Introduction to Shiny Effect Photoshop

With Photoshop Shiny Effect, you can turn a dull and gloomy image into one that shines. You can make the paint stand out and shine by changing the layer properties of the painting. Let us discuss ‘How we can create Shiny Effect in Photoshop?’ in a very easy and interesting manner. For applying this effect on any text, you just have to follow some simple steps.

Creating Shiny Effect in Photoshop

Creating Shiny Effect in Adobe Photoshop is not a very big task. You just have to follow these simple instructions, and by following these steps of instruction, you will definitely get a good result for shiny effects. So let us start our learning.

Step 1: First of all, we will make a new document for our leaning. For new documents, Go to the Menu bar and click on File Menu. A drop-down list of some options will be open. Choose the ‘New’ option from here.

Step 2: A New Document Box will open. Make the setting of the page according to you and take White color as the background color of this document. Now click on Create tab of this dialog box for applying these settings.

Step 3: Now click on Text tool of tool panel of this software, which is at the left corner for typing a text:

Step 4: Take ‘Arial’ as font style and Black as the style of Arial font.

Step 5: Take Black color as text color from the property bar of the text tool.

Step 6: Now, type a text on which you want to give Shiny Effect. I will type ‘SHINY’ as my text for the shiny effect and adjust it at the center of the working area by using the move tool. Adjust the size of this text according to you by pressing Ctrl+Shift > for increasing the size of text or press Ctrl + Shift + < for decreasing the size of the text.

Step 7: Now go to the layer section of this software which is at the right corner, and make double click on the text layer. A dialog box of Layer Style will open.

Step 8: You can also open the layer style box by click on the layer style icon, which is at the bottom end of the layer section.

Step 9: Now click on the ‘Color Overlay’ effect option of this layer style dialog box.

Step 10: And click on the color box of this effect. A Color Picker box will be open. Choose your desired color from here, which you want to give on your text, or you can type code of the particular color in color code box.

Step 11: Now click on the ‘Inner Glow’ effect of this layer style box.

Step 12: Here, we will set some parameters of this effect. Take ‘Multiply’ in blend mode option, set the opacity at 55% and make Noise at 0%:

Step 13: And click on the color box of this effect and choose black color for the inner glow from the Color picker dialog box. Press the Ok tab of this color picker dialog box:

Step 14: In the Elements section, make Choke at 10% and size at 30 px:

Step 15: Now, let us move to the next effect that is Bevel & Emboss, and we make some setting in this effect also for enhancing shiny effect on our text. Take ‘Inner Bevel’ in the style of this effect and ‘Smooth’ in Technique option, set Depth up to 20%, size up to 25 px and make Soften up to 8 px. In the ‘Shading’ section, make an angle of 120 degrees and an altitude of 46 degrees. Now take ‘Linear Burn’ in Shadow mode and make opacity 0%.

Step 16: Now click on the ‘Contour’ option of the Bevel & Emboss effect and click on the ‘Rounded Steps’ option in the Contour option for a clear look at the shiny effect.

Step 17: Now, click on the Ok tab of this layer style box for applying these effects. Our text will look like this when we press the Ok tab.

Step 18: Now go to the layer section of this software and make duplicate layers of this text layer. For making a duplicate layer, select the text layer and press the Ctrl + J button from the keyboard.

Step 19: Now select the copy layer of our text layer and make double click on the ‘Bevel & Emboss’ effect of this layer. The layer style dialog box of the ‘Bevel & Emboss effect’ will be open.

Step 20: Now, we will make one change in the Bevel & Emboss effect of this copy layer of text layer that is make Altitude at 45 degrees.

Step 21: Now go to the layer section and double-click on the background layer to make it a simple layer. A new layer dialog box will be open. Give a name to this layer according to you and press the Ok tab of this dialog box:

Step 22: Now make double click on this background layer (layer 0) for the Layer style box:

Step 23: Click on the ‘Gradient Overlay’ effect of this dialog box to increase the smoothness of the shiny effect of text and choose the gradient colour according to you. I will choose a combination of black and white colors for my gradient effect. Now choose ‘Reflect’ in gradient style. You can choose any of the styles which suit your text:

Step 24: Now click on the Ok tab of this dialog box to apply the setting. This is the final Shiny Effect on the text in Photoshop software.

You can apply this Shiny effect on any object of your project in Photoshop software and make it look more effective.

Conclusion

After looking at this article, you can easily understand ‘what is Shiny Effect?’ in Photoshop and ‘How you can apply it on any object of your project in Photoshop software’? Learning these types of effect features of Photoshop will help you in the polishing of your graphic designing skills.

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