Ryan hails from a seaside town so his Workshop name plaque will resemble the driftwood. Dan typeset his name in a jagged 'pirate' style font, then created a bevelled relief with the vectors. He surrounded the lettering with a small flat shoulder to separate it from the woodgrain behind it. Then he imported the driftwood texture bitmap from our Texture Magic: Classic Collection and drew a rough and jagged outline by tracing a vector around the bitmap.

Dan used this vector to create a relief and used the dome setting with a 7 degree angle. Then the texture bitmap was applied to this relief with a value of 0.3" — this made for a deep, gnarly woodgrain. He then drew an oval about the same size and modified the lettering relief to dome the lettering to match the 'wood' panel.

Here's a side view screen capture to show how the lettering and the panel ark together nicely.

Then it was time to modify the panel using EnRoute's freehand sculpting tool. Dan used it to sculpt some deeper creases into the panel. The red arrows show the areas and direction he applied the sculpting strokes.

In this final screen capture, you can see how dramatically those few sculpting strokes have affected this panel. Instead of a flat chunk of Precision Board HDU with a woodgrain pasted on it, we have a believable piece of driftwood.