Fill it with black and no “Stroke”.Ģ - In the “Layers” Panel, lock your rectangle by clicking right next to the little eye icon to bring out the padlock icon. Select the “Rectangle Tool” (M) and make a rectangle that covers your entire document. Check out for artwork, tutorials, and more.For this Tutorial, we will use Tynabella Font from .ġ - In Illustrator, create a “New Document”. Mary works under the brand Acrylicana® and has illustrated and designed for companies like Disney, Jakks Pacific, Jada Toys, Envato, and more. Share your finished result in the comment section below, and as always, let us know what sort of text treatments and tutorials you’d like to see next from us here on Vectips! Adjust the letters and gradient as you see fit so the text looks like a light reflection beneath the original text.Ĭonclusion: Gorgeous Metallic Text EffectĬomplete your design with a few sparkles or try on some other metallic text to complement the piece. Select both and hit Clip in the Transparency panel. Place it behind and beneath your metallic text effect letters and under the shadow shape drawn in the previous step.ĭraw a rectangle filled with a Linear gradient going from white to black and place it over the copies text.
Adjust the radius so it’s an ellipse with the Gradient Tool.Ĭopy and Paste your text. To create a shadow beneath the metallic text effect letters, draw a rectangle and apply a Radial Gradient to it going from black at 0% to 100% Opacity with the opaque color in the center. Place your metallic text effect text in the center of the background. When completed, Group the entire word together.ĭraw a rectangle and fill it with the pattern of your choice.ĭraw another rectangle overlapping the pattern design and fill it with a Linear Gradient of magenta at 0% Opacity to 100% Opacity. I like to work on multiple letters at a time so the whole process goes a bit faster. Repeat the previous steps on the other letters. Select the group and the copies letter and Create a Clipping Mask (Control-7). Make sure the copy is above the shadow and highlight group. Copy and Paste the letter face and Align it with the original letter face. Group together your shadow and highlight shapes. I set my Radial Gradients to light and dark golds, the same tones used in the highlight and shadow gradients throughout this design. With the drawing tool of your choice, draw highlight and shadow shapes with radial gradients overlapping your letter faces. Adjust the gradient angles with the Gradient Tool and Group together your bevel shapes. Make sure your United shapes are Expanded.Īpply bright yellow and gold gradients to the Bevel shapes. This makes applying gradients to it easier. Select and Unite like sides with the Pathfinder panel. Group together your shadow shapes.Įxpand the Appearance of the Bevel under Object. Apply the gradient to each shadow shape and use the Gradient Tool to adjust its placement. Select each 3D shadow shape of the letter and apply a Linear Gradient going from dark taupe to yellow and back to tan tones (see below). Hit OK and this will make a simple bevel on your letter face. Set all three axes to 0°, the Bevel to Clasic, and the Height of the Bevel to 4 pt. Select the front face of each letter and apply a Linear Gradient of -90° of light yellow and gold tones (see below).įocusing on the M, select the front face and once again go to Effect > 3D > Etrude & Bevel. Note that to get the look of the lettrs below, you’ll have to carefully revolve the Y-Axis of the 3D effect so each letter is a bit different and looks like they’re curving to the sides. You can repeat the previous step on each of your letters. Go to Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel and enter in the following settings:Įxpand the Appearance of the letter under Object. Ungroup the letters and focus on one at a time.
Expand the text and set the fill color to gold ( #BC9D4A) To being creating our beautiful metallic text effect tutorial, first create a New Document. Then, with the Type Tool, write out the word or words of your choice. Topics Covered: Appearance Panel, Patterns, 3D Effectsįinal Image: Gorgeous Metallic Text Effect.Tutorial Details: Gorgeous Metallic Text Effect Create something fit for a king with 3D effects, gradients, and a patterned background in well under an hour. Get luxurious with this gorgeous metallic text effect.
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