NINES'S PROFILE

Is "Raisin Bread" your phoenix down-ish item? If not, it should be...

Here's a little somthin I came up with; I tried to give it a good "bronze-y" look:

http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/8496/locker/bronzesoulidea.png

I only used the font I did because I don't have any script-style fonts that are bold enough to work.

Here's a screenshot of the bevel settings I used:
http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/8496/locker/bronzesoulbevelsettings.png
Note the contour shape, highlight/shadow modes, and shadow color. This gives it that metallic sheen. I chose green because I thought it looked nice, but you could use any color really.

..and to get the chrome reflection effect I did this:

-Create a new layer. Put in a few bands of white-to-transparent gradients. Rotated/shifted it around until it fits over the text the way I want it to.
-Ctrl+clicked the text layer in the layers window (which "magic-wands" the text).
-Contracted the selection by 5 (1+the size of my bevel, 4).
-Invert selection.
-Making sure I'm on the layer I made the gradients, delete selection (this erases everything outside the contracted text).
-Set layer to Color Dodge.
-Decreased the lightness of the gradients to make it orange-ish (or I could have just made the gradients grey to begin with).

Also, note the placing of the individual letters. There's something kinda cool in there...

It's supposed to be an old hidden path that hasn't been used in a long time. Even though there's a perfectly good treasure chest just sitting in the middle of it :P

Looks more like they're riding invisible war ostriches.

Alright; I tweaked the title just a bit.