Gold Chrome Tutorial

Step 1: Type your text. Put a Selection around your text by holding the Apple key and click once on your type layer.

Step 2: Go under the select menu and choose save selection. Click OK.

Step 3: Deselect. Delete your type layer.

Step 4: Go under the channel palette (Window--Channels) and click on Alpha 1. Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Gaussian Blur. Enter 1 px. Click OK.

Step 5: Return to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Go under Filter menu, under the Render, and choose lighting effects. When the dialog box appears, change Texture channel to Alpha 1. Then click OK.

Step 6: Go under the image menu, under Adjustments and choose Curves. Change the input to 186 and the output to 64. Click OK.

Step 7: Go under the select menu and choose Load selection. Choose Alpha 1 from the pop up menu. Click OK.

Step 8: Go under the select menu, under Modify and choose expand. Enter 3 Pixels. Click OK.

Step 9: Press Shift+Apple+J.

Step 10: In the layer palette, click once on the background layer. Press Apple+A. Press Delete.

Step 11: Deselect. Click on the text layer in the layers palette. Add a Drop shadow. Click OK.

Step 12:  Add A color overlay. Change the blending mode to overlay. Click the color swatch. R=208, G=165, B=16. Click OK.