chrome and gold effect

[jens g.r. benthien]

nice way to produce a chrome or gold effect on type faces:

01. create a rectangle
02. create a sine curve, slightly larger than the rectangle
03. center the rectangle and curve
04. clone both
05. slice one rectangle with the curve
06. apply a gradient fill in the lower part
07. apply another gradient fill in the upper part
08. make bitmap copy (high resolution!!!!)
09. type your word
10. drop bitmap onto the word
11. adjust fill size, eventually stretch
12. apply bevel - very thin one with high contrast
13. apply shadow
if you select the appropriate colors, you can achieve either a warm, rich gold or a cool, sharp blue chrome effect - see below

ciao,
jens

[jens g.r. benthien]

nice way to produce a chrome or gold effect on type faces:

01. create a rectangle
02. create a sine curve, slightly larger than the rectangle
03. center the rectangle and curve
04. clone both
05. slice one rectangle with the curve
06. apply a gradient fill in the lower part
07. apply another gradient fill in the upper part
08. make bitmap copy (high resolution!!!!)
09. type your word
10. drop bitmap onto the word
11. adjust fill size, eventually stretch
12. apply bevel - very thin one with high contrast
13. apply shadow
if you select the appropriate colors, you can achieve either a warm, rich gold or a cool, sharp blue chrome effect - see below

ciao,
jens

[gwpriester]

Cool gold and chrome, Jen.

Gary

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[Soquili]

Jens, great effect! Thanks for sharing.

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[Soquili]

Many thanks.

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[killerwhale65]

hi,

i am trying to recreate this, but i dont understand what is meant by step 10: drop the bitmap on the text. How is this done?

thanks!

[Odat]

When you make the bitmap copy, it will appear in the Bitmap Gallery. There's a toolbar button that will open the bitmap gallery if it's not open, and I think the keyboard shortcut is F11.

If you click and drag from the bitmap gallery, you can drag the bitmap and drop it on top of the text object, which should set it to be the fill for that object.

Another way to do this would be to select your object, switch t the FIll tool, in the toolbar change the fill type to bitmap, and then there will be a drop down list in the toolbar that lists all of the bitmaps, and you can pick it from there.

[Hwy101]

nice way to produce a chrome or gold effect on type faces:

01.-Edited just to shorten -LOVE THE GOLD/CHROME!- 13. apply shadow
if you select the appropriate colors, you can achieve either a warm, rich gold or a cool, sharp blue chrome effect - see below

ciao,
jens

LOVE THE GOLD / CHROME -Drool- Keep 'em Coming - I Collecting them ALL!

Tom

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[killerwhale65]

If you click and drag from the bitmap gallery, you can drag the bitmap and drop it on top of the text object, which should set it to be the fill for that object.

Hi,
i can drag the bitmap onto my text, but it just stays on top of my text, it does not become the fill of the text. Your second option does work however.