Tutorial – Realistic bling bling tutorial!
Thinking of icing yourself out but lack the funds? Here’s a tutorial to ice yourself out without emptying your bank account. There’s many ways of mimicking the bling effect but this is one of my favorite ways.
First off make sure your resolution is on 72 pixels/inch, if your not sure how to check for it go to image then image size then you will see the resolution option present.
1. Add your text.
Open up the psd file I provided and type in the text you want to use to bling out. Obviously I choose my own name. Make sure you have a respectable font size, I recommend around 72 or bigger for better results and quality.
2. Adding a gradient fill.
Double click the bling layer to open up the styles menu and add a gradient fill with the gradient I provided in the PSD. Once applied to your text make sure you change the angle to -49 degrees linear. This will tilt the gradient to give the shine effect on the finished product.
3. Adding a stroke.
Now on the same style menu, add a stroke with a black to white gradient fill (see image below).
4. Color overlay and Satin.
Now add a color overlay with a 25% opacity white. Then add a satin, choose “Overlay” on blend mode and a color white. 136 degree on angle, 4px on both distance and size and a slope contour.
5. Beveling.
Now we come to adding a bevel option, so click the bevel option and use the settings below, this will make the text pop up and look more 3D.
6. Contour and Texture.
Now we get to the final and most important step which creates the actual bling effect. These two option the “contour” and “texture” are located under the bevel option. Check both boxes and start with the Contour first. Very simple, just add a rounded step contour like the image shown below.
Now we add the texture, the texture you choose can make or break your effect, I found the wrinkle pattern works best which comes default with Photoshop. give the texture a scale of 7% and depth of -75 and were done! 
7. Results.
Your finished text should now look like this. 
8. Creativity.
Now we get creative with the final image, I’ve added a silver chain and three sparkles in which I provided in the psd, Once you get the desired look, flatten the whole image (layer -> flatten image) then apply a sharpen filter to it once, that will bring out the bling even more.
Enjoy!
11:17 am on June 2nd, 2008
Excellent tutorial, very helpful!
10:16 pm on June 3rd, 2008
Thanks for the comment Fobb!
9:20 pm on June 7th, 2008
Excellent tutorial…I really like it. What’s the font you used? It’s awesome.
10:43 pm on June 7th, 2008
Thanks Bryan,
You can download the font here. Bling font
9:50 am on June 10th, 2008
Really nice job Olieng!
Did you perhaps forget to include the graphic for Step 4 – Color Overlay and Satin (bling step 4)? Just thought I’d point it out.
Thanks for your time in these tutorials. Very much appreciated!!
5:37 pm on June 10th, 2008
Souljourn,
Thanks allot for pointing that out! I really appreciate that! Glad you enjoy my tutorials, I will have plenty more to come!
4:41 pm on June 12th, 2008
Wow great easy to follow tutorial.. you rock! thanks!
11:28 am on June 18th, 2008
In What Photoshop version did you make the bling Bling text ??
11:47 am on June 18th, 2008
Kakan,
It can be created with any version of Photoshop, I originally made it in PS 7, but recently switched to CS3.
12:44 pm on June 18th, 2008
okey great Tutorials by the way and thanks
1:54 pm on June 18th, 2008
I agree I used this tutorial bro. Nice work. Looking forward to seeing more.
4:04 am on June 23rd, 2008
Pretty cool!
1:22 pm on June 24th, 2008
Your work is so clean! Thanks…
8:23 am on July 5th, 2008
my attempt.http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/1420/tinamn4.gif
12:14 am on July 24th, 2008
Olieng, this is really awesome!!..it looks so realistic and all.. i bet i’ll use this for my blog..thank you!!
10:26 pm on July 28th, 2008
WOW! Nice tut man! Keep it up! Truly looks…”bling bling”
9:10 pm on August 26th, 2008
nice effect olieng..
11:33 pm on August 30th, 2008
great tutorial olieng! i created this within minutes for a buddy…
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t210/TranslucentRadio/dmixxbling2bbanner.png
oh, and i followed your scary clown tut as well… they are very easy to follow. well, i’m off to do another… i think i’ll try the particle streak effect. that one looks insane.
4:13 am on August 31st, 2008
PLUR damn that looks sick bro! good job!
1:20 am on September 10th, 2008
That’s brilliant! I’m going to go “bling up” my entire website now! I’ll be looking for excuses to put diamonds on things from now on. My boss is gonna hate me
8:45 am on September 25th, 2008
Yo man this tutorial really helped me at work. really simple and easy to follow along with. Cheers
9:10 pm on February 13th, 2009
It’s easy tutorial I really like it, I’m new at CS3 How did you make the sparkling? Help pls.
6:02 am on April 20th, 2009
Exellent !!
Added on
Thanks
4:43 am on April 29th, 2009
Thanks a Million. Much Appriciated.
12:50 pm on April 29th, 2009
thank you very much! a billion time appricated
7:18 am on July 1st, 2009
How did you get the sparkles?
11:31 am on July 1st, 2009
Just use brushes, search on google for “Sparkle photoshop brushes”.
12:34 pm on July 1st, 2009
Ol does this work on AP 7? Mine doesnt quite work!! Not very good with these things. Tried to download the font on your post to bryan that doesnt work. Help please dude
2:54 pm on July 1st, 2009
Ol I have been having trouble using this text. I kind of did it but it didnt work properly. This ICE font is really good and I would like to use it. Im not very good with photoshop. Is there an easier way. Have you got it ready made? Please help.