Bevel and Emboss | Layer Styles

Bevel and emboss comes in handy when you want to show some depth in your lettering or shapes. The image or the letters get a raised appearance as well as a soild look. May be someone can tell it is a 3D look. anyway today I'm going to show you how to use Bevel and Emboss layer style correctly.

If you see the picture below you can get a small idea about this layer style. Basically this tutorial is for newbies.

How to Add a Glow - Part 2 | Layer Styles

This is the second part of  "How to Add a Glow" tutorial. Previously I've written some posts about Layer Styles Including Inner Glow. If you haven't read them yet,

• How to add a Drop Shadow
• How to add a Inner Glow

Outer Glow is another Layer Style which allows to add a color or gradient around an object.

How to Add a Glow - Part 1 | Layer Styles

Glow effect is another option that we can see among Layer Styles. There are two Glow options called Inner Glow and Outer Glow. We'll see the both glow effects one by one. I will tell you about the Inner Glow from this post. Before that if you did not read the first tutorial of  Layer Styles (How to Add a Drop Shadow) click here to read it. It will help you to understand basic things about Layer Styles. Now we'll move on to the Inner Glow.

Inner Glow
Open a new document using your appropriate settings.
Go to the type tool and type anything you like.

How to add a drop shadow | Layer Styles

    This is the beginning of the Layer Styles section. First I've selected the "Drop Shadow" tool. "Drop shadow" is a Layer Style that you can see under the "Layer Styles". You can have a little idea about the drop shadow tool by looking at the image above. 

First of all we should know what Layer Styles are.

To open Layer Styles,

- Open Layers tab.

- At the bottom of the layers tab there are 7 icons.

- Second icon (Layer Styles icon) contains Layer Styles.