Chocolate Text
Make your text milk chocolate goodness without rasterizing.
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Write your text on a new layer, your background can be any color, preferably a color that complements the style you want.
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Double click the layer to apply layer styles. Add a Bevel and Emboss layer. Set the style to Inner Bevel, technique to Smooth. You can try the chisel techniques if you want, but I like the little blur that smooth offers, almost like the chocolate has melted a little. Maximize the depth to 1000%. Direction Up. The Size will depend on your text size, but should be relatively low, and in this case (for an image width of approx 1000 pixels) I used 6 with soften set to 0. Uncheck the Global Light setting, then set the angle to 90 and the altitude to 45. For simplicity, you can try using screen and multiply modes with white and black and effect the opacity, but I like changing the highlight and shadow modes to normal and 100%, then select colors that complement the chocolate color. Highlight becomes a more yellow caramel and shadow is darker brown.
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This looks pretty good, but we can take it a step further by adding a Satin layer. Set the angle to 90 and the color to a white with the blend mode set to screen of about 15% opacity. Set the distance and size to about 40 each. You can try a different contour if you'd like, but the effect will be subtle
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Now add a Pattern Overlay. Set the pattern to "Satin" (looks chrome like). Set the blend mode to Overlay or Lighten with opacity of about 10%. Scale to fit your desires.
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That's pretty much it. To emphasize it more I added a quick light, outside stroke with a size of 5, and I added a slight drop shadow. Because we unchecked use global light on the bevel and emboss, the shadow can be positioned without impacting the effect.
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