hoodleehoo Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 (edited) I'm looking for a way to make my little logo look like actual shiny gold instead of just gold color (. I apologize for being such a noob, I just don't have much experience with graphic design. :-/ Something similar to this: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/gold/ Is there a tutorial somewhere? I found this one (http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/gold/) and it looks awesome for photoshop. Can I do this exact same thing with paint.net? Edited June 11, 2010 by hoodleehoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 (edited) The basic idea of making things shiny is to give it something to reflect. If you mess with the luminosity curves (adjustments:curves), you can give the object the illusion of reflecting something around it, making it shiny. The other thing you could do is forget everything I said and download the "metallize" plugin. It's basically a quick luminosity curve mod that does it all for you. Warning: it may produce odd and unwanted effects (messed up lighting for example) EDIT: Gold text tutorial if that's not shiny enough, click on the left-most piece in my sig (the one labeled "chrome"). If you play with that effect and color tint the object, that might work too I'll keep updating as I find the mentioned helpful links: Conditional hue/saturation method curves method Edited June 11, 2010 by pdnnoob Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Try this technique by BoltBait: (I'm updating the links to the plugins now). 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...
barbieq25 Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Any one of these tutes should give you good results. In addition to these, once you have how you'd like it to be you can add additional shine glow by using this method: 1. Duplicate the text or gold item layer. 2. Set layer blend mode of the duplicated layer to "Overlay". 3. On the layer below run Glow at the following setting 6, -32, 48, respectively. 4. Run Soften Portrait at the following setting 5, -20, 20, respectively. You may need to adjust the settings to suit your needs. Sometimes Drop Shadow in yellow with a fairly big blur/transparency work well (on the same bottom layer). Also where there are definite highlights you can add a hot spot. 1. New layer above the one you set to Overlay. 2. Use a yellowish/orange brush & draw some hot spots. 3. Gaussian Blur them until they look like the glint off the gold. You make need to make it bigger or smaller. I hope this has helped. Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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