Using Photoshop filter to design three-dimensional metal words

First to appreciate the final effect:

1, a new document in Photoshop, size set to 900*600, resolution set to 300. Fill the background with a darker color (with #332222, readers can try their favorite hue). White as the foreground color, input text "AWESOME", the reader can according to the size of the canvas, style preferences, choose their favorite font, size and style.

2, first to create a surface of metal reflection: New Layer (ctrl+shift+alt+n), named "Metal", and fill 90% of gray. Use Photoshop's own lens flare filter, in menus: filter > Render > Lens light. The settings for this filter are simple, you can explore it yourself, or refer to the settings of the following diagram. Hold down the ALT key, put the mouse between the metal layer and the text layer, there will be the following image of the cursor, click, the text will be used as a metal layer of the mask, so simple metal surface texture came out.

3, Phtoshop mixed layer mode is a very powerful tool that can add shading and highlight effects for metal characters, select the type layer, and double-click into the mixed layer mode.

Shadow: Selects the projection, sets the blending mode to multiply, which makes the shadow darker. Transparency can be grasped by yourself, this article is set to 75%. The direction is set to 90, which can simulate the effect of the ceiling light irradiation. Distance and size can be adjusted to their own needs, distance control the displacement of the shadow, the size of the soft shadow control.

Highlights: Bevel relief effect, style set as the default inner bevel, depth control stereo, here set to 100%. The distance and the size of the function of the same shaded section, here set to 0, so you can get a sharp chamfer effect. Direction and Shadow, also set to 90. Need to explain the height, adjust the height of the value can increase or weaken the metal word stereo effect, here set to 65, enhance the effect, so that the highlights of the chamfering section brighter.

4, the following for the background to add some light to make the effect more realistic. Select the background, also apply the lens Halo filter, you can use the shortcut keys alt+ctrl+f The last use of the filter, adjust the brightness value, here set to 100. Add the blur effect below, using Photoshop's own Gaussian blur filter. To the menu filter > Blur > Gaussian blur, the radius reference picture's actual effect adjusts itself.

5, now the general effect of metal word has come out, but still appear a bit flat, three-dimensional sense of inadequacy, at this time, you can add radial shadow, to enhance the real effect, this step slightly more complex, because also used another phtoshop powerful tool: action, to simplify the operation. The principle is not difficult to understand, is to manually create a shadow layer, combined with a radial blur filter. Here are the detailed steps:

Create a new shadow layer

Create a new layer on the background layer, named "Shadow". Hold down the CTRL key and click on the metal word layer to get a text selection, select the shadow layer, and fill it with black.

6, into the image > Canvas size, the following figure set, the height set to 1600, cancel the relative, the arrow set to offset upward. Create a new centered guide: Select the background layer, pull a vertical guide, and turn on the Photoshop Capture feature (View > Capture), and the guides will snap to the middle of the canvas. The metal word and shadow layer are then centered according to the reference line.

7, in the window Window> action action to create a new action, according to their own needs to name. Here is the recording step (please refer to the picture for understanding):

Copy Shadow Layer (CTRL+J).

Select the copied layer, enter Free transform mode (ctrl+t), pull the center point to the top of the canvas, and scale the layer horizontally and vertically to 100.2%.

In the action panel, press the Stop button to end the recording.

8, select the shadow layer, in the action panel to select the action just established, press play key more than 10 times, so that you get more than 10 incremental offset layer, merge them into a layer.

9, has now been a group of downward shadow, but not soft and real, you can use Photoshop radial blur filter to improve it. Selection: Filters > Blur > Radial blur. The fuzzy method chooses the scale, the quantity control fuzzy degree, the reader must adjust according to own file size, as the figure red Mark, wants to move the center point to the top.

10, select the shadow layer, enter the free Transform mode (ctrl+t), pull the center point to the top of the canvas, as required for displacement and vertical scaling. After the completion of the final application of a Gaussian blur, the radius of the reader to be based on the actual need to set. This completes a super cool Photoshop metal word effect.

Final effect:

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