• Relief carving, the technique used in creating a wood relief
• Relief print, a group of techniques in printmaking
• Terrain, the third or vertical dimension of land surface
• Raised-relief map, a three-dimensional map representing elevation
• Shaded relief, a cartographic technique that portrays terrain by using simulated shadows
• Relief mapping (computer graphics), a texture mapping technique
• Optical relief, the apparent difference in the height of materials in optical mineralogy with differing refractive indexes
• Relief (music), the curvature of the neck of a guitar or similar instrument allowing the strings to vibrate freely

• Relieve terrestre para las formas que adopta la superficie de la corteza terrestre.
• Relieve (arte) para el estilo escultórico.

se le denomina relieve a el resalte o espesor de alguna pintura, abstracto u otros