Colorizing an object

louie from england, united kingdom, using windows xp with pc, writes in with:

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hi. can anyone help. i am a photoshop beginner.

i am trying to create some text. i have tried it with chrome effect from a web tutorial and am very happy with it! i am now tring to get a gold effect and also to make the chrome red -

is this possible and do i need a phd in photoshop to do it. appreciate any help anybody can offer
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[Banzai Magillacutti]

There are two easy ways to do this. The first is to Ctrl+click the layer thumbnail of the text to load it as a selection. Then create a new layer and fill it with something approximating a mustard color. You would then set the layer blend mode to 'color'.

The other way is to grab a selection of the text in the same manner as above then hit Shift+Ctrl+C to 'copy merged' then paste that into a new layer with Ctrl+V. Next hit Ctrl+U to bring up the Hue/Saturation dialogue, check the 'colorize' box, and adjust to taste.

They are both pretty quick and simple. :)