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Tutorial Time: Make Your Own Silver Metallic Texture In Photoshop

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Make Your Own Silver Metallic Texture In Photoshop

In a few simple steps make your own silver metallic texture from scratch. Let’s begin!
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1. Create a new document. Mine was 2000×2000 pixels. Unlock the Background layer by double clicking on it, name it Silver Texture and fill it with color grey #777777.

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2. Convert the Silver Texture layer into Smart Object by right clicking on it and choosing Convert to Smart Object. We are doing that so we can go back and tune our values after applying Smart Filters.

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3. Now we are going to apply some Smart Filters. Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise… (Amount 15%, Distribution Uniform) Now we are going to apply the second filter – go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur (Angle 0, Distance 130 Pixels).

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4. Now we just need to add some light. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient… Name that new gradient layer Light. By double clicking on Gradient Box open Gradient Editor and adjust gradient values according to the image below. On the Gradient Fill window don’t forget to set Style to Linear and Angle to 0.

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5. Put that Light layer to Overlay and that’s it! You have your own metallic silver texture.
As you can probably see, the edges of that image are not the very best, so I would suggest to just trim them with the Crop Tool (C).

Silver Metallic Texture

To download metallic silver texture (.jpg) made in this tutorial click on the image and choose the download icon ↓

Tutorial Time: Gold Foil Text Photoshop Tutorial

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Gold Foil Text Love

I know that there are many beautiful gold foil images that you can use to make this text effect, but I really wanted to make my own gold foil texture. So, let’s begin!
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1. Create a new document. Mine was 1024×1024 pixels. Set foreground color to #fee77f and background color to #ab9042. Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds and you’ll get something like this image below. Name that layer Gold Foil. Then right click on that Gold Foil layer and convert it to Smart Object.

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Next we are going to apply two Smart Filters.

2. With Gold Foil layer selected go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise (Amount: 10%, Distribution: Uniform, Monochromatic checked)

 

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3. Then apply Filter > Distort > Glass (Distortion: 20, Smoothness: 3, Texture: Frosted, Scaling: 120 %) And here it is – your very own Gold Foil Texture.

 

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Because we used Smart Filters we can always go back and modify some of the values. And don’t forget, if your initial image is different size from this one, you will get different result. So play around with filter values for the best effect.

4. Now that we created Gold Foil Texture, we need to make two new layers: one for the background, and one for the text. For the background layer I used white.
Put that Background layer below the Gold Foil layer. Then create a new layer for your text under the Gold Foil Layer. Hide the Gold Foil layer by clicking on the eye on the left side of the layer. I recommend thicker font so you can really see that gold texture. I used a font called  Sail and wrote „Gold“.

 

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5. Then we need to create Clipping Mask to make that letters gold. First, turn on the Gold Foil layer. You can create Clipping Mask by holding the Alt key and hover between text layer and Gold Foil layer, or with the Gold Foil layer selected go to Layer > Create Clipping Mask.
That’s it –  you have your very own Gold Foil Text.

 

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