NO ANIMALS SUFFERED duringthe production of Photoshopleather, nor during itstypographic embellishment.This smoothly finished fauxantelope glacé obliginglycrimps under the pressure ofnothing more painful thanBevel and Emboss. Move on from here via Wild Boar(add Noise, KPT FiberOptix,and Smudge) to the morerecalcitrant texture of FlayedReindeer (fill pink, Clouds,then Chalk & Charcoal). AddBeads (page 144), Gold (page39), or a ceramic plaque (page80) for a high-fashion look.

Make a selection from thetype layer and create a new

channel—name it “Moo.” Strokethe selection with 7 pixels white,location: center (Edit > Stroke).

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Create a leather effectbackground either by

scanning some leather or import one from a picture library. The effect shown was created inPhotoshop using Render > Clouds.

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Type some text onto a newlayer. We picked a nice bold

sans serif face since it worksparticularly well for this fx.

2 Make a selection fron thechannel named “Moo.”

Expand your selection by 8 pixels.Enter Quick mask mode and apply

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Now create the outerstitching for the type.

With the selection still active,create a new channel—name it“stitching,” expand yourselction by 6 pixels, and strokethe selection with 3 pixels white.Save your selection as a path.Deselect. Go to the brushespalette and create a new brush asscreen shot—selecting your newbrush. Make sure your foregroundcolor is set to black. Then Select“Stoke path” from the Pathspalette—with the tool as apainbrush. It should now look theway the picture does!

4 Create the inner stitchingnext. Make a selection of

your type layer again, but thistime contract the selection by 6pixels and follow the steps asStep 4 again.

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Leather stitch

a Gaussian Blur of about 7.8pixels. Create a new layer (thiswill be called layer 1) and fill theselection with R130, G130, B125.

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Create a new layer ( thiswill call itself layer 2) and

make a new selection fromchannel named “Moo.” Contract

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Make a new selection fromthe channel named

stitching and create a new layer(layer 3). Feather your selelctionby a 1-pixel radius. Fill with R60,G60, and B60. Nudge the layer 1pixel up and to the right toslightly offset it.

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Make a new selection fromthe channel named

“Stitching” and create a new layer(layer 4), this time filling yourselection with R194, G194, B194.

9Merge all four layerscreated since step 6—and

Load the layer as a new selection.Then Edit > Copy. Create a newchannel—call it “type.” (Make surethe channel is initially filled with

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With the selection active,Select the background

layer (the leather image) andcreate a new layer from thebackground layer. Name the layer“effect” (Layer > New > Layervia copy).

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With the layer named“effect” as your active

layer use the lighting effectsfilter to give it the embossedeffect. Filter > Render > Lightingeffects. Don’t forget to load thechannel named “type” as thetexture channel.

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All that’s left to do now isadd the color for the

stitching. Load the channelnamed “Stitching” and on a new

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layer fill it with R247, G240, and B211. Finally, set the layer to 70% opacity.

white instead of black.) With theselection still active, Edit >Paste into your new channel.Now use Curves to darken thechannel slightly.

selection by 2 pixels, Feather by 1pixel (Select > Feather), and fillwith white.

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