Using channels and filters to make lifelike titanium gold

Using channels and filters to make lifelike titanium gold

The tutorial's font effects, although embossed, do not need to be done with layer styles. Instead, they are built with light filters and curves. Make the black and white effect first, then the color can be later.
Final effect

1, a new file, attention must be RGB mode.

2, the foreground hue is gray: r100,g100,b100.

3, playing the words of love.

4, the deletion of the text.

5, hold down the CTRL build point text layer, select-Save the selection. Here I name "Gold".

6, point Channel, select the selection just stored "gold".

7, Filter-blur-Gaussian blur, the radius due to the number of its own image depends.

8, back to the layer. Performs a filter-render-lighting effect, changing the texture channel to "gold" with the following parameters.


9, image-adjustment-curve, so that the word more metal texture.
 

10, image-adjustment-hue saturation: Hue 45, saturation 74, lightness 0.

11, change the background to black, complete the final effect.

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• PS Text Tutorial