What if SYS were light instead of dark?
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I love this work, sharing some nice tuts with all buddys from the net…..i think that even the work is hard, i’‘ll continue anyway just for the pleasure to share something with you :)
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1- For this tutorial, i’ll keep the subject simple, it’s about how to make a nice metalic text…...i know that there are a lot of ways, and i know some of them, but i’ll show you this one wich i found it really simple and attractive.
The size of the canvas will depand on how bold is your font, i simply used a font called “Sofacrome”.

2- Now Move on, open a photoshop document with let sa 400px/200px dimensions, white background that you will immediatly fill with black to have a good view later and type in some text with text tool. rasterize this layer and fill it with a gradient that going from up to down with these settings : Foureground #DEDEDE and the background color is #AEAEAE
If you done!! minimize your document apart we will back to it later…

3- now open a new document with the same dimensions 400/200px and take your rectangular marquee tool, select the half of the newly document, and draw on a good gradient with these settings :fourground #4B4B44 and background #828383 and make gradient inside that selection.

4- Now invert this selection : select—> invert or simply hit CTRL+SHIFT+I on the keyboard to invert your selection and change your colors like that :
Forground #828383 and the background to #A8A8A6 and make a gradient in this inverted selection from the bottom to top.

5- This shape or gradients will be our metalic effect in the text, but with some additions

6- You certainly will ask for the waved shape inside the text, how i made it?
Very easy just apply a wave filter to it : filter—>distort—>wave. and give it these settings. and keep the rest at default.

7- We want it to be waved just a little, not much, to give that good feeling to the text, OK!! so d’ont go crazy with the wave settings, or better try to find your settings that will figure out with something more nice!!!!

8- Now copy or cut this layer and close its document, we don’t need it anymore.
Back to your text, so give it a CTRL+Click his layer to bring up a selection around the text, and contract it by 1px by going to Selection—>modify—>contract.
This step of contraction is done in the case you have a very thick font, this contraction will give it a small bevel effect. But play around and find other ways!!!!

9- Now hit together : CTRL+Shift+V this is the past inside command, it will past our wayvy gradients into the contracted selection.That’s it!! i better let you push this thingy ahead to find out something great :) let me know, i love to see what you have done with it. ;)
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