In this tutorial you will learn how to manage a few steps with Photoshop a great Gold Effect - be it a writing, a button or other graphic!
Step 1: Create a text layer
In the example we are using letters that we want to embellish with gold effect. Create a new document, with a gray background (in this example: # 929 292) and select a light yellow foreground color with a dash of orange (in the example: # EDD610).
If you want to try the gold effect on a button or another surface, you follow the same steps.
In the example we set our first Text:
Step 2: a vivid impression received your letter (or your property) by edges and shading.
Open with a right-click the "Blending Options" of the plane.
Set the menu items "Bevel and Emboss and Drop Shadow, set the following values.
Bevel and Emboss
Shadow
Step 3: Beautiful silver, gold or glass effects always work through a series of superimposed gloss levels, the realistic lighting and refraction simulate.
We start with a bright yellow radiance that coat the surface of the letter is (in this example: # F2E364).
Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the text layer. To create with Photoshop automatically creates a selection in the form of the text or object on a plane.
you shrink the level on Select> Modify Selection> Contract ...
... and you narrow down the selection to "3".
on a new level, you can now draw a linear progression, from the foot of the font to its tip.
Now we add a second gloss level. This simulates the room light that is reflected in the gold surface.
Place to a new level and create a selection that ranges from about the vertical center of the letters to something beyond. Set the foreground color to white and draw a linear progression from the center of the letters to one-third over the top of the letters.
These gloss level is only on the surface of the letters (or a surface) are visible. The letters look a little deeper , can we reduce the gloss level slightly.
hold down the CTRL key and click on the text layer. Shrink the selection by Selections> Modify> REDUCE ...
you invert your selection ('CTRL + SHIFT + I') and delete the areas of the gloss level outside of the letters (by 'DEL').
Reduce the opacity of the ambient light level to about "80".
The next level, I call the "edge-gloss.
Create a new layer and draw with the Polygon Lasso two selection areas (such as in the example) that you fill with white.
About
FILTER> Blur> Gaussian Blur ... You can make this plane slightly out of focus.
Try it with a blur value of about "12".
Particularly important is the organization of this level, you should
directly above the text, below the other levels of gloss! Just click on the Layers menu, simply on the layer and drag it over the writing level.
Delete now the areas outside of Scripture. As has already been used several times, just create a selection in the form of letters (By 'Ctrl' and left click on the text layer), invert the selection (by 'CTRL + SHIFT + I') and delete the unwanted areas 'DELETE'.
The opacity of the edges of gloss level should be about "90" to be "95".
The penultimate gloss level, we add, will give this gold a little more content.
On a new layer set the following selection of elliptical:
... and fill them with a dark yellow (in the example: # 92851A). About
FILTER> Blur> Gaussian Blur ... give You level a soft blur, in the example "20".
These overlay plane will act only on the "surface".
Therefore, you create a selection of shrink in the form of text, this (Selections> Modify> REDUCING ...) by 3 pixels, invert the selection ('Ctrl + I') and delete the overlapping areas ('DELETE').
Reduce the opacity of this layer to about "40".
Step 4: ... and you're done.
If you still want to run hard work, you on a new Level with a star-or cross-shaped brush set highlights and even revive the background (by a subtle curve).
few highlights are enough to give the picture to glow.
Do not overdo it!
And this is our gold-text from final:
