Specific Bronze a face

[BlueOx]

I've included a sample of what I'd like to have done. Right now, I just want a person's headshot bronzed and 3D-ified as it was in the example, and placed on a plaque.

I know the source material is tiny, but they all will be.

The example plaque was done in 2005 with PSP 10.

I have access to PSP 10, but also Photoshop elements 10. I'd love to learn to do this myself, too.

I'd also like to figure out how to do the text that is on the example.

There are 15 or so other pictures to do, and more to come.

These are for a hobby site. It's a baseball sim league with a loooooong history, and we are putting players into the hall of fame. The site is purely hobby and not paid or profit-earning in any way.

Thanks for any help or guidance!

 

[Rich54]

Your photos are so small that it's hard to tell what the effect looks like on them. But here's one fairly easy approach:

• Choose any ballplayer photo and convert it to Black & White.
• Apply the Emboss filter (Filter>Stylize>Emboss) and adjust the settings to your taste for Angle, Height and Amount. For the Babe Ruth image, I used 122 degrees, 4 pixel height, 157% Amount. For your tiny photos, you probably need lower settings for pixels and amount.
• Apply a Solid Color adjustment layer above the emboss layer. Set the layer blend mode to Color and then choose a bronze color from the color picker.

You can probably find a plaque background that is already 3D embossed, so just convert it to B&W and use the same bronze color as the portrait.
For the text, I don't see anything special about it in terms of effects. It just looks like normal text to me.

 

[BlueOx]

Thank you! This is a great start for me. I wonder how with layers or something I could get the face to have a deeper texture. The face (and to a lesser extent, the text) on the Bob Hoffman plaque look as though they have real depth, like if you ran your hand over it, you could really feel it in 3 dimensions.

 

[Rich54]

There's another filter called Bas Relief that does a similar thing. It's in Filter>Sketch>Bas Relief (but my version of Photoshop is ten years old, so maybe it's been moved somewhere else). In this example I first cut out the background and applied the filter only to the person. You can try experimenting with the settings for this filter, as well.

Other than that, I'm out of ideas. There are versions of Photoshop with 3D rendering capability, but I don't have that and I don't know anything about what it can do.

 

[Argos]

Fun challenge!I made some tests to see what I could get, still a lot of work to be done on the edges, but I don't have that much time sorry. I dont know how to use 3D so i did it without it ^^
I used this image for the test.



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[BlueOx]

There's another filter called Bas Relief that does a similar thing. It's in Filter>Sketch>Bas Relief (but my version of Photoshop is ten years old, so maybe it's been moved somewhere else). In this example I first cut out the background and applied the filter only to the person. You can try experimenting with the settings for this filter, as well.

Other than that, I'm out of ideas. There are versions of Photoshop with 3D rendering capability, but I don't have that and I don't know anything about what it can do.


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Good idea -- I'll toy around with Bas Relief as well. Thank you!

 

[BlueOx]

Fun challenge!I made some tests to see what I could get, still a lot of work to be done on the edges, but I don't have that much time sorry. I dont know how to use 3D so i did it without it ^^
I used this image for the test.

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That looks great! Unfortunately, I'm running into the problem of doing anything that will work with my teeny tiny source pics. I wonder how this would look and work with a 64 x 85 pic.

 

[Argos]

Sorry, i was working on a less defined example. About the question, unfortunately i don't think it would work on an image so small