Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Color Plate 46-1 to see how ordinary black type turns into copper type.

Here’s how to pour some molten copper into your type or logo:

Choose File>New to create a new document.

Make it rather large, say 3 inches high by 5 inches wide, and set it in RGB color mode with a white background.





Set the Foreground color to black.

The quick way to do this is to press D.





Use the Horizontal Type tool to create some type.

The type should be large for this effect to work best. For my example, I’m using the Wingdings font set at 250 points, as shown in Figure 46-12. You should now have two layers: a white Background layer and a type layer.




Figure 46-12: I’m turning this phone from black to copper.






Right+click/Control+click the type layer in the Layers palette and choose Rasterize Layer from the menu.





Rename the layer, if you want.


For this example, I’ve named the layer Telephone. That’s how I refer to the layer for the rest of the steps.





Choose Filter>Sketch>Bas Relief.





Use the sliders to select settings in the Filter Gallery, as shown in Figure 46-13.




Figure 46-13: Use the sliders to set the Bas Relief filter.






Move the Detail slider to 10.





Set Smoothness to 1.





Use the Light drop-down list to select Top Left.







Click OK to close the Filter Gallery and apply the filter to the Telephone layer.





Click the Add Layer Style button at the bottom of the Layers palette and choose Drop Shadow from the menu.





In the Drop Shadow Structure area, select Normal from the Blend Mode drop-down list and set the Distance to 20 pixels, as shown in Figure 46-14.




Figure 46-14: Use the settings in the Structure area to shape the drop shadow.






Select the Inner Shadow check box in the Effects column.

The default Inner Shadow settings work just fine, so there’s nothing to change there.





Click the words Color Overlay to view those settings and put a check mark in the Color Overlay check box.





Select Overlay from the Blend Mode drop-down list and set the Opacity to 75%, as shown in Figure 46-15.




Figure 46-15: Set the Color Overlay to look like copper.






Click the color square to open the Color Picker and select a coppery color.

For my example, I created a coppery red-orange by setting R=208, G=111, and B=52.







Tip

If you want to create a different metal, use a different color overlay. For instance, you can use a medium blue to create the look of steel or yellow for the appearance of gold.






Click OK to close the Color Picker and return to the Layer Style dialog box.





Click OK to close the Layer Style dialog box and apply the styles to the Telephone layer.

The image now looks coppery, but it doesn’t shine. (See Figure 46-16.) You can fix that with the curves and the Chrome filter.




Figure 46-16: The image looks copper-colored, but it doesn’t shine — yet.






Choose Image>Adjustments>Curves or press Ctrl+M/z +M.

The Curves dialog box opens. (Refer to Figure 46-8.) Notice that a straight line runs from the bottom-left corner of the grid to the upper-right corner of the grid.






Click on the line in four places from left to right to create four evenly spaced points.





Drag the first point up, the second point down, the third point up, and the fourth point down.

The plotted line should look something like the one shown previously in Figure 46-9. Don’t worry if it isn’t exactly the same.





Click OK to close the Curves dialog box and apply the curves Telephone layer.





Choose Filter>Sketch>Chrome.





In the Filter Gallery, set the Detail to 5 and the Smoothness to 5.





Click OK to close the Filter Gallery and apply the Chrome filter.

Your image should now look like shiny copper, as shown in Figure 46-17.




Figure 46-17: The telephone now looks like molten copper.