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Monday, November 9, 2009

Photoshop provides designers with unlimited options for creating unique and attractive backgrounds. One of the most popular approaches is to create some type of textured background, and fortunately there are a number of helpful tutorials to teach you all the tricks you need to know.
You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

• 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures
• 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects
• 35 Tutorials for Mastering Photoshop Brushes
• 35 Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts in Photoshop

Texturing of Old Paper

Abstract Background of Colored Bars

The Ultimate Wood Texture Tutorial

Liquid Blood Background

Fabric Folds

Smooth Silk Texture

Creating a Wrinkled Paper Effect

Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop

Windows Vista Aurora Effect

Crumpled Photo Texture Tutorial

Creating Patterns in Photoshop CS2

How to Create Brushed Aluminum

Creating a Wood Texture

Creating a Metallic Background

Creating a Fur Texture


Creating a Gold Texture

How to Create Jean Cloth Texture in Photoshop

Creating a Grungy Metal Texture

Photoshop Marble Textures Tutorial Using Filters

Photorealistic Rock and Stone Textures

How to Create Hardwood Flooring with Wood Texture Bricks

Creating a Tile Pattern

Creating a Desert Texture

Creating a Metallic Floor Pattern

Creating a Leaf Texture

Texture of Black Bubbles Effects

Creating a Choppy Seas Effect in Photoshop

Water from Below

Rusty Surface Texture in Photoshop

Crumpled Paper Bag

Creating a Cool Brushed Metal Surface in Photoshop

Red Tissue

Clean Background Effect

Stone Texture

Wallpaper Background Texture

Satin Cloth Texture (video)

How to Add Scan Lines to Your Photo

Creating Plaid Patterns

Stone Texture

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.