man i never thought about using gradient for a mock 3d lighting thing! bad ass! simple and powerful!

yeah! first post! love this site, thx for the great tuts!

Yes, thanks for sharing. Simple techniques for a great looking outcome!

sexy!

Clean, simple, efficient – great tut.

Thank you very much for this great Tut. Fantastic!

wow…very nice and easier tutorials great job man

Neat and simple work man, looks very realistic….thanks a lot for sharing. The ‘A’ without a stroke can also be made by using the symbol OTT font and pressing UPPER CASE letter L.

To be honest, i wouldn’t have thought about this.
This was so simple!

very nice!!

Absolutely classy! Great tut – Thanks for your hard work Fabio!

nice effect…good job!!

which font is that?

Whats that funky font under the main VIVAVIDA wording.

Brilliant tutorial btw, very stylish.

Great, thank you!

Great Tutorial. Thanks!

Yes, very nice Tutorial… but my result doesnt look that nice… the borders seem to blur out. Done everything like in the tut.

Awesome. Gotta try it soon!

Nice.
Thanks

Another great tutorial – I acually prefer the background to the text effect, but that’s just me.

I actually prefer the background to the text effect, but that’s just me!

Great tutorial – again.

This is done verry nice.. I did it ones with Silver. Thats also great

Nice and easy :b

Great !!!! im love it

Cool! will try this some time

Great tutorial! Can I ask which font did u use? thanks

Yey! Finally! Thank you for sharing. Saw this effect on your blog and was waiting to see the tut. :p

Thanks you.

Good stuff.

Nice. The piece looks very realistic.

I really like this one! Thank you for sharing!

Nice, clean and simple.

Beautiful. Is real big fun to play with the typeface after the layer style is finished once.

very cool royal look!
will help for some of us for sure!!
thanks..

Clean and nice job. I´m going to do this.

This one’s nice. Very sharp.

Nice, as always.

Nice And Simple

http://www.andystewart-design.com

Your team is doing good works !

In addition they share their know-how for free.

I am french, and there is no site in France that arrives at your ankle !

It’s great !

wow all the tutorials on this site are so much better than on other sites. good work

Dude. Bad ass. This is exactly what I was hoping to find on the site for something I’m working on. Seriously.

cool thanks

very interesting!!

This was amazing… Thanks so much… looks great!

nice tutorial.. thanks
i’ve used this is effect before for a silver logo but without the Bevel and Emboss. http://www.peorex.com but i never thought that i came up with something new

Simple And Best Result TUT….

Nice Work .. I never thought that Gold Text Effect is much easy ….

THanks For The Sharing

Great tute guys. Fabio and Collis… you guys rock. Really want to see you doing more tutes!

Dear Fabio from PSDTUTS,

I just featured this tutorial as my weekly favorite. I hope you don’t mind letting me review your tutorials.

Best regards,
Firewalker

This is the link (I lose the ‘t’ in ‘http’ so that it won’t link back to my site):
htp://firewalker.kamusilmiah.com/weekly-design-source-january-17th-2008/

There are many tus online how to make golden text, but this is the best.

Awesome! Just the look I was wanting

very nice tut and very cool- great job right there. thanks

Superb. You never stop impressing me.

I like this very much. And the way the tut was made goes well with how the effect was made. Short, simple and concise.

cool…. just want to know… why you create complete site?

great tut. I’m reasonably new to Photoshop and couldn’t figure out how to do the first step. it wouldn’t let me create a layer style on the background. I ended up making the background a smart object which then allowed me to add the effect.

Thanks again for the tut.

which is the font size you used?

Can somebody please post what fonts were used in this article ?

awesome teknic…difinitely will try this soon… keep it up guys

It’s good, but not perfect.. the gradient doesn’t work an anything, that hasn’t a straight top and it doesn’t scale good either (which is a problem with most of the text-effect tutorials on this site)… a better solution would be a thin (1-2 points) and clear inner shadow from 90° – this way, it works not only on text and can be scaled.

Awesomeeee

WOW! I was impressed with the results and it really was SO simple! Dang…I think I’ll create an action out of this and use it when I want classy looking text!!

this is a excellent,i love this perfect background and text,really i impressed alot.thanks very much,thanks for sharing.

You don’t need to make an action out of it… Just select the layer that you applied the styles to and go to the Styles pallette and hit “New Style” and it will make a clickable style out of your text style.

Any text you want to gild can be done so in a click of that new style.

Superb Techniques!

I will definitely be using this in the near future.

Keep up the excellent tutorials!

-Ken Jones MD
Instant Blog Traffic

very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very clean perfect…

I linked here in search of advanced tutorials looking for complex new ideas and found a simple layers style tutorial for gold letters.

I’m very impressed however. Simple, but stunning. I think it is the whole effect with the background colors and background gradient and the simplicity of a well achieved letter gradient that make this such a stunning effect. I presume I may use it?

