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#1 badger.jack Jan 16, 2011 14:40:31	Have been getting back into photoshop recently, thundering along working stuff out for myself, but ive hit a bit of a snag. I have a coat of arms for a character and want it to appear to be etched into his leather coat. Any tips on how to create this effect? Im using CS5 at the moment, and I can pick things up easily enough. Any sort of help would be appreciated Cookies and gratitude to any helpers
#2 EscherEnigma Jan 16, 2011 14:47:26	Looking like it was etched into the leather coat?  Hrm... about the only suggestion I'd have is to play with shadows and highlights, but that's kinda obvious. Have you tried the [Community Art Forum]?  It doesn't tend to have a very active community (no new posts in about two months, truth be told) but someone there might have a better idea.
#3 badger.jack Jan 16, 2011 14:59:01	Fair enough. i'll have a play around. Was just kinda hoping there would be some easy 'press this to do what you want' button (tell you what, when i discovered context-aware deletion i thought i had found the ultimate tool ever) You may have a cookie anyway for being kind enough to drop by
#4 EscherEnigma Jan 16, 2011 15:01:31	Heh.  I know the feeling.  When I learned how to clean up my line art using gausian blur and the brightness/contrast controls I was in heaven for a bit.
#5 Pippa Jan 17, 2011 8:26:50	Challenge accepted! I'm using an older version of Photoshop so I hope everything I mention is still in the same place. I started with this here cuirass: Show
#6 badger.jack Jan 17, 2011 11:52:33	I got the effect in the end by pasting the image into a new layer and maneuvering/skewing it into place. Then I used the colour replace to blend it in. Placed a very small drop shadow in and then lowered the layer opacity until it didnt look like it was pasted in.