossed image by going to Image>Adjust>Hue & Saturation (colorize).

You might also make a copy of the original image layer, emboss the copy and then mix with the original layer below by tweaking the copy's transparency.

- - picklefish - -

 

[blueark]

There is, in fact, a little known technique for doing a color emboss. Filter > Other > Custom....

You will be presented with a 5x5 group of textboxes. Put "1" in the center box, then a few -1s around one corner, and more 1s around the opposite corner. It should look like this:

 -1  -1
 -1   1   1
      1   1

Hit OK and you're done! Try different values, or extending the 'corners' out a bit more. Also see thread229-496721 for more info.