Lighting Effects for Chrome Text in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to make our text just a little bit shinier. So, what we're going to do is, we-as we can see, we have the Alpha One copy here selected that has all of our fade effects. What we're going to do is, we're going to select our chrome copy now. And it's going to bring it up, like so. And what we're going to do is, we're going to add a lighting effect to this. So, let's go to "Filter," and let's go to "Render." Let's go to "Lighting Effects," like so. And it's going to ask us to rasterize the type, and we're going to go ahead and hit "Ok." So, let's say, let's turn on directional here. Just going to move this up a little bit. Going to change this guy around just a little bit. You know what? Nevermind. We'll just do it on spotlight. There we go. Zoom it out some so we got a lot going on here. Let's go ahead and grab this and bring him over, like so. There we go. Now what I'm going to do is, let's see, this looks pretty good here. We're going to leave our intensity at thirty-five. Our focus, we'll just leave it wide, like so. There we go. Actually, turn that off, but we won't. But we're going to leave it on. Let's say, we're going to take our shiny up a bit. Let's take it up into the mid-forties. Let's take it to fifty. There we go. And material, we're going to take this more towards metallic. Going to take it all the way. There we go. And, of course, our exposure. We're just going to kind of leave it in the middle here. We'll actually take it up just a little bit, just a hair. More towards the positive side than the negative. And we're going to have a texture channel here. And we're going to use our Alpha One copy that we made. And, as you can see, it's going to pop out a little bit now. And that's what we're going to want. So, we're going to leave it at fifty percent on "White as High" and "Mountains." And we'll go ahead and hit "Ok." And, as you can see there, it's chromed our text up, or it's given us some shadows here. I think I'm going to go back and readjust that lighting so it's filling up more of this than just that part there. So, what we'll do is, while I'm doing that, we'll pause here and pick this up in the next part."