Gold Chrome Tutorial

STEP 1 Type your text put a selection around your text by holding the apple key and clicking once on your type layer

Step2 go under the selct menu and choose save selection click ok

Step 3deselect

step 4 go under the channels palette window channles and click on alpha 1 go ynder the filter menu under blur choose gaussian blur enter 1 pixel and click ok

Step5 return to the layers palette and click ok o once on the backgroud layer under the filter menu under render and choose lighting effects when the dialog box appers change texture to alpha 1 the click ok

Step6 go under the image menu under adjustment and choose curves changer the input to 186 and the output to 64 click ok

step 7 go under the select menu and choose land selection choose alpha 1 from the channlel pop up click ok

Step8 go under the select menu under modify and choose expand click ok

Step 9press shift + apple +j

Step 10 in the layers palette click once on the backgroud layer press apple +a press delete

Step11deselect click on the text layer in your layers palette add drop shadow click ok

step12 add a color overlay change the blend mode to overlay click ok the color swatch. R 208, G 165, B 16. click ok