Easy 2-step Gold to Silver

If you have tried my tutorial Making Metallic Gradients, you will have learned one way to turn gold and silver into many
different lovely metallic-looking colors. Here is a way to turn gold into silver. This is a very quick, easy 2-step way.

You will need a gold metallic gradient for this tutorial. Any gold gradient,
or pattern, will work. I will be using two different looking golds.



Open your gold metallic gradient/pattern and use SHIFT D to make a duplicate.
Close out your original and work with the copy. I do this for ALL images
I work with, so that I do not mess up and lose my original in error.

STEP 1 Go to Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colorize and change BOTH hue and saturation to 0.
Your lovely gold gradient will now be a dull looking grey, but no worries.

STEP 2 Go to Adjust/Brightness and Contrast/Brightness-Contrast
and change Brightness to 20 and Contrast to 30.


#6 That is all there is to it. Now you can save it as a .jpg file and save it into your Patterns folder.
I make new folders and keep my Patterns/Gradients organized. And so that I do not bog down my PSP,
I save my new folders in C:Kami/My Documents/My PSP Files/Patterns/PJs Metallics



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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
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