Simple Golden Text Effect

1. First create a new document in which you can make your text. I used a document size of 400 x 140 pixels.

Now make a background that will suit the text. I used this wood texture for my background.

2. Now write out your text with an olden-style sort of font. I used: Times New Roman, Bold, 42pt, #885f18.

There, that's your golden text! I'm just joking

Right-click the text layer in the layer's palette, use the following layer styles and options:

(Pattern: .pat - .jpg)

Wow, that was a few layer styles! But, you should now have a cool result like this:

Looking alright so far, but I like to add a few nice effects to it to finish it off.

3. To finish these kind of things off, I very often flatten the image, apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen, fade the sharpen a bit (Edit > Fade) then apply Filter > Render > Lighting Effects. I love it!

Thanks for reading this simple tutorial, if you want you can download my PSD file from here.