Monday, April 9, 2007

Join us as we walk through the required steps in order to create a gold dollar symbol.

Gold Dollar Sign Summary:Here is a great way to add a bling bling effect to your website or graphic project. In this tutorial, we'll show how to transform an ordinary dollar sign into a gold effect dollar symbol.Step-By-Step Instructions:1. Open a new document in Photoshop. Set height to 200px and width to 175px.2. Select the Type tool and type out your Dollar Sign in the font that you desire. In this tutorial, I went with a bold Arial font.

3. Right click the Type layer in the layers palette. Choose "Blending Options" from the pop-up list.4. Set the properties for "Drop Shadow" to the following:


5. Set the properties for "Inner Glow" to the following:

6. Set the properties for "Bevel and Emboss" to the following:



7. Set the properties for "Gradient Overlay" to the following:(Overlay Gradient Hex Codes: F8AC1A-FFFFFF-E27914-FCC44E-FFFFFF-FCC651-D97316).


8. Set the properties for "Stroke" to the following:(Stroke Gradient Hex Codes: DB6C52-F3B758-E27914).


9. Click OK to accept the changes to the Blending Options.