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Tutorials: Manual Edge Bevel (with a bit extra).

The advantage of this is twofold. One, we can use this technique with any image editing program and Two; it's much more precise for small images such as those used in Dawn of War badges.

1). Start a new image, 100px x 100px, flood fill the background (paint bucket tool in most programs) with neutral grey (RGB 128,128,128). A neutral grey background will give us something to base the image over without distracting us by being either too light or too dark. Drag some guides across to the horizontal and vertical centreline. Using the marquee selection tool set to circular/oval, drag out a circle from the centre

image one

2). Next we're going to do a gradient fill. Start a new layer and choose a light beige for the top colour, and a darker brown for the lower colour. In Photoshop we choose the circular gradient fill (or the equivalent in your graphics program if it's not PS). Starting near the top, drag the fill down to just under the selected area.

image two

3). Add some surface details. Leaving the selection marquee active, start a new layer and use a wet media or other 'dirty' brush type, scribble in white over the top and black at the bottom. Add noise, then (in Photoshop at least), Pixilate using the Fragment filter (it's in the main Filters menu). Set the layer to Overlay.

image three

4). With the selection marquess STILL active, start a new layer, flood fill it black. Nudge the marquee up 1 pixel, and hit delete.

5). Nudge the marquee down 1 pixel again. Start a new layer, flood fill white. Nudge it down again 1 pixel, and hit delete. Set both new layers to overlay.

image four

This technique can also be used to add surface detailing and embossing.

image five

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