Go easy the first time, you are laying down the base of the tones here. (In the past, I had you apply a curves adjustment directly onto the Type, but I think it’s a better idea to use an adjustment layer because we can change things later and keep tweaking until we get the perfect result.)Ĭreate a curves adjustment layer and make a curve like the one in the example. On earlier versions of Photoshop, it’s under Artistic Effects>Artistic Step 5 This is found under Filter>Gallery Filter> Tip: Hold down the shift key to constrain to 90 degrees.Īpply the plastic wrap filter. Select the gradient tool (Linear, fore to background) and drag from the top to the bottom of the image. Select a dark gray for your foreground color and a light gray for your background. Plastic wrap works as a Smart Filter, but you can’t get the correct result with the gradient without rasterizing the type.)
(NOTE: If you are going for a cleaner look and are going to skip the plastic wrap step, you won’t need to rasterize the type. This converts your text to an object, so you can apply all the filters to it. Step 1Ĭreate your type layer, or import your shape that you want to turn into shiny chrome Render type: right click/mac Cmd click the name on the layer and select “rasterize type”. Not only is the result cleaner now, the steps take advantage of features that have been addied in the the more than 10 years since I wrote the original tutorial, I hope you enjoy this updated tutorial as much as you did the original. I have just re-written the entire tutorial to update it for modern times.
It was one of the very first Photoshop chrome tutorials on the web, and oh boy was it copied everywhere. You might remember the original chrome text tutorial from here at PhotoshopCAFE.
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