Hi, it’s Hannah from Printful’s Marketing Team.
In our 2021 Design trends video, we noticed many of you were interested in creating
designs with golden elements. Even though we don’t print with gold or other metallic inks,
there’s an easy way to imitate the texture of those elements. In this episode of
Printful's Design Series, I'll show you how to create the gold foil effect in Photoshop.
Let’s create a new square file in Photoshop, with 3000 pixels in width and length,
and resolution set to 300. Set the color mode to “RGB Color” and press “Create”.
Now unlock the layer by pressing on the lock icon in the layers panel.
Next, let’s create a soft cloud pattern that we’ll use as the base for the gold texture.
Head over to the “Filter” tab, hover over “Render” and select “Clouds”.
With that done, double-click on the layer to rename it.
Now we need to convert our layer to a smart object. This way, when we add our effects,
we can adjust each of them individually at any
moment. Right-click on the layer and select “Convert to Smart Object”.
Next, let’s distort the cloud pattern. Head over to the “Filter” and select “Liquify”.
This opens a new window, where we’ll choose the “Forward Warp Tool”. In the settings panel,
set the brush size to 1500, “Density” to 50, and click on the “Pin Edges”.
This prevents the transparent background from showing up during the distortion process.
Now apply horizontal brush strokes to the image until there are no traces of the cloud pattern,
and press “OK”.
Let’s head over to the “Filter” tab once more, and select “Filter Gallery”. In a
new window that opens up, click on the “Distort” folder and select “Glass”.
In the settings panel, set the “Distortion” to the maximum value of 20, “Smoothness” to 3, under
“Texture” select “Frosted”, and set the “Scaling” to 150. As you can see in the preview window
these settings create a crisp foil effect. Press “OK” to apply this filter to the image.
For our next step, let’s make the details of the foil stand out more. To do that,
click on the “Filter” tab, and under “Sharpen” choose “Smart Sharpen”.
Set the “Amount” value to 150, “Radius” to 1.5, “Noise” to 50, and press “OK”.
Before we add color, we need to make sure that they’re within the CMYK color space gamut.
In other words, if they’re not too bright for print. Let’s head over to “View”, hover over
“Proof Setup”, and select “Working CMYK”. Next in “View” click on “Gamut Warning”. This will
notify us if any of our chosen colors are out of the printing range and might not print well.
Now let’s add some color. In the “Image” tab, hover over “Adjustments”, and select “Gradient
Map”. In a new window that opens up, click on the color bar to open a “Gradient Editor”.
Here double-click on the left “Color Stop”,
and choose a yellow color in the “Color Picker” window.
Now’s a good time to see how the gamut warning works.
Look at how the image changes when we select a different yellow hue in the color field. It
immediately becomes grey. This is a useful tip to remember when working with colors in the future.
Let’s select the yellow color we had before, and press “OK”.
Repeat the process with the right “Color Stop”, but this time a dark brown color.
Now press “OK” to close all the popup windows.
We can change the colors at any moment by double-clicking on the “Gradient Map”
under “Smart Filters” in the layers panel.
Just like that in a few minutes, we created a gold foil texture. Nothing to it!
Let’s use it to create a simple text design. Select the “Text Tool”,
type the text you want, and scale it up.
In the layers tab, place the text layer under the gold foil texture. Now, hold down the “Alt” key,
and click on the line separating the two layers. This will create a clipping mask, and fill the
text shape with the gold foil texture. Let’s scale up the texture layer to make
the details more visible, and change the layer’s position.
Without any additional resources, we have created a text design with a gold foil effect.
All that’s left is to export this design as a PNG file,
and head over to our Design Maker to create a custom product.
This effect works great for all-over products, but for this video,
we have printed it on a DTG product as well. As you can see it turned out great.
Thank you for watching this video. If you want to save time on creating custom designs,
reach out to our Graphic Design Services team. They’ll be happy to help you out.
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