Gold Text Effect – Super Easy Photoshop Tutorial
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This tutorial was originally published on loreleiweb.com and moved over here for technical reasons.
Again a very easy and basic tutorial that doesn’t require much knowledge and experience with photoshop.
Create a new layer, dark brown or any hue. Select the typing tool and type any word / letter on it. I have chosen to use the #d99003 colour for my text, font called ‘Ballpark Weiner’ (available for a free download : http://www.dafont.com/ballpark-weiner.font ) However, if you select any other orange hue, it would still be great.. dont forget that in order to achieve “gold”, you need to start off with orange color.
Click on Layer >> Layer Style >> Shadow.
Apply the following settings:
Go to Bevel and Emboss tab and apply the following settings:
Now, for the final touch, click on Filter >> Render >> Lightening effect. Apply these settings on the background layer (not to the text!) in order to give your canvas a little bit more depth. Naturally, this is an optional step, but is highly recommended in order to make your final result look truly polished.
this also gonna look good with any other font, for example… “SF Gushing Meadow” (available for free download at www.dafont.com/en )
Results using the fonts we started with..
That is it, isn’t it easy? and i think the result is good. anyway, good luck with the tut!
16 Responses
6.9.2010
Really nice design…thanks for sharing…
6.2.2010
i like this typography …thanks for sharing man…
2.17.2010
It worked for only 2/3 people? Don’t listen to them, this works perfectly. Even for someone like me, who is using photoshop after a long time.
10.9.2009
My text is still the orange color, could you have forgotten a step or do I have to have CS4 to accomplish this?
8.1.2009
thanx igot it easyly
7.10.2009
??? what are ya saying this tut worked perfect and thank you for it
6.24.2009
Excelente efecto, muchas gracias por el tutorial.
Saludos
6.8.2009
it didnt work dear…no glow
5.12.2009
I do it with GIMP and when I installed the font, GIMP doesnt display it on it’s list of fonts, can you help me??
4.24.2009
It doesnt work at all! moron!
4.4.2009
Forget it i found the problem!
4.4.2009
Ok this doesn’t work…it doesn’t make my text shiny gold…u must have forgotten a step!