I’ll be using Photoshop CC but every step is fully compatible with Photoshop CS6 and with earlier versions of Photoshop. About This Class Creating the Gold Effect With Headlines and Fonts Objects Logos Learn How to Create Gold Gradients Learn How to Save Layer Presets to. To create the gold text, we’ll use Photoshop’s layer styles, and we’ll create our own custom gold color gradient! We’ll even add a few sparkles to the text using one of Photoshop’s brushes to make our gold letters really shine. How to create gold text in Photoshop! Turn letters into gold with this easy to create text effect in Photoshop CC and CS6.