Guest Photoshop Tutorial : Stylish Metal Text Effect With Layer Blending

By Jennifer Farley | Feb 4 2008 |

I’m delighted to feature a guest Photoshop tutorial today. Here’s a few words from the author of the tutorial Sherif Salah;

“Hi, I’m Sherif Salah,
I’ve always had a love of arts & illustrations, I love designing web pages,ad posters and logos as well, i like designs that blend colors and images together smoothly in an elegant style, I totally agree with Jennifer that sometimes it is something as simple as a dotted line that can really add to a design I’ve done few different designs over the years, but I’m still learning and looking for ways to expand my skills especially in doing illustrations. “

1. Start out with a new document.

2- Set foreground color to #4F4343 & the background color to white.

3- Type any text within your canvas, choose whatever font style and size you want.

4- Go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending options or doubleclick your text layer in your layer pallete to open the Layer Style settings window.

a- Select Bevel and Emboss and set it as shown below

b- Select Gradient Overlay and set it as shown below, Click on the gradient color to set your gradient color stops as #000000 and #FFFFFF for the first and last color stops, then click OK.

c- Still in the layer style window, select Stroke and set it as shown below, click on color and set it to
#494646, then click OK.

d- Click OK to get out of the Layer Style window.

5- Finally, you get your metal text.

Comments

One Response to “Guest Photoshop Tutorial : Stylish Metal Text Effect With Layer Blending”

Web Designer Group on February 20th, 2008 9:18 am

Thanks Saleh. You taught me one techinque and lots of ideas. I am alos graphics designer related to print media. An artist, always learns, he never become master. He takes ideas from his special sence and perceps and convert it to design. Thanks again.

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