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Bevel Selection

AA's Assistant

Sarkuts Yellow Gold - found at the bottom of his tutorial.

Gradient Mapping

Metalize

Emboss - which I think is standard now with v4.

 

Font used is:  Frankenstein (can be found on fontzone.net)

 

Tip: :Warning:   Remember to save your work frequently in case of a crash.

 

1.  Begin with a canvas of 800 x 400 and fill with black.

 

2.  New Layer - with color FFD800 and size #192 type your text.  Align centre & Gaussian Blur at default.

 

3.  Holding down Shift select just outside of the text with the Magic Wand :MagicWandTool:  - then Ctrl and Invert selection and make a New Layer.  Then go to Effects - Stylize and

     Emboss and change the layer mode to Overlay.

 

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4.  Go back to layer 2 – which should still be selected and go to Effects – Selection - Bevel Selection at default.

 

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5.  Now you must deselect!

 

6.  Use the Magic Wand with shift held down to select directly on the yellow text on layer 2.  Play with the Hardness/Tolerance in the top tool bar until you get a nice

     selection inside of the text – about 20.

 

7.  Make a New Layer and use the Paint bucket :PaintBucket:  to fill the inside selection with a light grey color # 808080. Deselect and Gaussian Blur at #4.

 

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8.  Select the same layer again with the magic wand, invert and add Noise at an intensity of #60.

     With it still ‘selected’ go to - Adjustment – Black & white and then Effects – Object and use AA’s Assistant at default.

 

9.  Duplicate the layer and change the mode to Negation.  Deselect. 

 

    :Warning:   Remember to ‘save’ your work periodically.

 

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10.  Go to the text layer 2 and use – Color – Metalize at default and repeat one more time.  Use AA’s Assistant twice.

 

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11.  Go to – Adjustments – Gradient Mapping and make sure both the boxes are checked.

 

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12.  Finally play with the Curves Plugin and then the Brightness and Contrast of about 13 and 2.  Or as to your liking.

 

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13.  Duplicate the last layer for more intensity and also you can play with the layer modes on the two layer # 4’s,  as well to change the color of the inside of the text.

 

14.  Finally save your work in PDN first, then Flatten and save in .png.

 

      Hint:  To add depth to the text use Effects – Object – Trail.

 

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Blingkin(oh dear!) good tutorial Pixey. Well laid out , well explained and easy to follow - a real necessity for a numpty like me! ;)

Hear is my effort (forgot to add the Trail effect but it`s still OK) -

 

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@Johnny'sdream - look forward to seeing your result :) .  Thanks for stopping by.

 

@Numpty Gooney :D ...... wow!  What a great result and thanks so much for the kind works.  I actually forgot to add the sparkles, like you did - Duh :/ !

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<3Dear @Pixey!

 

This is very interesting tutorial. :trophy: I hope I did everything right. Thank you so much for your effort.  :cake: :coffee:

 

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Great result @mackenzieh it looks simply perfect B).  Excellent work :star:.

 

@Seerose Fantastic piece here - I like the way you added some trail to it.  Well done you too :star:.

 

I'd forgotten about this tutorial :kitteh: I think I'll have a go at it myself :D.

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My version.. I've used Artistic -> Sponge... instead of Noise for the silver look and changed/simplified some other steps too.

 

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The second one shows a combination of Sponge, Bevel Object of the resulting two tones in alternate directions and Noise. After flattening Star Glow was added like in the first one.

 

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My Goodness @IRON67 This is what I call "thinking outside of the box" - as @Ash was fond of saying ;).  Very nice results indeed and the 2nd one is super-dooper :D.

You did really good :star: and thanks for doing the tutorial :).

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I thought I'd give it a go. Wasn't really aware of this tutorial, @Pixey.

@IRON67's use of  @ReMake's Sponge Effect is a great idea!  I tend to use Grain a lot, but Sponge gives the effect of actual 'gems' in the letters.

 

Great tut, Pixey!  <3

 

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Oooooo - so pretty @lynxster4 and what a good idea using the sponge plugin - it does give it a 3D finish.  Very sparkly too :star:.

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I'd like to know why the embossed layer should be set to Overlay. The whole text there is pure grey so it'll just be completely transparent.

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@Sakana Oji  It's required as other layers, as you continue through the tutorial, will have the Mode Negation, so at the end of the day the result is better.

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8 minutes ago, welshblue said:

what font is it ?

heheheh... after spending a lot of time looking for the font, I gave up and used a logo image instead. It's a trick I used often in my PES modding days. I found a good quality Cartier logo of 2000 px wide.

 

My first instinct for this tutorial was to go for "Tiffany & Co image or even Zwarovski. I discarded both because they are too wide to be ale to show any detail and keep within forum image size limits.

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I should have clarified: I gave up looking for a FREE font. 😁

That one was easy to find. The price-tag was hard to swallow.

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On 9/24/2014 at 11:08 PM, Goonfella said:

 

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How do you do this Sparkle Effect, especially so accurate? I´ve tried "Sparkles Effect Plugin" and "Star Glow" by MadJik and "TR´s Star Filter", but all these didn´t work for me? :( @Goonfella

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 @Djisves! ❤️

 

Wow! Very good result. 

Thank you for sharing with us. :coffee: :cake:

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You mean the embossed layer, which so far has just been solid grey ever time I tried?

EDIT: BTW I'm back on the forum, I just made a new account because I couldn't remember to password for my old one.

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