1. Make a new image (ctrl+n), in this example i have used 477x250 pixels. Leave the other settings as deafult, click OK.
2. Press 'D' to reset the colors, now your primary color is black and your secondary color is white.
3. Click on the 'Horizontal Type Tool' click in your image, hold the mousebutton down and draw a box (where you want your text), release the mouse button. Type some text, in the this example I choosed DEVPPL. You should now have something like this:
4. We will now change the layerstyle of the text-layer. Click on Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options. A new window will now appear. You should now change alot of setting in this window. When you are going to change the settings for example 'Drop Shadow' don't click on the checkbox, click on the text 'Drop Shadow'. If you just click on the checkbox the default drop shadow settings will be activated, but if you click on the text, you will be able to edit the settings. And that is what we want.
5. Click on 'Drop Shadow' set Opacity to 50, set Distance to 0 and set Size to 10.
6. Click on 'Inner Shadow' set Distance to 0 and set Size to 7.
7. Click on 'Bevel and Emboss' set Size to 0 and set the Opacity of the Shadow Mode (the black color at the bottom of the window) to 0.
8. Click on 'Colot Overlay' click in the little colorbox, a new window will show up, select white as color (click on the upper left corner), click on OK. Set Opacity to 25.
9. Click on 'Gradient Overlay' set Opacity to 50.
10. Click on 'Stroke' set Size to 1 and click in the colorbox and choose black color, OK, OK
11. You should now have something like this:
I changed the backgound and here is my final result:
Besides, a follow up with cracks and rust would be sweet idea for someone wanting to add more to their text than just this metalish effect.
