[how to make shiney gold/silver graphics]

Thanks for the advice! I've been playing around with the gradients and metalized tools. What I did was created a whole new star but without the lines. Took it from there. The metalized plugin is great but I was hoping it'd had an option where you can make your objects shiney (with a high polished reflection effect.). Tried using Specular but all it did was make my gold break up (which made this really cool line effect.)..

I also checked out a few tutorials - problem is, I can't make my mind up on which one I want! They're that good.

[how to make shiney gold/silver graphics]

New here. I stumbled upon a website that offers (you pay them to do it) realistic gold and silver graphics. I'd rather make these myself than pay someone to do it for me. I was wondering how can I make this happen? Do I need to download specific plugins? Can someone give me a step by step guide on how to do this?

Here's the drawing I wanna use to turn gold.