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Summary: Adjust shine of your Photoshop chrome letters with "curve" command. Learn about filters and tools used to create Photoshop special effects text in this free Photoshop tutorial from a professional graphic designer.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"Well, now. We've created some chrome text with a little bit of lighting. So, let's have a look at what we've got here. As you can see, I've switched up my lighting just a little bit--a directional light shining right from the top at full intensity. Kind of corrected my problem, giving it a little bit of a look that I was-more of a look I was looking for. Now let's-you know what? Let's go to "Curves." And, actually, you know what? We're going to create a new layer. We'll just do a new adjustment layer. "Curves." Hit "Ok," like so. What we're going to do is, we're going to try to-we're going to give this a little bit of an effect here. So, what we're going to try to do is, do something along these lines, like so. Now, of course, we can adjust this however we want to, to kind of get that look we're looking for. And, as we adjust this here, that's a little too dark. Let's take it up. Let's take our intensity up here. Actually, I'm kind of liking that right there. And, as you can see, it's given it that nice, shiny look that we're looking for. So there's your chrome text, looking very nice. So, play around with it. Have fun and enjoy."
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