How to make a carved text in wood with Xara Pro X ?

[gaftalik]

I had a similar requirement the other day, but took a slightly unorthodox route to create a similar effect:

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Cutting out text, making the cut-out text slightly darker and moving the two objects back together, means the wood grain exactly matches.

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for here, but shared for interest.

Gary

Another good method Gary, thank you !

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's one way I've used:
Created by having two clones of a wood photograph
The Text WOOD is overlaid, sized as required, the with it and the top wood photo Arrange/ Combine/Shapes / Subtract shapes
The background image then has a Stained Glass transparency applied
Then with a copy of the text WOOD overlaid in position & cloned, moved down and right, Arrange/ Combine/Shapes / Subtract shapes, given a white transparency.
Ditto repeat but move one copy up and left. Arrange/ Combine/Shapes / Subtract shapes and given a black transparency

[Egg Bramhill]

Another method I use is to use shadows:

Top:
With WOOD cut out of the photo, apply a glow shadow

Middle:
With a white drop shadow applied
Cloned change direction of the drop shadow and change shadow colour to white

Bottom:
Same but the colours of the drop shadows switched.

[ss-kalm]

I tend to find that the difference between EMBOSS and ENGRAVE is purely the shadow location and it's visual effect. This is a 50 step blend on each - VERY quick example - I'm sure it can be made better, but it was just a quick example.

[Acorn]

I thought I'd have a try.



I had losing definition so i tried to keep text as text here.
I have two displaced copies of each line with no fill.

I used CSS to add back the Fill with a transparency; Xara would change this all to an image.
There is a shadow I tried as well. To remove it rename htmlclass="shadow text-gradient" as just htmlclass="text-gradient".
You will see these in Preview.



You can type and replace any of the text and you can move the text around and it will recarve all over again - virtual wood etching.

CSS - The Wind in the Willows.xar

Acorn

[gaftalik]

You guys are brilliant artists, thank you Egg, Keith & Acorn for so many methods!