Make Steel Looking text. Also learn how to make the brushed steel texture. Once you know this you can add your own modifications and create your own steel look. There are millions of ways of making the steel text look. This is one way. Level: Intermediate Photoshop Version: CS2 (Can be done in Earlier versions up to Photoshop 7.0) Definitions: DPI: Dots Per Inch. This means how many pixels there are per inch of space. Tutorial: First create a new image with a black background. Create it 5 Inches Wide by 1 1/2 Inches tall at 300 dpi, or a dpi you desire. Next, with your choice of font, create a white text saying whatever you would like to put there. I used Steel as the text and Franklin Gothic as the font. Some other good fonts for this are Bank Gothic and Copperplate Gothic. Press “Ctrl j” while selected on the text layer. This will make a copy of the layer. Next, rasterize the text layer by selecting it and going to [Layer -> Raterize -> Type ] Next click...

      Make an image cooler, meaning make the overall cast of an image, a bluish color. This can be used to make images look more cutting edge, or even making them look more cold. Level: Intermediate Photoshop Version: CS2 Tutorial: First you would open the image you would like to adjust. Here we open an image of a Lexus car. Next, go to [Image -> Adjustments -> Photo Filter]. This will open the Photo Filter window. Set the settings as shown here, you can test with different shades of blue or cyan. Here we used a cyanish blue. The density here is set pretty high. Density determines how much the color is applied. If you keep “preview” checked you will be able to see the outcome of the image. Notice the image has a cooler look. The photo filter can be used in many ways and is a great image adjuster. I use it a lot to give photos the right feeling. You can use any color you want, it depends on what feel you want the photo to have. For example, if you are doing...