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Newcomer needs help with brushed aluminium look.


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billywifta

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First of all hello to you all at PSG................. :)

I'm a signmaker from the UK and have been dabbling with photoshop for a couple of years. I have lots of fun ;\ with it but due to our fast turnaround l never delve that far into photoshop because of the time factor.
However l have a customer who has a logo that looks like so, (attatched). I need to rework it a little (text slightly different etc...)and was wondering if anyone could help me how to re-draw this.
It's a brushed aluminium look and the lettering looks as though it has been routed out.

Help with this would be appreciated.
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Welcome to PSG,billywifta
Uuuu..... I can't see the attachment, try posting again.

Do you mean something like this?....
 
Hi Ho, billywifta! Welcome to the forums. Do not despair! All is well in Guruland! ;)

Your problem was that you were uploading CMYK files. Neither Firefox or Explorer would render the image on my PC but Safari on my Mac did. I copied your image to include in an answer. (If p?tr??k could have seen the image he would have provided the answer.) Oh yes, our size limitations are 600px wide x 800px high and 100K max.

If you are going to try and match the original texture it will take some experimentation. Try opening a new image, larger than you will finally need. Use the eyedropper to try and get the color used in the original...lots of blue in that grey.

Next use Filter > Noise > Add Noise (have monochrome checked). Try about 35%.

Now use Filter > Blur > Motion Blur

With some experimentation that will give you your brushed aluminum background. Now for the cutout. I'm going to provide two different techniques. The first was the one they used.

1. Duplicate your brushed aluminum background. Use a Hue/Contrast adjustment layer on the bottom layer to make it darker. Next use the type mask tool to create a selection outline of your type. With the top brushed alum layer active hit delete. Now double click on that layer to bring up the Layer Styles and add a drop shadow.

2. If you want to change the look slightly you can just use Layer Styles to achieve a similar goal. You use the type mask tool on your brushed alum layer and create a new layer of brushed alum Layer > New > New Layer via copy. Now double click on the new type layer to bring up the Layer Styles dialog. You need to experiment with three elements if you want a softened edge. Inner Shadow gives you a cut in look. Color Overlay provides an overall darker type and bevel and emboss softens the edge.

Here are two samples. If you need more specific directions, do let us know.
 
Oh yes, our size limitations are 600px wide x 800px high and 100K max.
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I can't post any image more the 400 x 400 px [confused] [upset]
 
p?tr??k said:
Oh yes, our size limitations are 600px wide x 800px high and 100K max.
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I can't post any image more the 400 x 400 px [confused] [upset]
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No, you should definately be able to post up to 600 wide and 800 high. That's the Forum default.

PLUS... you're allowed to post a maximum of 2 images PER POST. So that equals a total of 200kb per post. One of, if not THE largest attachment file limits around any graphics Forum community; we're proud to say that. ;)

Try a test post Patrick and let me know what happens. We'll sort it out. :B
 
Huh,....I could of sworn I tried posting an image above 400x400 px below 100k before and it didn't work [confused] , eh but whatever, thats nice to know now.
 
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