By the way, the use of the inverted, flipped “V” was a neat twist. A true Roman feel to it. Great artwork.

Thank you all for the comments….

Answering some questions:

- the font is times new roman (yeah the old times), I just flipped the V to create the A
- instead of creating an action, just save the Style
- when you use a bold typeface or another typeface you will probably have to change the Gradient Overlay in the Layer Styles. Otherwise the reflections will change.

Excellent tutorial, but the colors for the gradient overlay and stroke aren’t explained in any detail. Mind sharing the colors you used for it?

can you tell me the EXACT colors you used
because the ones that you put in the first part didn’t make it look like your outcome..

My oh my… PSDTUTS Tutorial on Gold text looks a hellovalot better than this one: http://www.grafx-design.com/06photo.html lol…

Try these hex # colors:
gradient overlay: 43310D, F7E2AD, F7E3A8, 634A2B, D43A63
stroke: F4E2B2, 251807, 92783B, 241407, 241407, 92783B, 251807, F4E2B2

Next great tut! Thx.

Fantastic Tutorial

Thank you for this tutorial. I love the effect that it produced. Perhaps you could have gone into a little more detail with the gradient and stroke though as you kind of glossed over that section quite quickly and it’s the most important part for the overall effect.

Thanks to Stephen’s comment above where he posted the HEX values. However, I did actually buy this tutorial as was so impressed with it. Only a little bit out with those HEX values!

It’s quite a classy effect that you see on a lot of those high-end portfolios.

Oliver ConinghamWebsite design in Yeovil by Oliver Coningham

This is a rookie question probably, but can you list the colors please…

not a very clear tutorial.. step1 and 2 are really vague. If you don’t create a new image that’s squareish like step 1, the radial thingy in the middle will look really bad. Also in step2, he tells you to create a new layer and apply filter, but you cant apply any filter to an empty layer!

I really like this one, it has a nice genuine style.

Nice. Very cool.

wow,I like it!

GREAT TUTOTIRAL

Man you are a photoshop killer!!!
Love youre tuts and your blog.
Thx for sharing!

Dude, if you’ll excuse the terrible cliche… that’s just awesome. 10/10 for simple grace.

Extra Kuul, keep it up

very good tutorial. i will make now.

loved it

Thank you man !!!!

that was awsem i didn’t think that was so sample

keep it up

i cant change the gradiant color any one know please post it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How did you only flip one letter??

when i trie it the whole word flips

Michal, try rasterizing it, selecting the letter with selection tool, and then flipping it.

Great tutorial.

What is the font you used that’s under the Times New Roman text in the last picture? I gotta get me that!

THE BIGEST THANKS TO AUTHOR OF THIS PUBLICATION!!!

I can’t get Step 2 to work. That filter option is grayed out. Any ideas? Thanks.

you can show next time the layer history =)

OMG BEST TUT FOR GOLD EVA!~! works on almost all my fonts and onli requires slight tweeks

XOXO
i luv u
=D

Wonderful tutorial, and very elegant results.
Of course all you need to do to get a silver/platinum effect is to tweak the gradients accordingly.
Thank you!

Muito bom!

se ve muy real, excelente tutorial ñ_ñ

Saludos =)

Very Nice. Though a few years back I had seen a tutorial on http://www.Designsbymark.com which was even easier and more convincing in its appearance. Unfortunately now its a “paid site”. Anyone have any of his old tutorials???

Great effect, but it was goddamn annoying to find the colors you used, especially 8 different ones for a stroke that you can barely see anyway, sitting there with the dropper and copying the hex #’s. Incomplete and cumbersome. Make the extra effort so we all don’t have to.

Your tutorials are brilliant, simply and gorgeous. Very good stuff.

Beautiful – exactly what I was seeking, on the first try. I notice it’s worth tweaking specifically for differing fonts, but the standard concept is here, and quite eloquently.

Thanks!

i had to thank this brilliant tutorial. i have use it.

Everytime I try to apply the texturizer on the new layer, it says I cant because the selected area is empty. help??

Hey, Try to fill this layer with a color first.

Really good tut, Thanks.

Luxury
But very beautiful.
I like it!

Thanks, good job!

Great tutorial!

Good job…………..

GOT DAM! this site is SWEET!!! thanks…

Man, your tutorials make me wish I had real Photoshop instead of just Elements. Because most of the applications you do with Layer Styles aren’t in Elements…hmm but CS2 is $600. Cool man, cool!

very atractive !!

wow you are a great help! thanks so much!

I read a lot of tutorials. Most of them leave out several critical steps. You didn’t. Thank you for rocking and properly showing me how to rock as well.

Well I must be missing something because I can add the layer styles but I cannot get the gradient editor…where exactly is that? I am looking for a gold text that I can use to add my business name at the bottom of my photos for copyright. I think the gold look is classy but I want something realistic looking. I was hoping this would work for me but I cant get past the first step with the text

Wanda, double click on the Background layer to make it Layer 0 instead of a flat background layer. Then you can apply a Layer style.

simply great

Nice Really Perfect

nice! job well done!

wow… very very very good!! Perfect!

