*photos from elan creative co.
Hey There!
GOLD FOIL TEXTURE
To start, create a square canvas. My settings are 800×800 pixels and 72ppi and RGB colors, start with a white background.
This texture looks great for digital products, but if you want to use them for print you should apply real foil.
— elan creative co.
Double click on your foreground color and set it to your favorite gold shade. I use a bright gold color that has the HEX code #fff336.
Now go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Your background will change to a cloudy light and dark gold background that will be the base of our gold foil texture.
Go to Filter > Add Noise and add noise. I like to use 6% and uniform distribution, Or you can even skip this step, although a small amount of noise will make it look more realistic.
The last step is to go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Distort. You can use the Glass or Ocean Ripple filter to create your texture For the texture i made, I’m using the Glass filter. You can tweak the distortion, smoothness, and scale until you have a nice gold foil.
If your final texture is too dark you can change the Brightness and Contrast using an Adjustment layer. open your Adjustments panel from Window > Adjustments and click on Brightness. I set the brightness to 70 and the contrast to 8. This makes it so much shinier.
To use the texture, select the gold foil and the brightness layer from the Layers panel, right-click on them and choose Merge Layers from the menu. Don’t forget to save it so you can use it anytime.
OPTIONAL . . .
With your gold foil layer selected, go to Filter > Other > Offset. Move the vertical and horizontal arrow until you see a cross or divide the height and width of your canvas by two and enter the value.
My canvas is 800x800px, so I will enter 400px for both areas.
Select the Clone Stamp Tool (shortcut: S) and use a soft brush. The size is not important ,you might need to change it.
Using the Clone Stamp Tool, cover the edges that are visible in the middle of your artwork. You should select areas that are similar to the ones you want to cover by pressing the Alt key and then drawing over the edges. This will probably take a bit of time, but it’s not very difficult.
This is the final result.
To save as a pattern, go to Edit > Define Pattern and name your pattern.
RECOLOR YOU TEXTURE
If you want to use other colors, the first thing you have to do is create a silver foil. To do that, go to Adjustments and click on Hue/Saturation. Toggle the Saturationall the way to the left.
Add a Brightness/Contrast layer over it and increase the brightness to make the silver texture lighter. When you are done, select the base layer and the adjustment layers and merge them. Don’t forget to save your texture.
To change the silver texture to a rose gold texture. Duplicate the silver texture so you won’t lose it and add an empty layer above it by pressing Shift+Ctrl+N. Change the foreground color to the color you want to use. I’m using #ff9fce. Fill the empty layer with color using the Paint Bucket Tool.
Change the Blend Mode to Color. You can also use Multiply for a darker color or Opacity if you want a lighter color. Select the color and foil layers and merge them. Then save your new texture.
You can create as many textures as you like with this technique.
HOW TO ADD GOLD FOIL TO TEXT
Before I end this tutorial, I want to show you how to add the gold foil texture to text using a clipping mask.
Using the Type Tool, enter your text. I’m using Autumn in November font. You can do this with any font you like, it looks better with a bolde font.
Move your gold foil layer above the text layer. With your gold foil layer selected, go to Layers > Create Clipping Mask (Ctrl+Alt+G).
Now you can create your very own gold foil texture in Photoshop!
FINAL LOOK:
Let me know in the comments if you have any questions or any tutorials you are interested in.
Magalaty 