Tutorial #6

This is a little quick and dirty tutorial.   It has very few steps and is very nice looking.  The Effect is called Pewter Chrome. 

Just follow the steps in order :).

1.)  Open a New Image, 500 x 200 pixels, white background.  Make both your foreground and background color white.

2.)  Pick a medium to thick font.   The thicker the better.  In this case Merlin Font 90pt Bold is used.  Thin fonts will not show the effect.

3.)  Go to Image then Effects then Cutout.  Fill with Interior Color should be unchecked.   Make the Shadow Color: Blue (any color except white will work),  Opacity 100 (the greater the number, the more the effect),  Blur:10,  and Horizontal/Vertical Offset: -1. 

4.)  Go to Image then Other than Hot Wax Coating. 

5.)  Drop a shadow if you wish or stop at step 4 if you dont.  Image then Effects then Drop Shadow.  Play with the settings to get a desired shadow.  In this case I used  Opacity:50, Blur:5, and Horizontal/Vertical Offset: 6.

6.)  As a side note have a darker background changes how the colors are percieved.  If you cut out the text and paste it in a new image with a black background it looks like this.  I also dropped a white shadow.

Crop your Image and You are DONE!

This Concludes Tutorial #6.

Any Questions?