In this tutorial, I will show you the steps used to create this unique splash gold typography in Photoshop. We will use several gold textures to form the base on the text – along the way, we will be using a number of image adjustments, dodge/burn tool, selection tool to aid our effort in creating this text.
Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)
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OK Let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
Step 1
Create a new document sized 1440px * 900px with black background. Load the background texture you downloaded and select a portion of it, copy and paste the selection over to our document. Re-size this new layer to fit our canvas size as shown below:
Use a big soft eraser, remove the following portions from this new texture layer:
Apply the following Curves adjustment layers as shown below:
and here is the effect so far:
Step 2
We will start working on the text in this step. Use the font we downloaded and type some texts on our document:
Select the text layer and move the selection over to the gold texture we downloaded, copy the selection:
Paste the selection to our document and cover the texts. Hide the original text layer and apply the following layer blending options to our gold texture layer:
Bevel and Emboss
Contour
Inner Glow
and here is the effect so far:
We can add some rough edges for our text. Grab the eraser with chalk setting:
Use this eraser to work on the edge as shown below:
and here is the effect so far:
Step 3
We can further add some gold texture onto our text. Go back to the gold texture image and use the quick selection tool to select a piece as shown below:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document, re-size and attach it to our text as shown below:
Repeat this process and add more gold pieces to our text:
Step 4
We will add some splash effect for our text in this step. Go to the gold texture and create a new layer on top of the background layer:
Use a splatter brush (you should find lots of them over the net):
Paint a splash on the new layer:
Select this brush pattern on the new layer:
Go back to the background layer and hit Ctrl + C to copy the selection:
Copy and paste the selection to our document, place the layer below the text layer and adjust its size as shown below:
Add some more splash pattern and you will have the following effect:
Step 5
We will add some bokeh effect to our texts. Load the stock into Photoshop and select a portion as shown below:
Copy and paste the selection to our document and cover our text. Use an small eraser tool as shown below:
Remove parts of the bokeh selection so the texts below can be revealed. Make sure you retain some of the lighting effects over the text:
Use the lasso tool to select another piece from the bokeh texture:
Copy and paste the selection to our text, and set the blend mode to “Hard Light”:
and here is the effect so far:
Step 6
We’re almost done! For final touches, we can flatten the image and apply some dodge/burn effect for our texts to increase its contrast:
We can also use the smudge tool to create some motions into our image:
Add a black and white adjustment layer on top:
Layer mask on this black and white adjustment layer (in red):
Change this blend mode of this black and white adjustment layer to “color dodge”:
and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)
That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy going through it and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.
Till next time, have a great day!
