Solid Gold Effect: Making a Realistic Metallic Image

Here's a comprehensive method for making an image (or a part of one) appear to be made of solid gold. The method shown contains a number of 'tricks' you can use in this. It also is non-destructive, which means you can go back later to tweak the shades of gold, the darks and lights, and so on.
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