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aislinm53205080
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April 28, 2018
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Gold certificate seal?

  • April 28, 2018
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I have barely amy ps experience. We have pse 12 at the office.   I need to create a gold certificate seal with our company name and logo on it ASAP. Can anyone please provide some direction on the quickest way to achieve this?

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    Correct answer hatstead
    1. Google Gold Seal photos and you will get several hits for royalty free gold seal images.
    2. Select one that is appropriate for your purpose, save it, and then open it in PSE
    3. Activate the type tool to type the company name
    4. Copy/paste the logo.

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    Inspiring
    April 30, 2018

    There are many online tutorials on how to create a gold seal. Google for "gold seal photoshop elements" or similar.

    Or as Hatstead suggested you can Google to find a gold seal image to download, as I have done in the following example.

    Add the logo as a separate layer. Add a Color Fill adjustment layer above the logo layer and select a gold color. Group the 2 layers.

    If you want to preserve the various colors of the logo but in shades of gold, change the Fill Layer's Opacity to Color.

    If the result is too lark or tool light you can adjust it with a Levels adjustment.

    For the text, simply use the Text Tool with a gold color.

    However, it might be more interesting to have the text embossed or recessed. I don't know if PSE12 has this capability built into the Text tool. My PSE2 doesn't so I use this method:

    Add a Low Inner Shadow layer style to the text layer.

    Click the "f" icon in the text layer to bring up the Style Settings menu, and play around with the settings to get the embossed or recessed look.  Note that your Style Settings might look different than my version.

    Here is embossed:

    And here is recessed.

    Checking/unchecking the Use Global Light box will switch from embossed to recessed as I have done.

    hatstead
    hatsteadCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    April 28, 2018
    1. Google Gold Seal photos and you will get several hits for royalty free gold seal images.
    2. Select one that is appropriate for your purpose, save it, and then open it in PSE
    3. Activate the type tool to type the company name
    4. Copy/paste the logo.
    aislinm53205080
    Participant
    April 30, 2018

    How would I get the name and logo embossed into the seal? So it's all the same color

    hatstead
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2018

    aislinm53205080  wrote

    How would I get the name and logo embossed into the seal? So it's all the same color

    The type tool uses the color of the foreground chip, so you would have to set up the color picker accordingly.

    As for the logo, that may be more challenging. If you are so inclined, post the logo here on the forum page and I will have a look at it and try to provide directions.

    Are you at all familiar with the software, i.e. what can be done with the tools?

    Which version of PSE do you have?