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Golden Text using Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to turn any text into a golden text in easy to follow steps. In the end, we will save all our work to a new style so we could easily apply this to any layer -not just text- to turn it into gold!

1. Click File > New and choose the size that you want for the image.
2. Click "Set foreground color" and choose a light gray (e5e5e5), click the "Paint Bucket Tool (G)" and fill layer 1 then rename it to BG.
3. Select the "Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)", Make a rectangular selection a little smaller than the image, press (Ctrl+C), (Ctrl+V) to make a new layer of the selection and rename it to Marble.
   
4. Select the Marble layer, click "Add layer mask" located at the bottom of the layers window and choose "Pattern Overlay".
5. In the Layer Style window, choose "Light Marble" pattern. If you cannot see the "Light Marble" pattern then follow the red arrows to select "Rock Patterns".
   
6. Click "Drop Shadow" in the Layers Style window. Now, you should have the Marble ready for our golden text.
7. Click the "Horizontal Type Tool (T)", and type the text that you like. Notice, it does not matter what color you choose for the text as it will not appear.
8. Select both the text and the Marble layers by pressing the Shift key and clicking both of them in the layers window, click the "Move Tool(V)" and center the text layer by clicking "Align vertical centers" and Align Horizontal centers" located at the top tool bar of Photoshop.
   
9. Select the text layer, click "Add a layer style" > "Color Overlay". In the Layers Style window, choose a yellow color (f8f025) as the overlay color.
10. In the Layers Style window, click "Bevel and Emboss", choose "Inner Bevel" then follow the settings in the next print screen:
    
11. Still does not look like a golden text? Do not worry; we still have some work to do. Click the "Gloss Contour" to open the "Contour Editor" then set the mapping as the following image by clicking where you want to make a new handler then dragging the line until it looks like the following:
    
12. You should see the golden text by now, to make it look even better, click Contour under "Bevel and Emboss" then click "Drop Shadow" and set the shadow color to dark gray and follow the following image for the other options:
    
13. You can save all you have done as a new style by clicking "Add a layer style" > "Blending Options" then "New Style" and giving a name for your style for example: Golden Style.

Golden Text: