GrandmasterB has finally made the front page of Pixel2Life! After publishing the Killer Metallic Text Tutorial, I decided to submit it to Pixel2Life and to Tutorialized. After weeks of playing the waiting game, I was finally emailed this morning notifying me that the tutorial had been accepted. If you’d like to check out the placement you can see it on the front page or go under Photoshop > Text Effects.

After receiving the news this morning I decided to submit the Custom RSS Feed Icons tutorial. I’m sure they get bombarded daily with tutorials, but hopefully we’ll see it get approved by mid-July. Thanks Pixel2Life!

~ GrandmasterB

If there’s one thing that I am a big proponent of it is customization…just take a look at my theme! I took the Milk-It Theme that was popularized by one of the better-known Making Money Online gurus and spun it into something of my own creation. I took that same approach when I created the RSS Feed Icon for the site. I didn’t want something that looked like it was pulled off the shelf and slapped on the site…I wanted something that was custom that carried the design of GrandmasterB. So, how did I do it? Well, I’m not a magician so I guess I am going to let this little secret out of the bag. I took the great source files from Feed Icons and morphed it into something of my own.

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GrandmasterB is back and ready for Round Two of this Killer Metallic Text tutorial. Since this tutorial is a two-parter I recommend going through part one before moving onto this tutorial. However, if you only want to learn how to create the metallic text effect and not the background that is fine too. I leave it up to your discretion. With all of that out of the way, let’s get on with the show…

If you haven’t done so already please open your file from the first tutorial (you did save it right?). If you don’t have it, fear not you can download the Photoshop file that I created for the tutorial here:

Photoshop File (2.8MB): Killer Metallic Text_PT1.psd

Alright…let’s roll!

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I know that many of you have seen tutorials all over the place that describe how to create metallic text with Photoshop. Well, I’m here to show you how to make Killer Metallic Text and I’m going to toss in a cool background and a reflection effect. So over this two part tutorial you actually get three tutorials for the price of one. How’s that sound? Along with this tutorial I will make the final Photoshop (.psd) file available for download. I know that sometimes it is easier to figure out how something works by taking it apart first. Note: Throughout the tutorial I will give you keyboard shortcuts for picking tools or performing commands. They will be listed in parenthesis next to the task.

Let’s get started!

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The awesome folks at Go Media have released another great package of vector artwork. Vector Pack 11 has got some really great stuff (much better than #10…in my opinion). For those of you that don’t know about these vector packs they are fantastic and a must buy for anyone that is serious about design. This latest pack has some really great stuff that GrandmasterB will definitely be trying out.

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