Chrome Text

In this tutorial, i'll walk you through step by step in creating a nice chrome text effect. .

Chrome Text
Author: Nathan Ng Description: In this tutorial, i'll walk you through step by step in creating a nice chrome text effect. This tutorial shows you how to apply the effect to 1 big letter, but of course, you can apply this same technique to a whole word or some objects. You dont have to follow my steps exactly as described, each step can be modified to suit your taste. Note: I learnt this technique from robouk's tutorial and I liked it alot, too bad his site is dead for a long time now, so I re-create this based on what i've learnt from his. So much of the credit goes to him
	Create a new image (mine is 300x300) with a gray background (#64635C). Use the type tool to create your text and make it big so it fit the canvas. Im using Times New Roman. Now rasterize the text layer (Layer>Type>Rasterize or right click on the text layer in the layer pallete and select rasterize). Ctrl + Click on the text later to create a selection around the text. Go to the channel pallete and create a new channel.
	On the new channel, fill the selection with white then deselect (CTRL + D). Then go to filter > Blur > Guassian Blur and useraduis = 10 Then apply the Guassian Blur again, this time, use raduis = 5 Apply Guassian Blur again and this time use raduis = 3. One more time, and use raduis = 1 Now go back to the layers pallete and select the type's layer.
	Now with the type layer selected, go to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and use the following settings : CLICK TO VIEW Now go to image>Adjustments>Curves and use the following settings: CLICK TO VIEW Now apply the Lighting effects again (Filter > Render > Lighting Effects) and use the following settings: CLICK TO VIEW That's it, now if you want, you can apply the following drop shadow and stroke settings, this is how I came to the result you see to the left. DROP SHADOW and STROKE