Bump Maps and how to get more details in them I've been trying to give this particular artwork an embossed look with details, but I'm falling short. This is what I have:



I have been placing the image on a plane as a bump map, but not getting the desired effect.

The image in green is what I'm looking for:



Does anyone have any ideas?
I would use a software like CrazyBump, Knald, or SmartNormal to create a normal map based on the image you have and add that to your material.

If you are using cycles you can run the normal map through a normal map node and plug that into your shaders.



Here's the result I got with SmartNormal.  You could improve a lot by spending more time tweaking the settings, but it's a start.