Looking for a Good Gold and Silver Color for Text

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Dennis Hughes
Apr 23, 2004
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I’ve been trying to use a good gold color for the text in an image.

The best I have come up with is FFD409. Is there a better gold out there.

Are there any web sites or books that give this kind of information? I also need a good silver.

Thanks,

Dennis
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n8 skow
Apr 24, 2004
Have you tried a gradient?

Most of what gives gold and silver (or metal for that matter) it’s "look" is the way it reflects the light. Study a picture of either of those metals and you’ll see that their not one solid color…

n8

I’ve been trying to use a good gold color for the text in an image.
The best I have come up with is FFD409. Is there a better gold out there.

Are there any web sites or books that give this kind of information? I also need a good silver.

Thanks,

Dennis
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Mike Russell
Apr 27, 2004
Dennis Hughes wrote:
I’ve been trying to use a good gold color for the text in an image.
The best I have come up with is FFD409. Is there a better gold out there.

Are there any web sites or books that give this kind of information? I also need a good silver.

Here’s are a couple of tuts:
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/antgold/antgold.htm
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/jewel/jewel.htm

here are some others:
http://www.newtutorials.com/metal-text-tutorial.htm
http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/photoshop_tutorials/photosh op_tutorials/photoshop_tutorial47/photoshop_tutorial47.shtml

Also, check out the Photoshop WOW book for some procedures for making a variety of very shiny metals.

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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
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Dennis Hughes
Apr 28, 2004
Mike & n8,

Good leads. I will spend some time with the tutorials today.

Thanks,

Dennis

Dennis Hughes wrote:

I’ve been trying to use a good gold color for the text in an image.
The best I have come up with is FFD409. Is there a better gold out there.

Are there any web sites or books that give this kind of information? I also need a good silver.

Thanks,

Dennis
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kaispowertools
Apr 28, 2004
Dennis,
a tutorial is fine, but I would recommend the use of KPT 5 Shapeshifter or KPT 6 Gel for metallic text.

The following photograph of a pewter set was imported into KPT Gel as an "environment"

http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/tweaked_gel/selandia_pewter_ gel.html

and used to fill the following text selections:

http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/tweaked_metallix/amenfoto_va ri_gel.html

The interesting aspect of the filter is that it reflects and refracts differently depending on the shape, width and angle of the font.

This text here started as a photograph of a plate of sushi imported into KPT Gel, filled the text selection and re-filtered within the same text selection in KPT Shapeshifter for bevel control, lighting direction, texture overlay and shadow position and softness:

http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/tweaked_metallix/amenfoto_su shi.html

This silver text was done using selection inside shapeshifter and importing custom masks for texture and metallic environment for the material:

http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/tweaked_metallix/silver_text .html

This gold text was done in essentially in the same way, the difference being that the mask overlay used a blue color assigned to it:

http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/tweaked_metallix/amenfoto_bl ue_and_gold.html

Of course the metallic text can be used without any texture, I just personally don’t have any interest in creating anything that simple…

I hate to contribute any business to Corel, but the fact is, the KPT Collections suite is a hell of a bargain at US$99.00, although you can find it on ebay for much less. KPT 5 alone is even cheaper.

Hope this helps.

Adrian

http://www.amenfoto.com

"A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Nerds."

Dennis Hughes …
Mike & n8,

Good leads. I will spend some time with the tutorials today.
Thanks,

Dennis

Dennis Hughes wrote:

I’ve been trying to use a good gold color for the text in an image.
The best I have come up with is FFD409. Is there a better gold out there.

Are there any web sites or books that give this kind of information? I also need a good silver.

Thanks,

Dennis

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