This lesson will cover the type styling used for the headers on the tutorial pages.

We'll start from the saved image of the first chroming lesson.

Changing the background to white shows that we've got some work to do; there is fringing that we need to get rid of, and the whole appearance is muddy and without highlights.

Cleaning up the fringing is done just as we did before. Load the transparency mask from the text layer as a selection, and make the text copy layer active. Invert the selection, delete, and deselect.

Through most of the chroming lessons, the text layer has been sitting there, hidden, occasionally used for its transparency mask. Now it's time to use it; make it visible and active. Load its transparency mask as the selection, and expand the selection by one pixel. With preserve transparency off, fill with black. Deselect.

As I've indicated before (and as you've seen here), this effect has enough partial transparency to make it very sensitive to the background. The main use of the type layer is to break that linkage, giving the type a solid black background so that other effects will be more predictable.

The only thing that's left is to change the color. Open the control for the color balance layer (double-click on the circle at the far right end of the layer). Set the red to +100, and set the yellow-blue scale back to zero.

That's it. We've taken an ordinary typeface and given it a soft metallic glow, colored it, melted it, and a few other things, hopefully having some fun along the way.