How To Make Gold Foil Text
How To Make Gold Foil Text-
I’m sure you have seen many examples of gold foil text used everywhere. I know we all like to add a bit of sparkle and shine to our projects. I thought it would be fun to share how to make gold foil text for your upcoming projects. I do have photo software that I can use for this process. But, I just recently became acquainted with pic monkey and it really makes it easy to create gold text. If you aren’t currently using it, I think you will like it, it is very user friendly.
Let’s get started-
• Download the gold swatch provided below or find one you like, you will need it later so make sure you save it where you can easily find it.
• Download your gold Swatch
click here to download the how to make gold text swatch
• Go to picmonkey.com you will see this screen when you arrive at pic monkey, click design and click whichever shape you prefer. I will use a square shape for the purpose of this tutorial.
• Select a font style by clicking on the Tt on the left of the screen. I selected Freshman- click the font then click add text at the top.
• Write whatever you would like, using the black color (it is the default color so it should already be selected) Try to select a font that’s a bit bolder so the gold will show up well.
• Now we need to prepare the font for the gold change. Click the down arrow at the top right.
• Then click the butterfly on the left (this is the overlays section) click on your own and select the gold swatch you downloaded in the beginning.
• Click on the gold swatch and move it so it covers the black text you just created.
• In the panel you will see “Blend Modes” click on normal then lighten.
Taa Daa, save your work, Boom Shakalaka you are a gold text rock star!
I hope you will enjoy making your own gold foil projects.
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I was trying to do this but it downloads as a pdf and pic monkey says it can’t open
Hello, well shoot, okay please download and save as jpg or as a word document ( you will need to convert it if you download as a word document though). Let me know if you need further help. Hugs!
hi, did you receive my reply the other day? Please download and covert or save as a jpg. or png. if you want to use picmonkey. Let me know If I can help. Hugs!
thank you I have wanted to do a gold foil and some projects but always backed off. I have bookmarked and going to try this.
Thanks for this very helpful tutorial. Pinned!
my pleasure, I hope you will find plenty of projects to crate with some pretty gold foil text. xo
Katherine, wonderful tutorial and thanks for showing me! Blessings!
Good morning Pam, thank you. I hope I made the tutorial easy to follow. Let me know when you create your gold foil text, I would love to see your projects xo
Katherine, I’ve wondered how this was done. Thank you for showing this!
Hello Carol, my pleasure I am always happy to share xo
Love PicMonkey and this looks super easy to try, so I will so be giving this a whirl now. Thanks Katie xoxo <3
I know me too, I can’t believe it took me all this time to use it, LOL xo
You are so helpful and so cute! Thank you, Katherine! oxo
Good morning my friend, you know I love sharing with you xoxo
Great tutorial Katherine! I love pic monkey! It’s so easy to use :-)! Thank you for sharing! I hope you have a great day!
Smiles!
Terry
good morning Terry me too. I can’t believe it took me all of this time to try it out. It’s one of my favorite things now xo