Turn the characters into super cool metal statues.

The metal statue seems to be simple, making it still more difficult. The general process: first to the character part of the separate, and then go to color and then become the need for gray or copper yellow, and then enhance the contrast to make a rough texture. Initial effect out, you need to use a filter or manual plus high light, the metal texture rendering out, this step is the most important, the operation is the most difficult. Finally, the details can be processed.

Original

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Final effect

1, open the original material, press CTRL + J to copy a layer of background layer.

2, in the background copy of the pen tool to pull out the characters, into the selection and then press CTRL + J to copy the characters to the new layer.

3, the copy of the character layer (Layer 2), press CTRL + Shift + U go color, into black and white.

4, copy the black and white characters layer, get Layer 2 copy, and then reduce his contrast, adjust the color of the choice of white or directly with the brush smear, the purpose is to make the character on the white to Gray, the following figure left.

5, copy the Layer 2 again, using the mask, increase the contrast. Objective to strengthen the contrast of the characters and darken the dark part.