You will need Graechans - Blue Ice Script
Tutorial

Very nice Rod.
I wonder if we will get a script for this one.

I was actually thinking of writing one for it.Pretty easy PDB steps.

Looks like Metal on wood or is that the font?

Nope the font is regular ole sans bold.
The pipeline involves Graechans blue ice script, bump mapping, color balance, and lighting effects.
I need to speak to Graechan first before i start.Possibly he could just add the effect to Blue Ice.
Then just rename the script to Steam-Punk-Copper or something.

Very nice Rod. Copper is one of my favorite things and I've tried to find good copper gradients, textures and patterns. I have a lot of gradients and a couple patterns but I've not been able to make something copper and really look like it.

Here you go O.Seamless copper.

Thanks! Grabbed it. This is the copper look I want to be able to emulate. Like the copper in a new penny - bright, shiny, lovely copper.

I will see what i can do.
If you use noise >slur that creates a bit of a wavy effect.But you lose the seamlessness.

Not to worry. I've been trying for years to get the perfect copper pattern or gradient. The problem lies in the reflective surface of it.

This is close but i think i will add a ripple.

GMIC does wonders

I don't think this will work. It needs a hammered look to it.

You are going to entirely too much work, Rod. If you do a Bing search for copper, you will see all sorts of brigh, shiny copper stuff.

WB to the Staff!

Thank you for the welcome O.
Here is one more try.I think i got the shine or reflection about right.



The seamless pattern

Thanks, Rod.

I ripped off a chunk of the image here and scaled it down to bowl tut size. It still lost the nice reflection in the translation. My quest, I fear, will go on.

tried the text using your copper Rod but didn't get the 'shine' in the face. (ps. I used palitino lino type font)
I tried it with sans but was the same.

Just using blue ice and the pattern will not work.
You have to use blue ice with active gradient black and white default (fg to trans) bump map it to itself, color balance, and lighting effects.

blue ice settings (keep layers so you can turn off the shadow)

Color balance settings - select top layer


Lighting - select top layer




bump map settings - select top layer


Curves - select top layer


Result


You can give it a brighter or darker look with the curves tool if you wish.You can now either turn off the shadow and create a different one (because you ticked keep layers in the blue ice interface)

I moved this to tutorials by the way.

Here is the result using fg-bg gradient for active (black and white default), and an opposite curve than before.