using PSP and FlamingPear' Silver plugin from
The Designer Sextet plugin set
Step 1
Start with a white filled area.
Step 2
Apply Flaming Pear's Silver plugin using the settings below.
Step 3
Next, apply PSP's Chrome filter.
Step 4
You can play around with the flaws setting, I used 3 for the text.
For the larger area, I had to add an optional step; I applied
the PSP Guassian Blur filter with the setting of 4 and then I used the
chrome filter with flaws set to 1
Step 5
I added a drop shadow with these setting for the silver text.
For the
Step 6
I added a layer and moved it below the silver layer and flood filled
it.
Step 7
I flood filled the bottom layer.
For the image below, I added a shadow to the silver banding using
the above settings but changed the vertical & horizontal settings to
zero and the blur to 3.5.
Close Window when Finished.
tutorial by CSGreen
* I do not generally compress my graphics but for the sake of loading time - the tutorial graphics are compressed!