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Photoshop Tutorial – Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text

PublishedAugust 17, 2009
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This tutorial was originally posted on loreleiweb.com and moved for technical reasons. Ok, yesterday I posted that old gold pic I made and Dale asked for a tutorial so here we go… in case you forgot what am I talking about, we are going to make this text effect:

Photoshop Tutorial - Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

So… Make a new canvas, and fill it with black color (#000000). Please note that this tutorial will only good against dark, ideally – black background. We leave a dark border around the text, which is invisible to you now, though if we take a lighter hue for the bg, you will notice that the effect looks different, a lot less interesting.

Next, type a word on your canvas. Make sure you use a very bold font. We used ‘Yikes!’ for this tutorial.

Photoshop Tutorial - Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Go to Layer >> Layer Styles >> Blending Options, and apply the following settings:

Photoshop Tutorial - Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Photoshop Tutorial - Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Photoshop Tutorial - Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

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17 responses

  1. Vim August 20, 2009

    nice font, will use in future websites, can you put some font art on this blog?

    Reply
  2. pedro espinoza August 22, 2009

    good tut….=P

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  3. Hi there August 24, 2009

    Hi, in mail i received you had written and asked for tutorials you said not text effects and other… then why this text effect tutorial ?

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  4. Dave September 27, 2009

    Hi 😛 I’m stuck at the Pattern & Texture overlay. I dont have the “types” 🙁 Please help.

    Reply
  5. Best Texture World October 7, 2009

    Excellent tuts.

    Reply
  6. Widayad November 29, 2009

    thks

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    thanks for good tutorials

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