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How to Create Faux Gold Foil Prints!

 Lately it seems like everyone is really into gold foil prints!  They are actually pretty easy to make, but you do need some specialized equipment such as a certain kind of printer and of course the gold foil itself!  Or, you can make a faux gold foil print right on your computer if you want a cheaper way, or if you want to make seasonal prints that are easy to switch out!  Here’s how!

Above is step 1, but the actual step 1 (or pre-step I guess) is to purchase a gold foil digital scrapbook paper file.  You can find this easily on Etsy, just search for gold foil scrapbook paper. I found mine for .99 for both gold and silver papers.  You just buy it, download and save it to your computer to use as you wish!

Step 1: go to PicMonkey and choose the design feature.  Chose the size and shape you want.  For canvas color select white.  Then, type up your quote or graphics you want to use.  Make sure everything is the color black.

Step 2: Once your text is all set, exactly how you want it, centered and spell-checked, click the combine button at the top, as shown in the photo above.  This will combine everything onto the background, so you will not be able to move the text again after this step.  You have to do this part or the next steps won’t work correctly!
Step 3: Open the overlays screen (the butterfly icon on the left) and choose “your own.”  Select your saved gold foil file.

Step 4: The overlay will show up over your text like this.  Position it over the text, making sure all the text it covered with the gold foil!

Step 5: Make sure your gold foil graphic is still selected. In the overlay editor click on the blend mode drop down menu. Here you have two options that will work, so play around with both and see which one you like better with your print.  You can choose “Hardlight” or “Lighten.”  See which one you like better, both will cause the gold foil to show up as if it is behind the text, thus giving you a gold foil look!

Save as a png file and you’re done! Ta-da!

Here is my final product:

-Albus Dumbledore

Not a fan of gold foil?  No problem!  You can use this method with any digital scrapbook paper to customize your text, or even use a photo you took as the background- a field of flowers or a shot of the beach would look brilliant behind a nice quote about summer!

I hope you find this quick tip to be useful! Comment below if you used it and let us know what projects you used this for!

Comments

  5. I'm seriously considering stopping my Photoshop subscription, but honestly, I am using PicMonkey more and more every day. It's a lot easier to use, but has such great features! Thank you for this easy tutorial!

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