Written By A-Z World
In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily create metal text, a popular effect widely used in video games and movie posters! It may seem like there's a lot of steps involved, but once you've done it a few times, creating the effect won't take you more than a few minutes from start to finish. To create the metal texture itself and apply it to the text, we'll be using a couple of layer styles, some filters, layer blend modes, and a clipping mask! I'll be using Photoshop CS5 for this tutorial but any recent version of Photoshop will work.
Here's the final result we'll be creating:
