Regal Gold Text Effect in Photoshop (Layer Styles Trickery)

Used improperly, layer styles can make your text look amateur and gimmicky, but if you take your time and refine your settings, you can create professional looking, 3D text quickly and easily.
This video will teach you how to create a regal gold text effect in Photoshop using Layer Styles.
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[@Boxxxxxxxxx]

Turned out majestic. Very well paced. Enjoyed it!

[@ericaalexander]

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you. Adding this one to my box of tricks.

[@innerpeacemkd504]

VERY USEFULL TUTORIAL. STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. Thanks from MACEDONIA !!!

[@jessfdes]

Thank you for making it so easy to understand! Really enjoy your tutorials.

[@NewLayer]

Thanks! I'm glad it helped :)

[@creativethinking1739]

All good, clear, precise and works!

[@claudioabado3317]

Wow! You guys know your Layer Styles, I can tell -- thank you!

[@NewLayer]

Thanks! I used to have a website dedicated to Layer Styles specifically, so I like to think I have a good grasp on them :)

[@garisalazar5675]

Really fantastic tutorial, very clever, informative...Thanks so much!!! looking forward for more informative tutorials... 5 star for this one!!!

[@NewLayer]

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I'd love to do more text effect tutorials like this.

[@AchimTheEagle]

The best looking golden text from a ps tutorial so far! :)

[@NewLayer]

Glad to hear that!

[@jollyjm]

Great video. Learned a lot. Saving the effect for later use is very useful, learned how to do that too. Thanks a lot!

[@NewLayer]

Thanks! You’re welcome. And it’s definitely a good candidate to save for re-use in the future :)

[@brittanypacheco8828]

Very cool tutorial! Thanks for sharing.

[@NewLayer]

Thanks Brittany, hope it comes in handy for you :)

[@AxelAxe]

Nice tutorial man. Great work.

[@enochhasrisen]

OUTSTANDING! ... GRADE A.

[@elaiyabharathim3538]

Thank you so much ......... you are such a lifesaver !!!!

[@a.kay.c]

Incredible, thank you

[@NewLayer]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it :)

[@LA_C0C0]

Great tutorial! Definitely helped out!

[@NewLayer]

Glad to hear it!

[@muhammadnuralikohar1713]

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[@bradmartin7598]

Thanks for this. It's a very classy effect.

[@NewLayer]

Glad you like it! This is still one of my favorites after all these years.

[@nakleh]

Well done, JT.

[@gr8_22-15]

Great stuff man!

[@NewLayer]

Thanks! Glad you liked our first video :)

[@ankitsinghbhati4348]

thank you so much....

[@Steve931000]

Love it

[@guerreromarka.2201]

Thanks it really helps.

[@NewLayer]

You’re welcome, thanks for checking it out

[@yaya-pz7mi]

Very good tutorial, thank you

[@NewLayer]

yaya thanks, glad you liked it.

[@aDenstech]

Loved it and subscribed the channel, kindly do the dripping effect on text. Thanks

[@MauroGraphics]

Very good man!

[@jenniferrathjensdlrt3661]

you are awesome!! Thank you!!

[@NewLayer]

No you are! :)

[@rapterrider7657]

Its awesome and informative video man its soo gud

[@benjamincoombs8043]

Hey, this is great! Thank you.

[@NewLayer]

Thanks! I really like this effect, so I'm glad others do too.

[@NewLayer]

@@benjamincoombs8043 If you're sure the settings are the same, is your canvas the same resolution in pixels, and is your DPI 72? You can DM me on Insta @newlayercom with a link to download your PSD if you want and I can take a look.

[@notmyname8527]

Love it. Will make an action for this as there are too many steps.

[@NewLayer]

I sell the base style (and tons of other Photoshop Layer Styles) on my design website here: designpanoply.com/individual-layer-styles/regal-gold-photoshop-style

[@bottlemoodi]

Thanks

[@lxic-bz8hf]

great tutorial, thank you

[@NewLayer]

You are welcome!

[@vincentsequeira3723]

Thanks.

[@NewLayer]

You're welcome!

[@CodeMaSsTeR]

Great Video! I do have a question, I am getting some horizontal lines on the letters as I enlarge them, do you know why?

[@NewLayer]

That sounds odd, I've honestly never seen horizontal lines appear that I can remember :-/ If you shared a link to a short screencast I could take a look.

[@maheshwickramarathna8081]

great

[@kayodeayoola4174]

What I might want to learn next? ...... any other areas of design ..... I've subscribed to your channel ...... You do have interesting content 🙂

[@NewLayer]

Thanks, glad you liked it. I'm focusing more on photo/video and lighting lately, but will surely add more design tutorials in the future :)

[@MrArshad73]

Very good

[@NewLayer]

Thanks

[@maasign8180]

IS THE VERY NICE BRO

[@robinet8ic]

what do u change to make the light come from the center of the text? thanks!

[@dineshrewari9216]

Great illustrating Royal Gold text Effect, Useful for creating Effective Logos, Thanks

[@NewLayer]

You're welcome, thanks for your comments :)

[@user-oc6pj4kz4m]

best thank you

[@NewLayer]

You're welcome!

