How To Create A Gold Text Effect In Photoshop
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One of the best features of Photoshop is the Layer Styles. We can create all sorts of effects – plastic, glass, water, ice, metal, and many more. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a gold text effect. I will use only Layer Styles, and once our new style is created, we will be able to save the style and apply it wherever we want.
Step 1
Create a new document, apply a Layer Style on the background layer. Add a Gradient Overlay from black to a dark brown (#443501).
Step 2
Create a new Layer and apply Filter>Texture>Texturizer. Make sure that the foreground color is white and the background is black. After that, change the Blend Mode to Multiply.
Step 3
Add some text. I used Times New Roman, and for the “A” I used the “V” letter and flipped it vertically and horizontally.
Step 4
Now we start creating our gold layer style. We’ll set up the Gradient Overlay first, as shown below.
Step 5
Now we’ll add a Stroke. For the Fill Type use Gradient. The position of the gradient will vary for different typefaces, so experiment and see what looks good.
Step 6
Add Bevel and Emboss, as shown below.
Step 7
Finally, add some Shadow, again following the specs below.
Conclusion
This a very nice example of how powerful Layer Styles are in Photoshop. Sometimes just changing some values can create a totally different effect. For this tutorial I created gold, but if you change the gradient color to variations of grey you will have silver instead of gold.
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“gold layer style” contains from….? what color?
it’s amazing.
thanks
U RE TOO GOOD
Thanks a lot
tell me please >> what’s the code colour you used
Thank You. This is classy stuff…! I’m gonna yse it on my website.
The tutorial is great but one thing you have not mentioned (which is MOST important) is the “colors”. What color did you use for gradient on text, what colors on the stroke. Nothing mentioned.
Without colors I could not follow the tutorial
Brilliant ….
Thanks a lot for sharing it
the best page for effects
Very useful
Thanks very very much
well done
Thank you
NEED THE COLOUR CODES FOR GRADIENT ETC.. !!!!
Great tutorial, however it’s missing the color codes. What I did was copy the picture and paste on photoshop and used the eyedropper tool to get the color.
Brilliant, thank you so much.
i think this is the shortest tut ever!!!
nice
beatiful
Great tut but I can’t get the V to flip without changing all the letters. I rasterized the text layer as mentioned in a previous post and then used the marquee selection tool to select just the letter V that I wanted to turn into an A. All of the text flipped… Help!!!
Perfect!
you did excellent job.
great tut. thank u!
Great effect!
Was wondering what font you are using underneath the TIMES NEW ROMAN font?
Btw EXCELLENT work guys – keep it up
I love this! This tutorial helped out of my clients misery.
Thanks!
nice, five thumbs up man…..
Whats the font for the wordd “abduzeedo”?
what are the color codes?
Exactly what I was going to ask
Try to follow the tutorial… but needed the color codes.
im stuck in step 2, i created a new layer and under Filter texture is disabled
im using windows 7
Thanks! I used it for a title graphic in a music video! came out great!
yeah i wonder other font name:)
Doesn’t really work well with sans serif fonts.
STEP 2:
Make sure that the foreground color is white and the background is black.
Create a new Layer. Use Paint bucket and fill the layer [with white]. Then apply Filter>Texture>Texturizer. After that, change the Blend Mode to Multiply.
Step 4 Colours left to right:
#362709 Location: 0
#fde3a7 Location: 57
#f3e3a4 Location: 98
#634a00 Location: 99
#d7bd64 Location: 100
Step 5 Colours
#f3e2b7 Locations: 0 + 100
#251807 Locations: 7 + 93
#947b42 Locations: 17 + 83
#271a0a Locations: 29 + 71
Very nice. Thank you…