Gold crime tutoria

Step 1: Type your text put a selection around your text by holding the apple key and clicking once on the type layer.

Step 2: Go under the filter menu and choose save selection. click ok.

Step 3: Deselect, delete your type layer.

Step 4: Go under channels palette.( window channels) and click on alpha 1. Go under the filter menu under blur, and choose guassian blur and choose 1 pixel. click ok.

Step 5: Return to layers palette  and click once on bacground layer. go under filter menu, under render and choose lighting effect. when the dialog box apeeras change texture channel to apple click the click ok.

Steo 6: go under the image menu under adjustments and choose curves. chane the input to 186 and the output to 64. Click ok.

Step 7: go under the select menu and choose load selection. choose alpha 1 from the channel pop up menu. click ok.

Step 8: go under the slect menu, under modify, and choose expend. enter 3 pixels. click ok.

Step 9: press shift apple + s

Step 10: in the layers palette click once on the background layer, press apple+ A. press delete.

Step 11: deselct and click on the text layer in the layers palette, add drop shadow. click ok.

Step 12: add a color overlay. change the blend mode to overlay. click the color swatch. R= 208, G=169, B=16. click ok.