Smolding Gold
This tutorial teaches you how to make a smooth smolding gold effect.

author:
  Ryan
title:
  Smolding Gold
date:
  Thu 8 April 2004
category:
  Photoshop Filter Effects
credits:
 


Open a Document

Make a 400x400 document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is white.



Clouds Effect

Now apply Filter>Render>Clouds then apply Filter>Render>Difference Clouds.



Chrome Effect

Apply Filter>Sketch>Chrome and use these following settings:






Blending Effect

Duplicate the layer and apply Multiply as the blending mode.



Lens Flare

Apply 2 Filter>Render>Lens Flare to the Background Layer and use these settings for each flare (put each flare in the top left and right corners):






Duplicate layer

Duplicate the Background copy layer and apply Color Dodge as your blending option. Your Layers window should look like:






Apply Hue settings

Select the top layer and apply these HUE settings (CNTRL+U):





The Final Result

Select the bottom layer and apply these HUE settings (CNTRL+U):



There you go, you just created a nice smolding gold effect.



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