Gold Chrome Tutorial

1.Type your text. Put a selection around your text by holdig down the apple key and clicking on your type layer.
2. Go under the select menu and choose save selection and click ok.
3. Deselect
4.Go under the Channels palette,(9 window-channels) and click on Alpha 1. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and shoose Gaussian Blur. Enter 1 px. Click ok.
5. Return to the layers palette, and click pnce on the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under render and choose ighting effecs. When the dialog box appears change texture channl to Alpha 1. Then click ok.
6. Go under the image menu, under Adjustment and choose Curves. Vhangr the input to 186 and the out put to 64. Then click ok.
7. Go under the select menuand choose load selection. Choose Alpha 1from channel pop menu. CLick ok.
8.Go under the select menu, under modify and choose expand. Enter 3 pixels. Click ok
9.Press shift+apple+j.
10.In the layer palette, click once again on the background layer. Pres Apple A. Press delete.
11.Deselct. Click on the text layer in your layers paltt. Add a drop shadow. CLick ok.
12.Add a color overlay. Change the blend mode overlay. Click the color switch. r=208,g=165 and b=16. Click ok.