This
tutorial was
written for PSP v7, assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP and is
very easy to complete!
Begin
with a 400
x 300 black canvas. Set your foreground color to white
and
your background color to none/null.
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Choose
your text
tool and set the line width to 4. Click in your canvas to
activate
your text. I picked Broadview, size 72 and typed Gold with vector
and antialias checked. If you're satisfied with the size and
placement
of your text, convert to a raster layer.
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Use these
inner bevel
settings.
Finally,
use Artistic
Effects | Chrome
You can
create several
colors of metallic looking text by changing the color in the chrome
settings
or for even more fun, try Effects | Enhance Photo | Manual Color
Correction.
Drag a selection around your text in the left hand window, then choose
the Color Category that suits your needs.
Like the
reflection?
Duplicate your text layer, flip it, nudge it up under the original
layer
and then use the deformation tool to distort it. Lower the
opacity
of the deformed layer and you're done. There is a companion tutorial
that uses part of this idea. Same outline, but the center of the
text is filled.
Let me
know if I
can assist you in any way, thanks for taking the time to view and/or
try
my tutorial!
 
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