Chrome or silver 3D text filter wanted

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
December 14, 2022
2 replies
647 views

Hi all,
I'm trying to create text titles that apper to be made of 3D polished steel (what should just be a simple bevel) but have not had much luck finding a way to do this. I will regularly need to create this effect and I will need to use different typefaces and work with text at different sizes/widths, etc.

I don't want to subscribe to a monthly stock image service but I'm not adverse to paying (once) for a filter that will do this with any text and any typeface. If I can do this easily myself that would be fine but I'd prefer to not have to mess around for hours every time I need to do this. I've seen any number of silver or chrome filters but nothing I really like. Just a simple three dimension beveled light-gray/silver steel effect with polished edges.

How to

This topic has been closed for replies.

Mylenium

Legend

Agree with Monika. PS would be a much more straightforward way of doing it. The problem with anything metallic is that its appearance is 90% and more reflections and they vary at every angle. Illu has no good way of creating such stuff in one blow, so you'd be quite busy piecing this together from tons of layers with gradients and all that. Not impossible, but not very efficient.

Mylenium

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Could you maybe post an example?

Also: did you already try out Illustrator's 3D effects? You can download additional materials for it.

Should this be pure vector?

P

PeterD-NJAuthor

Inspiring

I'm not sure how to do this in Illustrator to be honest. The end result will be used in InDesign, but I don't think I can create this effect natively within ID; I've tried doing using bevels and shadows but it's just not a great look. I figured if I did it in Illustrator and copy/pasted into ID that might be best.

I am attempting to re-create this image that I made nearly 25 years ago in an ancient version of Photoshop. I only have a small .TIF file left—the original is long gone, I suspect. It's my ham radio "QSL Card." Every chrome effect I've ever seen has black-and-white gradients all over the place, which I really don't like. I will also be using this same effect, but with a condensed sans-serif typeface, for my company's logo and a book title.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

If Pixels are not an issue, I would do it in Photoshop. There should be plenty of tutorials on how to do a Chrome effect. You can even keep the text editable, place the PSD in InDesign and then edit it everytime you need a new text in it.

And now I'd like to know where that underground photo is from. Lovely!

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded