This tutorial we will learn to do some etching work, which will give us a closer result to Relief sculpture. Relief works are “Semi 3D. These are various way and style in which a relief work can be done. Its generally done on metal, plaster of paris, thermocole, wood etc. We will create a similar effect of that in photoshop using some filters and other tools.The final result of the tutorial.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Lets start with a stock photo of a lady. What you need to Keep in mind is, every photo will have some change in the setting which we have used below. You need to do some play around to get this effect. Give a try.
%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Remove the background color.

Desaturate the layer.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

So you get like this.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop
Now Add a new layer. Fill it with grey color #757575.

Next apply sandstone texture from the Filter Menu with the following.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

So now we have got a texturized background.

Change the foreground to White and background color to Black.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Select the “Lady Layer” Go to the Filters Menu once again and select the Ink Outline and change the settings as below.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Click OK to get the Ink Outline Effect .

Add Inner glow by changing the default yellow to black. This is to make a bevel effect basically.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Add outer glow also in the same way to create a shadow around, with the following settings.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

After applying these effects we get a result as below.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

{photo texture 15}

Lets now add some highlight to the face.

Create a new layer.

By using the brush tool do some touchup like below on the highlights (upper mount) of the face. Here we are using and yellow orange color #f8951e.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Now go to the Blur > Gaussian Blur and apply the settings to the layer.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Finally, Create a new layer and apply radial gradient. this should be the topmost layer.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop

Change the layer blending option to Hard Light.

Change the transparency level to 65%.

We have got the final result.

%photoshop Create a Relief Etching Type Photo Effect in Photoshop