Gold in Photoshop
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- georgesIII
I've been trying to get a good gold finish,
but even if I play with the gradient and blending modes, It still looks like crap,How do you produce a nice gold finish?
- Continuity0
Comme ceci?
- ESKEMA0
lots of reflections
- bumdrizzle0
- just find some on the internet.bumdrizzle
- +1 find a good image, work it into your designThelonious_Funk
- maikel0
- I'm not down with that font in Happy Birthday. Could you try Arial Black? It really needs to pop.Continuity
- YEAH + congratulations is too 3dgeorgesIII
- foz0
as a cymk breakdown? or as a visual effect?
- inteliboy0
noise + gradient - rather then that marbly texture - works well.
- georgesIII0
as a CMYK breakdown,
working on a logo which needs to be gold,
but all it looks like is a fake finish
- bumdrizzle0
if the logo is to be printed in gold, print it in metalic ink, or get it foil stamped. not much point trying to recreate it on screen.
- Unless the client insists, then it's an uphill battle to try and convince the otherwise.Continuity
- nah, the logo will be printed in digital, but needs to be given in vector formgeorgesIII
- well, he could try and explain that gold isn't a colour. but yeah, uphill battle.bumdrizzle
- oh... digital. you are fucked. you are going to end up with brown or yellow or somewhere inbetween.bumdrizzle
- Yup, you're fucked, georges. Let us know how therapy afterwards goes, will you?Continuity
- I like the term "on screen" for the printing press...ogduhsign
- monospaced0
Problem is, georgesIII, is that gold isn't necessarily a color at all, it's a metal with other surface qualities. Even attempting to see it as a simple cmyk breakdown is problematic; you'll just end up with something between mustard yellow and brown. It needs a reflective and metallic quality to pass. Good luck.
- benfal990
monospaced resume it all.
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- yep, done and donemonospaced
- but, it was only after 6 minutes...not like it was hours or daysmonospaced
- ********0
You need to build it logically thinking in terms of diffuse (base colour), specular (highlight colour), lighting and reflections (interaction with environment).
- gold reflects light and changes according to what's placed around it < this needs to be considered.********
- gold reflects light and changes according to what's placed around it < this needs to be considered.
- georgesIII0
I'm so about to outsource this job,
- if the brief says 'gold effect' somewhere surely you are better off outsourcing.maikel
- Do you need a job maikel ;PgeorgesIII
- i knew you would like my wordart... i am very good at space backgrounds too....maikel
- flashbender0
As everyone else said gold is not really possible in photoshop. Especially if they are talking about gold leaf or stamping - the closest you can come is either a texture/color overlay or some of this silly 90s style over-the-topness
- flashbender0
- Mmm, complete with sublime lens flare goodness.Continuity
- only the best for this threadflashbender
- luckyorphan0
Every metallic surface has a base color to it that is then affected by its having a slick, semi-reflective surface.
As a purely solid color, gold does not appear "gold" but rather somewhat of a mustard seed or yellow ochre. In order to get a metallic effect, you must do one of the two options:
1. Model or render it to give the type a metallic finish (hilights, shadows, reflections, etc.) or
2. When it comes to printing the logo, only use metallics. Refer to your Pantone metallics swatch book for the proper color, of course. If you print only four-color, it will appear quite dull unless you bling the crap out of it—at which point it will look quite cheesy.And if you need to outsource it, feel free to send it over. I'll be happy to help.
- echo...echo...monospaced
- you're saying 3D render the metallic surface AND use metallic inks? LOL that's funny shitmonospaced
- oh, 1 of 2 options...hehemonospaced
- << for mono: http://www.wired.com…luckyorphan
- ...and while I understand I repeated some posts above, I didn't feel they explained enough. Cheers.luckyorphan
- thanks, I forgot how important reading was. I usually only read 50-100pages a daymonospaced
- Reading the same page of Dick and Jane over and over and over doesn't count, mono.detritus
- honest0
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