 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to create a chiseled or a hammered gold text look. A lot of people love to create text and make it in gold. It's very, very popular for branding and logos. I'll show you how to do it and give you that chiseled embossed look. Let's get started. I'm going to delete this layer and we'll start from scratch. Okay, first step, I've got a background layer here of some leather, some red leather part of me. The next step, if you're following along, you want to go to the toolbar, click on the horizontal type tool right there and now type in gold. All right, I am typing this in aerial because I think everybody should have aerial loaded up in one of their fonts. Let me just double check on that. Yeah, aerial bold. So yeah, if you're following along, just use aerial bold. Why not? Okay, the next step here is we want to now start changing the color and making it look pretty. So the first step, again, we're going to click on this effects, which is add a layer style and then you're going to see the option to add a color overlay. Left click on that. When you do that, you'll have the option to first off, select a color. Now, for me, I selected this one. It's 51 hue, 99 saturation, and 100% for the beast. So 51 H is a hue, saturation, brightness, right? So 51, 99, 100. Or if you want to use the hashtag code FFD801. All right, left click on it and hit okay. Also, you will notice that I have selected the multiply as the blending mode and I dialed the opacity down from the standard 100%, which is way over the top. I dialed it down to about 38%. So this looks pretty close. We're on our way. Okay, now let's go ahead and give the text a little bit of, let's give it some, some height, I guess you could say, let's put some shadows and height in it. The trick for that is to use bevel and emboss. Left click on bevel and emboss, and now you'll see that I've already dialed in my numbers, kind of what I want. But let me show you how it, what I've got selected. First off, you'll probably be selected at inner bevel as your first step. It is a cool looking effect. Don't get me wrong. But for me, I've gone with the emboss because that gives it a bit of height. It makes it looks like it's got some depth to it. Also, the standard is smooth, which is also really nice looking. But I've gone ahead and selected chisel hard, which gives me that nice tough guy chiseled look, just like my jaw. Just kidding, I wish. So for me, I've got the depth set to 100. I've got the direction. I'm going to set it to down. I had it set to up, but I actually think I prefer it when it's set to down. And you'll see here that I've got the size as 35 pixels. You can of course jack that up or jack that down as you see fit. I've got it at 35. And I've also got the soften from zero. I dial it up to about five. Now, the next thing you'll see here is I've got the angle set to 120. This is a standard look. This is what it comes set to. So you probably won't have to do much there for altitude. I've gone ahead and selected. I had it at 35 degrees. But as I go through here, I'm starting to kind of like the look. Wow, what's look do you guys like? I don't know. You know what? That's pretty good. Let's keep going through. Let's see what I like here. That's too far, obviously. Okay, I'm going to dial it back to 35 ish. Let's go with 32. But that way you guys can see that you can make some big changes there. Also, I've got the gloss contour set to this one here, which is ring. But it usually comes set to linear. And this is a very cool look, but it just doesn't have the shadows and the mid tones that I'd like. So, again, you can try out the different ones. If there's a special look you're going for, you might find it here. But that's a nice one too. But anyways, I've gone ahead and selected this one. And this is a default option. So that is ring. Also, for the highlight mode, I've gone ahead and selected linear dodge add. This is the brightest of them. And I've selected the double and highlight color as here. I've got the H value of 45, the S value of 95%, and the B of 59. Now, again, you guys can adjust that as you see fit. And maybe even darker might even be a little better. Let's go with a little darker. You know what? I'm going to go take it down a bit, because if you look really, really closely, there was a little bit of a halo or a ring around it. So let's go with 45, 160. That looks pretty good. And then, again, shadow mode, I've set it to linear bird burn, pardon me, not linear bird, but multiplies also a good one if you want a little lighter. But linear burn looks good. And for me, I like this color for the Bevel and Abauch shadow color. The shadow is 2890 and 26. Again, you can go ahead and adjust that as you see fit. Let's see here. That's actually, actually looks pretty good if I take some of these other colors. But anyways, you guys see how that works. I'm going to left click on OK. And that is pretty much all you need to do. There are a few other options. You can go ahead and add in some contour if you'd like. I kind of like it the way it is. But again, you can add in a little bit of an adjusted contour. You can also add in a stroke around it. That looks pretty good if I'm being honest. So I'll left click on that. I've got a one pixel stroke on the inside and also takes away some of the shadows on the outside. So let's see if I can do that. You know what? I like the inside. And honestly, like you can play around with this forever. But if I right click on that or left click on it, we have a chiseled embossed hammered gold text look, guys. That's all there is to it. Thank you for watching. I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.