Photoshop Text Effects: Gold Plated Text
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Step 15: Add An Inner Glow
One last thing to do here before we exit out of the Layer Style dialog box and switch to the original text layer. We're going to add an Inner Glow effect to enhance our gold colors. To do that, click directly on the words Inner Glow on the left of the Layer Style dialog box to enable it and bring up its options:
Change the options that I've circled here:
First, change the Blend Mode to Multiply. Then lower the Opacity to 50%. Click on the color swatch directly below the word "Noise", which brings up the Color Picker. Enter R:232, G:128, B:31 to give us an orange color (this one was sampled from a photo of a gold brick) and click OK to exit out of the Color Picker. Finally, increase the glow Size to 15 pixels.
When you're done, you can click OK to exit out of the Layer Style dialog box. Your text should now look something like this:
Step 16: Add A Stroke To The Original Text Layer
We're done with the text copy layer at this point. Now we're going to work on the original text layer, so click on it in the Layers palette to select it. We're going to head back to the Layer Style dialog box once again, so click on the Layer Styles icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:
This time, select Stroke at the bottom of the list:
This will bring the Layer Style dialog box back up, set to the Stroke options. Change the options that I've circled below:
First, increase the stroke Size to 5 pixels. Then change the Fill Type from "Color" to Gradient. We're going to be using the same gradient colors for the stroke that we used on the text. Before we go setting gradient colors though, change the gradient Style to Reflected.