What kind of filter or mask should I used?

I'm using Fireworks CS4 and have an image of thick muds splattered against our car. I'm creating a family video and am looking to creater a logo for the video where it looks like the video name is written in text in the mud. I've tried applying an inner bevel filter, but it looks poor.
What type of filter or mask can I apply to give the text depth and shadows?
Heck, I'd be willing to pay for some help at this point.
Please let me know if you have any ideas as I'm well beyond my skillo level on this one.
Thanks all.
Dave
dave at davethoma.com

Well...I don't really have a lot of time, right now. But I think you can do something nifty looking without a whole lot of effort.
Here are a few things you could try...
Put some text over your image. Use a wide font, like Impact. Move the text to the part of the image you'd like to have inside the text (or move the image). Select the image and copy it (Ctrl-C is fine). Select the text and go to menu Edit > Paste Inside (Ctrl-Shift-V). You can use this muddy text object over any image for a video title.
The next step is to choose a font that's more interesting than Impact. The first one I linked you to has the advantage of looking like splatters, but the disadvantage of being difficult to read. Look around dafont in the graffiti or distressed themes and see if anything catches your eye. Check the licensing if you're doing anything commercial.
Taking this method one step further, it would be nice to take advantage of some of Fireworks' fancy strokes. For this, you'll need to convert the text to paths. Select the text, menu Text > Convert to Paths. Duplicate this object. Paste your image inside the upper object. On the lower object, apply a stroke. (See example below, Layer 2.)
Hmm...example time. In the bottom example (Layer 3) the stroke is a Textured Air Brush with a Vein texture (unfortunate that the stroke name is also an effect). This is a Fireworks .png, it's just resized by the forum software:
Good luck!

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