Step 22 Sample A Light Gold Color From The Text With The Eyedropper Tool

Grab the Eyedropper tool from the Tools palette or press I to quickly select it, and then click on one of the lightest areas in the text to sample that color. We're going to use that color for our sparkles:

Step 23: Select One Of The "Crosshatch" Brushes To Use As A Sparkle

With your light gold color sampled, switch back to your Brush tool again, and then once again right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) anywhere inside the Document Window to bring up the Brush options menu. Scroll down the list of available brushes until you come across one that looks like a fancy "X". If you have Tool Tips turned on in your Photoshop Preferences, you'll see that the brush is named "Crosshatch", as we can see here:

Step 24: Paint A Few Randomly Placed Sparkles Around The Text

With your brush selected and your sampled color ready to go, click in a few random locations around the text to add some sparkles. Change the brush size after each click to add even more randomness by using the right and left bracket keys to increase or decrease the brush size on the fly. Adding sparkles is fun, but too many is too many, so only add a few. A couple of larger ones and a couple of smaller ones should do it.

If you find your sparkles look too intense, lower the opacity of the "sparkles" layer. Here I've lowered mine down to 50%:

Once you've added your sparkles and lowered the opacity to your liking, you've completed the gold lettering effect!

Here's my final "Gold-Plated Text" effect result:

And there we have it!

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