Brass Nameplate in Photoshop

[Ascension]

There are many ways to do this, the most common is to make a bunch of your own color stripes, blur them, and rotate them. If you wanted something in silver rather than brass you could try one of the numerous brushed metal tuts on the web (there are hundreds). You could also mess around with the bevel on the text to suit what you want or even go all the way and do a lighting effects render (layer of 50% gray, add text, inner gradient stroke of 50% gray to black, merge layers, render lighting, set layer to overlay). All kinds of variations on this, play around and have fun with it.

Cheers, all.

[Midgardsormr]

Since the plate is all one layer with several layer effects and a gradient, might I suggest saving those settings to a Style so you can apply it to a new object with a single click?

Window > Styles, click the flyout button in the upper right corner, and choose "New Style." Give it a name, and now whenever you want that same kind of plate, no matter the shape, make the object, open the styles, and click on your custom style.

[torstan]

Great tute. I'll have to have a shot at this in Gimp.

[Korash]

Great tute. I'll have to have a shot at this in Gimp.

OHHH! Please and thank you!!

[Ascension]

I went ahead and put the layer styles and the psd file into a zip and added that to the first post.

[Immolate]

Wonderfully done Ascension. As I mentioned on the other thread, I spent a good bit of time with this today, mostly because I was trying to get a darker look. The trick turned out to be using different gloss profiles and playing with the courseness ratio on the main gradient.

Thanks for all of your hard work and another fantastic tutorial.