Tutorial Details
- Program: Illustrator CS2
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Length: 4:58 min
Illustrator doesn’t have a built-in emboss effect, but you can make one yourself, with few quick steps, using the Appearance panel. Then you can apply it to just about anything.
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By Cheryl Graham
Cheryl Graham trained as a traditional artist in drawing and painting. These days she spends more time in front of the computer than the easel. Her Illustrator work has been featured in the "The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book" and "Real World Illustrator CS5." She wrote the now-defunct Illustrator blog at freetransform.net.
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Thanks Cheryl, another great Quick Tip.
And you can invert the shadow/highlight colors to do a deboss effect! Super helpful, thanks :)
Lauren, you’re right! I should have demonstrated that! :)
Very nice effect. Thanks!
Smart and elegant, thanks for this brilliant tip ^__^
Precisely the thing I was looking for some time ago. So thank you, Cheryl for the tip, now I’ll know how to do this. Yet now it seems so obvious so I just wonder!
Good tip, thanks!
Is a very nice effect! But I really hate video tutorials -.-
my pc begins very very slow, overheated and in a pair of minutes it switch-off!
So please, more stamp and less video…! :(
That’s a cool tip which will allow me to switch to Illustrator for my web design :)
Thanks it is great…