Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 120 Adding brushed copper effect, part of Deke's Techniques.
In this movie we're going to take that fairly cool-looking but ultimately…colorless brushed metal effect that we created in the previous movie and we're…going to upgrade it to this more ambitious brushed-copper effect, complete with…this gradient stroke, as you can see.…So we're going to start things off in the brushed metal image. And I've got my…editable text layer selected. I'll go ahead and expand the Layer Effect so I can…see them. Then drop down to the fx icon, click on it, and choose Color Overlay.…That red obviously is not going to work for us, so click on the color swatch and…dial in a Hue value of 25 degrees, a Saturation of 75%, and a Brightness of…50%, then click OK. That ends up giving us kind of a red overlay. We want to mix…it in with the gray of the letters.…
And to do so, change the Blend Mode from Normal to Linear Light. That of course…gives us a very hot red effect to make a copper reduce the opacity value to 20%.…Next we want to add the gradient stroke, so click on the Stroke option, which is…
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1/13/2011Skill Level Intermediate
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