Today I would like to show you how to create a simple metallic effect for a text.

1. Creating Text

First let's create our Photoshop document. I'll use size 500 x 200 (width x height).

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Now let's write our text. Select your favorite font and write it onto your document. You can use every color you want, it will be changed later.

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If your text is written right click on your text layer and select "Blending Options. If it's done set these settings:

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Click there here it said "Click here" and set this:

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2. Final Words

And now you are done. You should have something like this:

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Now you can customize how ever you want. My outcome looks like this:



I hope you liked the tutorial and it was easy enough for everybody.