PS Tutorial: Design chrome-plated color text

In this tutorial, we'll learn more about how to create a color chrome-plated text effect.

We've seen a lot of Photoshop tutorials that teach you how to create chrome text effects. In this tutorial, we'll learn more about how to create a color chrome-plated text effect. First, we need a thick, rounded font. Then create a new file with a size of 500pxx500px. A dark gray background is fine. Don't choose black because we have to adjust this part later. Write big on the new layer with approximately 190pt of font size. As shown in the following illustration:

Double-click the font layer to open the Layer style window. Click the gradient overlay, create the gradient, and set the following figure:

We will need the following 6 colors (from left to right): 1. #bedeec 2 #bcb7d7 3. #f0c9d7 4. #f5c8b5 5. #f5f2ca 6. #dff3fe

Now we can get the effect of the following diagram:

Back to the Layers panel, click Gloss, use the following settings:

Now we should get the effect like this:

Now we will apply the following styles: inner glow, outer glow, inner shadow and projection. Let's take a look at their settings:

Inner Glow:

Outer glow:

The inner shadow uses the contour of the custom setting, as shown in the following figure:

Projection:

This is the effect after setting:

It looks good, but we can also improve it. In fact, it's not like chrome. We have to apply the bevel and emboss style of the figure below. Let's take a look at these settings. The custom contour can also be found in the following figure:

We're going to get this effect:

It would be better to see the effect. A darker color would be better, wouldn't it? Go to layer > Create new adjustment layer > Exposure, and enter the following settings:

This is our final result: