Imperfection Gold (with how-to notes)

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

so i lied.... :roll:

i tortured myself with another PS tutorial and again it was pretty hard to recreate :gaah

and called it imperfection

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I love that bottom one with the gold. What is that font? As if I need more fonts but I want that one, lol

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

http://www.fontspace.com/akatype/akadora

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thank you SC...all downloaded and installed. :teeth

Mokonafan · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:28 pm **(#5)**

I agree with Molly, I like the text with gold better.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

thats too bad ladies, because the annoying gold gave me so much pain that i will not look at it again today :mrgreen:

and i like the darker version better :clap

its really simple:
i used 200px for the font size

there is an Inner Glow: Shrink: 1, Gaussian Blur: 10, Colour: #f9e698
an Outer Glow: Grow: 21, Feather: 25, Colour: white, Mode: Grain Merge 25%
a second Outer Glow: Grow: 10, Feather: 10, Colour: #dcce9f, Mode: Grain Merge 30%
Dropshadow: Gaussian Blur 16, Contour: Half Round, Colour: black

but the real kicker is the Bevel
here is the screenshot for the layerfx

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Akros · **Joined:** Jan 10, 2013 **Posts:** 863

molly wrote:

I love that bottom one with the gold. What is that font? As if I need more fonts but I want that one, lol

Me too!

Esper, beautifull result!! :clap

Really nice!
:bigthup

AnMal · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:23 am **(#8)**

i like the gold best too, but the darker one looks like it would be great for book covers - not too cheaply blingy.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

for the gold effect, download the gradient i attached

in the orignal PS tutorial, this gradient was a bit darker but as we havent got the right layermode i had to find another way of making it really shine
so i set the Mode to Addition and tweaked the gradient colours with the curves tool
this has already been updated in the gradient i attached

i think i stroked the gradient on Mode: Triangular Wave, in the original tutorial, they used a mode called diamond style, but i couldnt recreate that
http://webtiago.com/2012/06/perfect-gol ... photoshop/

apply a layermask so that you get a stroke - i used 3px thickness

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

I've seen this PS tutorial way back and I walked away. Kudos for trying it in GIMP, Esper

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

more support

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Esper wrote:

Inner Glow: Shrink: 1, Gaussian Blur: 10, Colour: #f9e698

i couldnt show this Inner Glow with an arrow as its almost invisible but fill a few gaps in the Bevel

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Finally Esper. My gold is a bit ragged on right, don't know why

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

molly, i think you did absolutely great !

about the ragged edges....

partly thats because of the contour, and i dont think there is much you can do
try playing with the 'Soften' option in the layerfx script

also dont make the font size too small
a lot of these texteffect look awful when the fontsize is small !

Graechan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:30 pm **(#14)**

imperfect perfection

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

very nice Graechan !

your version looks very clean, almost like porcelain with gold

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

i made a variation of the gradient, if you want a different look

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

That is beautiful Graechan.

Graechan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:09 pm **(#18)**

Mine was done using iccii,I just finished updating all his files

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

really ??

wow im impressed Graechan !

what do you mean with updating ?

Graechan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:44 pm **(#20)**

I fixed the border script and added a stroke script and an extra layer style, all other scripts were changed to use ENUM's e.t.c.

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