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August 25th, 2008 - Categories: Design, PS Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial: Colored Chrome Text Effect

We’ve seen many photoshop tutorials showing how to create the chrome text effect. In this tutorial we will go a step further and create a colored chrome text effect.

First we need a bold rounded font. We can get a free one from urbanfonts.com. Let’s pick Adira Display. Then create a new file. Dimensions should be 500px x 500px. A dark gray background is just fine. Don’t pick black as we are going to adjust that part later with an adjustment layer. Write the world BIG in a new layer with font size of 190pt approx. Like the image below:

Double click on the font layer to bring up the layer styles window. Click on Gradient overlay and create the gradient that you will see on the following image.

We will need 6 colors and the values (from left to right) are:
1. #bedeec
2. #bcb7d7
3. #f0c9d7
4. #f5c8b5
5. #f5f2ca
6. #dff3fe

Now we should have the following image:

Back in the layer styles click on Satin and enter the following settings:

And now we should have something like this:

Now we are going to apply the following styles. Inner glow, Outer glow, Inner Shadow and Drop Shadow. Let’s see the settings for each one of them.

Inner glow

Outer glow

Inner shadow uses a custom Contour setting which can be seen in the following image:

Drop Shadow

Great. You should now see something like this:

It looks OK but we can improve it. Actually it doesn’t look like chrome yet. We need to apply the following Bevel and Emboss style to get there. Let’s see the settings. The custom Contour can be found on the following image too:

And we should get this:

Ah. That’s better. A bit darker would do the trick don’t you think? Let’s do it then. Go to Layer -> Add Adjustment Layer -> Exposure and enter the following settings:

Let’s see our final result:

Really nice effect don’t you think?
Hint: If you remove the gradient layer now, you get a really nice black and white chrome effect like this:

Got a better result? Just give us your link!

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Comments

  1. Ryz

    December 12, 2008

    Wow nice job! really nice effect!

  2. mich

    December 30, 2008

    so nice! i love it!:)

  3. fghfd

    January 13, 2009

    how do i get the adira display on photoshop?

  4. INSIDER

    January 30, 2009

    GREAT EFFECT AND TUTORIAL but on CS4 I dont have:Go to Layer -> Add Adjustment Layer -> Exposure as you state at the end to darken the effect, only: Layer -> New adjustment Layer -> Exposure…but completely different settings there?

  5. DiFFusse

    February 1, 2009

    Is the best tutorial .
    * wery thxx from uu *.

    DiFFusse’s last blog post..[Pyetje] per altervista

  6. brittany

    February 11, 2009

    i reallt likethis is i just dont no how to get the same type of font they used for the sample because i couldnt find it on photoshop and i didnt feel like downloading it and all. so idk. but i really like!!!! :)

  7. Boiyah

    February 14, 2009

    Awesome… i tried it differently bt using this tutorial!! couldnt believe it!!
    awesome

  8. Rain Man

    March 2, 2009

    Insider If U Look Above The Layers Panel Theres A Load Of Icons One Of Them Is Exposure There In Alphabetical Order Its There

  9. design king

    March 4, 2009

    Great post, thanks for the info

  10. Ronen

    March 5, 2009

    Great tutorial!
    Thanx!!!

    Ronen’s last blog post..עיצוב פונטים מנייאקרס

  11. Imomu16

    March 8, 2009

    this was wonderfull…i mimiced it and worked to me. thank you..

    Imomu16’s last blog post..80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources

  12. Ahmed Dashti

    March 19, 2009

    Hey! Thanks for the tutorial. You helped me a lot! ;)

  13. professional photo retouching

    March 21, 2009

    nice way to manipulate text!

  14. professional photo retouching

    March 21, 2009

    nice tutorial

  15. Shota

    March 25, 2009

    Thank you man! great job!

  16. fahad

    April 29, 2009

    great post

  17. Lizzie

    July 29, 2009

    Really cool, i used to make this:

    http://kiksu.irc-galleria.net/h/images02/00/45/09/60/108541023.jpg?h=1e6fe3769871f1e6a02dd67ab98167ff7b520bdd&t=1249054074

  18. Kaplang

    August 10, 2009

    wow really cool effects :) thanks for the tutorial :)

  19. yarenay

    August 15, 2009

    verry veryy easy :) thanks

  20. John

    August 18, 2009

    Nice yes, pity the instructions are not at all accurate for Photoshop CS3. They don’t work and the pics are wrong and therefore cannot be followed

  21. anees

    August 24, 2009

    awsome !
    great job !

  22. Dave

    August 26, 2009

    I have a major problem :> I dont know were to but the downloaded front in the photoshop file :S. Could someone tell me?

  23. N-Designs

    September 4, 2009

    great effect. thanks

  24. Nandkumar

    November 2, 2009

    I imprase on you lovely JOB

  25. shomy

    December 27, 2009

    Great post…….thanks a lot…!!! ;)

  26. trevor

    January 31, 2010

    how do i get the gradient to only affect the middle part. mine affectst the whole text..

  27. LIC India

    February 3, 2010

    Amazing! Thanks for sharing these :)

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