Solid Gold Effect: Making a Realistic Metallic Image

Here's a comprehensive method for making an image (or a part of one) appear to be made of solid gold. The method shown contains a number of 'tricks' you can use in this. It also is non-destructive, which means you can go back later to tweak the shades of gold, the darks and lights, and so on.
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[@nadineappletini]

Wonderful tutorial and so well explained. Enjoyed a lot doing it! Thank you very much.

[@graziacavasino8884]

FANTASTIC effect and FANTASTIC tutorial, thanks a lot!

[@rupertjackman5799]

A clear well paced non music video that is full of VERY USEFUL TIPS. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise - now i'll subscribe!

[@anneburke2405]

Now this is exciting Dave, thank you very much.

[@gregoryjamesboyce]

You make the best creative videos. Thanks. 😊

[@larrydean5696]

Wow ! Love it, I'll be copying it. Thank You

[@razeroxo8068]

Your solid gold effect.really good much appreciated!

[@elisestewart6202]

Great tutorial I really enjoyed it.

[@gerarbara]

Easy when you know how!

[@davewright190]

another very informative video!

[@truenostudio]

What a delight

[@marcovortexbohler]

thank you so much

[@deacupuntura7334]

thank you very much...

[@silenciowatford]

very cool indeed

[@stevejacob4375]

Brilliant, thats so inspirational.

[@imzaazmi]

Amazing! ❤️👍👍
Don't know whether can do this on ipad or not.. Thanks sir

[@jlgflash662]

You are the "GOLDFINGER" of Affinity ---> ;)

[@LIOJRD]

IMPRESSIVE WORK, I think playing with all these effects , we can get some water effect skin, but I just saying.... anyway thank you, I'm from mexico but I can uderstand enough, thank you

[@sadhgurulife9604]

Amazing, how would i know how to think about such adjustments.

[@NoizyInSeattle]

This is a a much more sophisticated technique than the one I was using with curves.

[@BigRockNor]

Nice :)

[@ianwatson3393]

How do you work out all these steps?

[@inaffinityforaffinityphoto3220]

A combination of watching other videos and doing my own experiments to see if I can make improvements or find other approaches

[@tengkuamali]

is there a way to do this for a video?

[@inaffinityforaffinityphoto3220]

Sorry, I don't know how to do transforms for video.

[@Greg-fg1rd]

is it possible with all the reference material you provided you did not provide the images needed? Am I missing them?

[@inaffinityforaffinityphoto3220]

I mostly use my own images, which are 40mpx and hence very big, making it tricky to offer them for download.

[@jtm1096]

Is it possible to do this level of detail on Affinity Design as well? The "gold art" selections in 'styles' tab work, but not very well. Unfortunately it doesn't have the same "highlight this to re-search the gradient selection (where you fixed the hair) tool either.

[@inaffinityforaffinityphoto3220]

Sorry -- I'm not a AD guy...