Metallic Text Challenge

[csehz]

From my July 2005 Xara Xone tutorial http://www.xaraxone.com/tutorials/jul05/index.html

Gary that is so great looking, thanks for reminding the link

[iamtheblues]

Here's my attempt, using a prismatic font, that comes in three parts, so that different fills can be applied to each.
Bob.

[theinonen]

Here is mine.

[wizard509]

[SCALEBACK666]

I posted one of my contributions on a couple of other forums and somebody on the other forum posted it on a phot/image sharing site.
This thread brings up another question, is text art better off done in portrait or landscape page settings? I always use landscape setting my self as it leaves more room for added effects.
BTW It was the word art on MSWORD8 that got me started and it finally led me to this. I've also found that adding a metallic effect to black makes it look more polished if 3d's added.

[Jimi King]

I tend to do chrome effects quite a lot. This uses the Chrome plug-in that sadly is no longer bundled with Xara.

[theinonen]

Another one.

[Jimi King]

I've finally managed to get a gold effect that I'm satisfied with. For years I've been trying to get a realistic fade that would depict metallic gold. This is the closest I've ever got. Mind you, always a work in progress...