theadamgaskins Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it By the time you finish this tutorial, you should be able to make images like this: Step 1 Fill the background layer with black. Create a new layer, and draw your text that you want to be shiny in orange, with no antialiasing. Step 2 Select the text, and draw a gradient from Orange to Brown, with Orange on top, and Brown on bottom. These are the colors I used, but feel free to use your own combinations. Step 3 Duplicate the Text layer, and name the layers like so Step 4 Blur the Small Blur layer with Gaussian blur just a little bit (I did 5), and the Large Blur layer significantly more (I did around 90). Step 5 This is where the magic happens! Create a layer on the top, name it clouds, set its blend type to Color Dodge, and render some clouds. Make sure you set the primary and secondary colors to Black and White. Just fiddle with the settings until it looks shiny enough. Step 6 This step is optional. Create a new layer under the clouds layer, called "Shine". Draw an oval like so, and go to the text layer, and select everything except the text. Go back to the Shine layer, and hit "delete". Lower the Opacity of the Shine layer, and (if you want) set it to overlay. Apply a Gaussian Blur of 1 or so to the layer, to smooth the edges. Finished Your final setup should look something like this. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Here's the finished product: The more time and effort you put into it, the better it will look. The initial example is an example of this. For those who want it, here is the PDN file that I made in this tutorial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Hi theadamgaskins, welcome to the forum. This is a nice effect. Shiny (that's a little Firefly in-joke ). You've done a good job explaining it in very clear and precise steps. You've even uploaded it into the correct forum section! The screenshots are too large however . The first screeny is 958x772 pixels and the JPG is 174.8kb in size. If you resize this (maximum dimension of 800px - as per the Tutorial Guidelines item 1a), and save it as an optimized PNG (see item 1b) then you'd be able to get the filesize down to 26.5kb. A significant saving in don't you think? Please as a minimum, resize the overlarge screenshots. Thanks. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theadamgaskins Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) Hi theadamgaskins, welcome to the forum. This is a nice effect. Shiny (that's a little Firefly in-joke ). You've done a good job explaining it in very clear and precise steps. You've even uploaded it into the correct forum section! The screenshots are too large however . The first screeny is 958x772 pixels and the JPG is 174.8kb in size. If you resize this (maximum dimension of 800px - as per the Tutorial Guidelines items 1a & 1b), and save it as an optimized PNG (see item 1c) then you'd be able to get the filesize down to 26.5kb. A significant saving in don't you think? Please as a minimum, resize the overlarge screenshots. Thanks. Glad you like it! And, I'm sorry about that. Fixing now... EDIT: ok, fixed Edited December 13, 2010 by theadamgaskins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 You're missing the blend mode for the Cloud layer I've got just one more suggestion: Blur the 'Shiny' layer to soften the edge of the ellipse. Nice that you included the PDN file. A very nice touch! Thanks. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theadamgaskins Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) You're missing the blend mode for the Cloud layer I've got just one more suggestion: Blur the 'Shiny' layer to soften the edge of the ellipse. Nice that you included the PDN file. A very nice touch! Thanks. Oh, thanks. Nice catch, and idea. *added and fixed* Edited December 13, 2010 by theadamgaskins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSkull Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 This is by far the best text tutorial I've seen. The effects so nice. I was very happy with my result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theadamgaskins Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 This is by far the best text tutorial I've seen. The effects so nice. I was very happy with my result. Thank you! Glad you liked it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikesterflame56 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Nice! Here's my result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Im not a very large fan of tuts, this being the first one i properly followed, and i think its very cool! All i didnt do was the eclipse thingy, instead i rendered dents a few times on a duplicated cloud layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtargo20 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 theadamgaskins, what is the name of the font you have used? It's beautiful. Quote Is it me --or do buffalo wings taste like chicken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theadamgaskins Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 theadamgaskins, what is the name of the font you have used? It's beautiful. Old English Text MT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hougesen Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 I used this for my siggy Quote My Gallery - @mew1226rblx - Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltham1 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Very Very Good! I made a school logo with this. Quote Get Creative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFPrime Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Very cool! Kinda steampunk-ish, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzper Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I made a forum account just to let you know that your tutorial is really helpful and easy to follow but still has an awesome result. Thank you for making this tutorial! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzper Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Oh, sorry for doubleposting but I thought that I'd just upload my result for anyone who's interested to see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonwhiskers Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Here is the technique I devised to accomplish this Here is a way I did it. http://flickeflu.com...os/12329314@N05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy6 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) This is awesome Adam, thanks for the tutorial. I've been wanting to get the gold effect. I think this post looks a tad too orange though. Maybe use more of a yellow instead of orange to get the bright yellow gold look. I'll definitely be using this. Thanks again. Edited February 23, 2020 by Dandy6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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