Simple Golden Text Effect

Alright, here’s a quick and easy way how to make some nice golden text. I know this tutorial isn’t the most unique or special thing around, but I thought I’d make a nice, quick and easy tutorial for you

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1. New Document/Background

First create a new document in which you can make your text. I used a document size of 400 x 140 pixels.
Now make a background that will suit the text. I used this wood texture for my background.

Wood Texture

2. Writing Out Your Text, Layer Styles

Now write out your text with an olden-style sort of font. I used: Times New Roman, Bold, 42pt, #885f18.

Times New Roman Text

There, that’s your golden text! I’m just joking Right-click your text layer in the layer’s palette, use the following layer styles and options:

Wow, that was a few layer styles! But, you should now have a cool result like this:

After Applying Layer Styles

Looking alright so far, but I like to add a few nice effects to it to finish it off.

3. Finishing Touches

To finish these kind of things off, I very often flatten the image, apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen, fade the sharpen a bit (Edit > Fade) then apply Filter > Render > Lighting Effects. I love it!

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Mess around a little bit with the layer styles and you might be able to come up with a completely unique and nicer effect, be creative! Thanks for reading this simple tutorial, if you want you can download my PSD file from here.

Return home. Published Dec 4th, 2006 under Text Effects.