Realistic text engraved on silver effect??

[altar]

Hi all,
I must make photos of engraved medallions, and I was wondering if instead of having to engrave and shoot each one I could take pictures of a blank and then use a photoshop text effect to simulate the engraving.

Could any guru in the house tell me is this is feasible and reasonably easy to do or not?

I'd like to show you what I'm trying to simulate but I apparently need 4 posts to have the right to post links...

Thanks in advance for your advice

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi altar

Welcome to PhotoShop Gurus

You can't any page just yet, but you can still post pictures.

You can find suitable medal pictures to play whit on the net or, if you still prefer doing it yourself this may help

Making Medals in Photoshop

Hope this helps

 

[Hoogle]

I am sure it can be done upload a sample picture of a blank medalion and we will give it a shot and let you know how to do it.

 

[altar]

Ok thank a lot!
I've taken a few quick pictures, some showing an example of engraving ("Paris") and some of blanc medallions ("blank").

If there's a way to realistically simulate the engraving with Photoshop, it would save me a lot of time.

Thanks :mrgreen:

 

[SCTRWD]

Make Text layer, enter your text. Turn it to Smart Object. Add Layer Style for it - Inner Bevel or Pillow Emboss, set Fill Opacity to 0. Now go to Edit->Transform->Distort, position and distort this layer properly.
This way everything stays editable: text and font in the Smart Object's content; Styles and distort for Smart Object layer itself.

 

[altar]

Thanks I'm going to try that right now.
I'm still not sure I can achieve a realistic result.

 

[altar]

Ok I find the pillow emboss quite realistic. Smoother than a proper engraving (looks more like a stamping) but it's nice.

 

[Hoogle]

maybe overlay a scratched metal texture over your text

 

[altar]

These are the first results with just a pillow emboss and rotating the text, I haven't found how to properly distort it to match the angle exactly.

 

[SCTRWD]

Well, it could be much easier if we had some visual clues for distorion. Then we could use old trick: use Crop tool with Perspective option to straighten out the medallion. Then place this straight version as a layer over original, turn it to Smart Object, and distort it back to it's original shape. This way we would get the right distorion. Then just change the Smart Object content from straight version to our text...

But your pics look already good as they are

 

[dv8_fx]

Use the Warp tool. click and drag the corners til you achieve the angle look you prefer.

 

[altar]

Warp is greyed out, I can't select it for some reason
Do I have to warp before the emboss fx?

 

[dv8_fx]

You have to rasterize the text layer first so you can edit it.

Make a duplicate of the text layer so you have the original text in case you don't like your edit.

 

[altar]

Yes that's it.
But anyway I find the result already pretty satisfying. With some tweaking I should be fine.

 

[ovenavolstrong]

Actually I little Difficult but just going to put an idea a little Guess here but please correct me if i'm wrong,
Maybe overlay a scratched Metal Texture over your Text.

 

[altar]

Thanks I'll try. Do you have an sample photo to see the result?