I remembered the VIVARA´s logo.

VIVARA is a jewelry store from Brazil and his logo is very similar, like this tuto.

take a look at: http://www.vivara.com.br/

Nice effect, but it would have helped it the hex color values would have been listed.

i can-t do it…..!!!!!!!

LoL So I attempted this tutorial and I created what looks like fools gold, but I will try again with different colors. Thank you Fabio!

Fabio im quite impressed im seeing you alot on here your work is of a good standard keep it up

Again another great tutorial. I am a big fun of your work and always come back. Thank you again, Vitalia

It doesn’t work. I’m a beginner so I didn’t get what you meant by “apply a Layer Style on the background layer.” I just made a new layer out of the background and by the time I got to the second step, it wouldn’t apply a texturizer because “the selected area is empty” on the new layer. If I DON’T make a new layer and try it on “Layer 0″ which is the background layer, it doesn’t do anything. Help, please?

How did everyone get this working so easily?

“Create a new Layer and apply Filter>Texture>Texturizer. Make sure that the foreground color is white and the background is black. After that, change the Blend Mode to Multiply.”

When I do this I receive an error telling me “THE SELECTED AREA IS EMPTY”

Wow! That’s gorgeous! I just used it

Great! Many thanks

This text looks so cool, and I would love to learn how to do it. I am a newbie.
I have problems when I get to step 2

OK! step 2 done! =)

Now its step 4 im struggling with, I cant get the gold color witch one of the “presets” in Gradient color did you guys use. Help me please

Really helpful!
But it would be much better for a rookie like me to know the hex colour of the gradient.
Thanks anyway.

Nice text effect and all but you should add the codes for all the colors because mine didnt look as good as yours..

Love your tut! But what’s that font called that you used? And I don’t mean Times New Roman, the font for the one under Vivavida text.

Hello!

Is not a good tutorial. You do not specify what colour you use to to made gold layer style.

thanks its sooooo good

Very simple lesson! thanks! but it would be better with exact color #.

thanks its good

Nice one, thanks,

By the way – WOOHOO LAST POST!!!

-_-’

very simple and elegant effect

I have to agree with some people who said, that is not the best tutorial … u should have said what exact colours u used!

otherwise nice

I found a very nice tutorial!!
It´s the best of the world!!
The effect is perfect! Thanks!!!

Brilliant tutorial. Perfect for soft-core designers like myself.

PS I figured out that you can make a nice glassy effect if you use this method in silver then change the layer style to hard light.

I’m currently using this effect on my website’s “coming soon” page.

this site is so fucking awsome but damn i love it. im learning so much. im at work and wanna go home so bad to try my new tutorials

Your Message…The only thing missing are the gradient numbers even a small alteration can make a difference.

A.F.

what are the gradient color numbers please?

This is so helpful! Thank you so much for posting this. Great tutorial. I’m a Photoshop novice, and your tutorial helped me make the lettering for a banner that I need to produce, and it looks great. Thank you!

Filter>Texture>Texturizer – is not active….

This effect is awesome! Thanks fr the tutorial

Could anyone send colors for silver version of it?

thanks man !

what is the color code used on the text ??? how can you leave this part out ???

absolutely wonderful tut Fabio.

And people.. this is supposed to be a GUIDE.. do a little color experimenting on your own!

“gold layer style” contains from….? what color?

it’s amazing.
thanks

U RE TOO GOOD

Thanks a lot

tell me please >> what’s the code colour you used

Thank You. This is classy stuff…! I’m gonna yse it on my website.

The tutorial is great but one thing you have not mentioned (which is MOST important) is the “colors”. What color did you use for gradient on text, what colors on the stroke. Nothing mentioned.

Without colors I could not follow the tutorial

Brilliant ….

Thanks a lot for sharing it

the best page for effects

Very useful
Thanks very very much
well done
Thank you

NEED THE COLOUR CODES FOR GRADIENT ETC.. !!!!

Great tutorial, however it’s missing the color codes. What I did was copy the picture and paste on photoshop and used the eyedropper tool to get the color.

Brilliant, thank you so much.

i think this is the shortest tut ever!!!
nice

beatiful

Great tut but I can’t get the V to flip without changing all the letters. I rasterized the text layer as mentioned in a previous post and then used the marquee selection tool to select just the letter V that I wanted to turn into an A. All of the text flipped… Help!!!

Perfect!

you did excellent job.

great tut. thank u!

Great effect!

Was wondering what font you are using underneath the TIMES NEW ROMAN font?

Btw EXCELLENT work guys – keep it up

I love this! This tutorial helped out of my clients misery.

Thanks!

nice, five thumbs up man…..

Whats the font for the wordd “abduzeedo”?

what are the color codes?