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Enter Layer Styles for your text layer.

Select Bevel and Emboss and apply the following:

You should get this effect after applying the Hard Chisel:

Add a subtle Satin effect to bring even more depth to your text:

Add a Gradient Overlay. Here I’m making silver text with a pinch of blue, but you can change this gradient to be whatever colour you want.

And why not! A quick Drop Shadow.

There you go! Silver Harry Potter Movie Text.

You can easily add in a tagline as well, use the techniques described above to make small adjustments to the font so it’s not so monotonous.

You may also need to use a different blending style than the one described above since this text is so thin. Here are the two I’ve used:

This results in a silvery Slytherin-worthy text:

There are two ways to adjust the colours of the text as eluded to above. First, you can change the gradient overlay to make bronze text sharp enough for any Ravenclaw:

Or even a Colour Overlay instead, for that golden Gryffindor (or yellow for the gentle Hufflepuff, if you prefer!).

Just experiment! Of course this will work on other types of non-HP text. Hope it was easy to follow and you’re not too confounded. Try it out!

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22 Responses to “This didn’t work. Another load of garbage. …”

1. TutorialSelect.com on February 12th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

   Harry Potter Movie Font – Bronze, Silver, and Gold Text Tutorial…

   Grab your artsiest robe, your best wand for charms, turn up some wicked wizard rock, roll up your sleeves, and get ready to make some Photoshop Magic! You’ll learn how to make this Silver Text using this Photoshop tutorial, which is similar to the tex…

2. Tutorial Effect on February 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

   Great text effect! Thanks for submitting it on tutorial effect

3. luke on February 16th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

   This was great thanks.
   I used this for my coursework in school (just not harry potter) Its a game im designing

4. Minty Ferret on February 16th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

   Wow! Sounds like a neat use for it. When you get that game done I’d love to give it a whirl!

5. Katalog Stron on February 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am

   Cool text effect! Thanks.

6. Dazzle on March 8th, 2008 at 12:57 am

   Wow! Amazing tut! Thank you.

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8. Anonymous on March 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

   its great

9. Anonymous on March 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am

   so cool

10. Maya on April 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    soOo CoOL. Thankx!

11. lue on April 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    that was a great idea it helped me get a b on my project thaks a lot

12. Tout Medias on May 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am

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13. raj on June 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    it is excilent

14. dinah flores on September 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Thank you so much…

15. nivek on November 29th, 2008 at 4:53 am

    gr8!! thanks

16. antonz on December 19th, 2008 at 1:10 am

    nice!

17. Minz on December 29th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Thank you for this tutorial!

18. sOMEeMOguy96 on January 29th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Can someone tell me the name of the tagline’s font?

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21. tracy on July 13th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    This didn’t work. Another load of garbage.

22. Satisfied on September 15th, 2009 at 12:30 am

    I diverged a bit from your procedure in order for it to fit my own project, but I enjoyed your tutorial. Great job, please keep creating tutorials.