All effects and presets

Effect

Emboss

Raise surface relief with lighting and matcap-style shading.

Emboss filters fake raised surfaces by lighting an edge map as if it were relief. Coins, letterpress and stamped metal taught the eye that language; software borrowed it for buttons and type in early GUI design.

Lighting angle and depth turn a flat photo into something that looks pressed or carved.

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Properties

  • Scale

    Range
    0 to 10
    Default
    4.052

  • Color

    atlas tile index (0..3)

    Range
    0 to 35
    Default
    30

  • Light direction

    base rotation angles in radians (yaw, pitch)

    Range
    -3.14, -3.14 to 3.14, 3.14
    Default
    0, 0

  • Light animation

    angular velocity in radians/sec (trackball axis from XY)

    Range
    -1, -1 to 1, 1
    Default
    0, 0

  • Shadow direction

    shadow direction (xy) and distance=|vec| in pixels

    Range
    -20, -20 to 20, 20
    Default
    3.177, 2.778

  • Lock shadow

    lock shadow vector to rotation

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    0

  • Shadow intensity

    shadow casting intensity from raised areas

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0.464

  • Shadow blur

    shadow blur radius in pixels (0 disables blur)

    Range
    0 to 10
    Default
    0

  • Highlight intensity

    highlight intensity on opposite side of shadows

    Range
    0 to 2
    Default
    0.361

  • Highlight distance

    highlight distance in pixels (separate from shadowVector)

    Range
    0 to 20
    Default
    2.181

  • Gradient strength

    overlay gradient strength from light direction

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    0.228

  • Depth darkening

    uniform darkening based on surface depth

    Range
    0 to 1
    Default
    0.243

Command line

Requires Rethings Pro. Install the tool from Rethings → Install Command Line Tool… 

rethings apply --effect emboss --set scale=4.052 --set matcapIndex=30 -i input.jpg -o output.png

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