Movie Gold Text

In layer styles, you can try and see how a gradient overlay effect will look by clicking on the box and longbar name (not just the checkbox) to enter the dialog field. Choose this gradient to get this effect. You can also change blending modes on most of these layer styles/effects.

You can add more to the Bevel & Emboss by clicking on 'contour' or 'texture'. Try changing the scale to make it more inline with what you want it to be. You want it to look like a form of gold and not a cheesy texture; fortunately by changing the settings you can make a limited and cheesy texture into something that works. These are all layer styles/effects on top of the gold text layer which can be independently turned on or off in the layer's palette.

Make a new 'T'ext layer and type something new. In the text editing field select one letter and make it larger in the options bars or character palette (the font size).

Now right click again after you have selected any area within the text editing field and create some more 'Warp text'. Here I've used 'shell upper' with -26, +39, +5.

Go ahead and add some more text in the editing field, select it and lower the font size (using down arrow key..).

Now, create a new blank layer to add some extra 'bling' to the final image. It's important to create a new blank layer to do this.

Choose the diamond gradient tool with white as the foreground color and foreground to transparent as your mode. This will allow you to create some nice little 'stars'.

 

Here is the final result with some different options in the bevel & emboss layer style in full effect. You can duplicate each layer and then modify the layer effect to recreate the look that you just found while fooling around with the original the first time. Then just hide the layers and Save As to save a copy while hiding the other layers.

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