Trying to recreate “Golden Outer Bevel” for Red text

[Chris Voelz]

Try using layer styles. They work similar to Photoshop.

[Tom Holtzman]

Hi, yes, I’ve tried that.

But the bevel loses the sharp corners in my text.

Also, i don’t know how to make it golden. The beveled sections seem to be somewhat transparent even if i set the opacity to 100 both both highlights and shadow.

[John Cuevas]

I think you could benefit from watching this tutorial on Multi-Bevel effects. I used his technique and created a 2 layer multi-layer bevel. The Text layer I turned off. The Bevel Angular, has an expression back to the source text, to update the text. I used a text animator to change the color of the bevel to be gold. Then made a shape layer out of the text, turned off the fill, turned on the stroke, added Bevel too it. I adjusted both layers in Z space, parented them both to the original layer for the movement.

When the text turns too much, the layer stacking becomes more evident, but if you aren’t going to move or rotate the layers too much, it probably won’t be noticed. Or maybe someone else will have a solution to that problem. See attached example project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDRvjcquq3I&ab_channel=SternFX

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[Tom Holtzman]

Dude, you rock!

I’m getting started but this pretty much does exactly what i needed. Ill update as i advance.

Thank you very much.

[Tom Holtzman]

If you’re interested, this is my final result.

Your tip was right on the money.

Thanks

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[Brie Clayton]

Thank you for solving this, John!