How to ‘carve’ text into marble

[Michael Szalapski]

This can be done very easily with Photoshop. There are loads of ways; layer styles, actions, etc. Check out the Adobe Studio Exchange for marble stuff.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great)

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[David Dubois]

Thanks Michael.

There are some great effects on the adobe site.

After you suggested using Photoshop I did a search online for ‘carving text in photoshop’ and came across this:

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/intermediate/chiseling_and_carving_text.pdf

It really helped me. Hope someone else finds it useful!

Dave

PS. If anyone has any ideas on how to do this in AE (incase the client keeps changing the text) please post them here.

[Mstleger]

You can change the text in Photoshop, and the layer style will update. Just don’t rasterize the text layers. If there is some step in your process that involves rasterizing your layers, and there is no way around it, you can record your steps as an action, and apply it to any changed text with the push of a button.

If you are importing to AE for animation, you may want to create a version with flattened layer styles, sometimes they don’t translate into AE very well.