Text on a wine glass

[rosierosierosie]

HI I just took me all day to do this picture of my brother and his wife inside a wine glass, so you know from that I not that great at this. How would you put text saying John & Linda 5/1/09. on the glass so it looks like it was etched in. thanks so much.

[ckjeep]

i'm new to this myself,but maybe a text mask and than add blur and or grain to it.

[T Paul]

Create your text layer
Apply a bevel effect (inner bevel)

lower fill - I lowered mine to 16%
tweak the settings as you see fit, I pretty much kept to the defaults
I did set the shadow mode to 0% opacity

Duplicate the text and turn off the original text layer (backup layer if you want to change anything)
Apply a slight warp to the duplicated text to give it a slight curve to match the glass

[0lBaldy]

Must be a carry over from my newspaper days... I would put the Lady's name first so her name is above her picture and his above his picture.... unless it is really important to you that the man be named first

My quickie

[Dave.Cox]

Good job T Paul. Just thought I would throw and additional thought in the pot. If you are using PSCS4, you can convert the text layer to a smart object, and then apply the warp to the text. Doing it this way, still keeps the text as live text, and can be updated as needed.

Dave

[MBChamberlain]

If you have Illustrator, you can mock up a quick 3D model of the wine glass and wrap a symbol of the text around it, then copy that as a smart object to Photoshop. It makes it so you don't have to guess as to the curvature of the glass. I blended it with linear light and gave it a slight indented bevel.

Cheers,
Michael