[@user-oc6pj4kz4m]

@@NewLayer In fact, some things just can't be done by looking at the tutorial by others. Because they are hiding certain things. But your presentation can clearly learn something. Thanks again.

[@chrispysaid]

Ah, my favorite kind of tutorial. "Let's get started. Before we get started,"

[@NewLayer]

My favorite kind of comment, petty and worthless.

[@chrispysaid]

@@NewLayer I disagree, there's some comedic value in it. And it was done in good fun! But you took it to a dark, stern place. Now _nobody's_ having fun. Toss a Levels adjustment on your New Layer and bring the whites up a bit, you need to lighten up!

[@NewLayer]

​@@chrispysaid I disagree, my comment had some comedic value in it, and it was in good fun. You took it to a dark, serious place. Now you're not having fun.

[@prasadv9186]

super bro

[@NewLayer]

Thanks, glad you liked it.

[@darkmanordesigns9791]

Very informative video, only thing is you go SOOO fast! I love the effect though! Thank you!

[@NewLayer]

Thanks, glad you liked it. You can always pause and rewind 5-10 seconds at a time with the left arrow on your keyboard, or set the video playback speed to .5X or .75X if you REALLY want to hear a monotone voice :)

[@m.s.sriram2939]

It's very useful. Thank you bro

[@tessalia87]

Where is the properties tab in Cs5? I don't see it under Window menu or Preferences. Thanks in advance!

[@Bozdoganovic]

One little advice. Next time use ZOOM IN when you clicking somewhere. Briliant tutorial btw. Greetings from MACEDONIA.

[@draganfiscag4182]

What is the procedure of working, when we are just making an effect with the text, without having a background?

[@NewLayer]

You should be able to just skip all the background steps. Just keep in mind that this effect won't look as good/realistic without some kind of stylized background.

[@kornaxon3522]

Somehow this has GoT vibes. Nice!

[@NewLayer]

Thanks, that was my intention when I came up with this Layer Style a few years ago :)

[@bathorgh]

Btw , if you uncheck the Gradient Overlay after all done, it becomes silver :D Thank you sir, excellent tutorial video.

[@NewLayer]

Good call! Glad you liked the video :)

[@mvmoto6506]

I applied this method to a logo I'm designing which is not a text layer. It worked well but the bevel is rounding at sharp corners... do you have any idea on how to fix that so it doesn't curve? Please let me know

[@NewLayer]

Try changing the Technique under Bevel & Emboss in the Layer Styles dialog to "Chisel Hard" or "Chisel Soft". It will change the entire look though, so may not be what you're after. You can tweak the Size and Softness settings as well.

[@mvmoto6506]

@@NewLayer Okay so I figured out the issue... The tweak is producing the bevel from all sides of the object, not just one, so when its going around the sharp points like in a "V", it's creating rounded bevels... do you know of any way to apply this to only some of the edges and not all at the same time? Thanks either way!

[@NewLayer]

​@@mvmoto6506 It's hard to say for certain without seeing an example, but it sounds like you're trying to do more than Photoshop Layer Styles offers.

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[@stewartdouglas1164]

When I get to layer Styles and select Bevel and Emboss I don't get the same amount of Setting as you are getting - Technique, Direction Altitude etc

[@NewLayer]

I'm not sure, perhaps you're looking under Contour or Texture instead of the actual Bevel & Emboss area. It's definitely there as it hasn't changed in ~10 years within Photoshop.

[@stewdouglas01]

I'll check again?

[@NewLayer]

stewart douglas Let me know what you find. I don’t have any other suggestions unfortunately 🤔

[@stewdouglas01]

No worries, great tutorial. Exactly what I wanted. It kinda worked

[@nisoyl]

fucking awesome effect bro,thx a lot =)) this text effect could be a bit shiny for a better visual,but looks awesome anyway =DD now i learned new techniques about shadows :3 on your next tutorial video,put the colors code on screen that you are using or in description,but here goes my like of course o/ now i have a badass Lord of The Rings wallpaper for my desktop haha

[@NewLayer]

Haha, thanks for the support, glad you liked the video. I'll work on adding the color hex codes in future tutorials :)

[@nisoyl]

@@NewLayer yeeaahh thats greats,helps a lot who is watching your tutorials =DD

[@siemboi1]

Can you please make me one Text style for my Shop Name? You are 👍

[@user-kk1xm5zz6e]

For the light effect at the start why bother with the curves adjustment when you can just do a normal paint brush and change the blend mode?

[@NewLayer]

Because it looks different/more realistic in my opinion. There's like 10 ways to do a vignette and this is my favorite.

[@a.b.4052]

What kind of Serif are you using? Is there a download link for it?

[@NewLayer]

The font is just Trajan Pro, which you'll find in a lot of variations for free on places like dafont.com or fontsquirrel.com. Hope that helps :)

[@a.b.4052]

@@NewLayer THANK YOU!

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[@artreed8194]

Dang too fast for me, but I will come back when I'm a little faster. Thank you.

[@NewLayer]

You could set the playback speed to .5 or .75x on KZbin too :)

[@elianalia1082]

looks like bronze color

[@iskomaxmin]

very complicated

[@NewLayer]

Don't know what to tell you, you have to do these steps to create this effect, lol.

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

bits missed out again....