The basic idea of making things shiny is to give it something to reflect. If you mess with the luminosity curves (adjustments:curves), you can give the object the illusion of reflecting something around it, making it shiny. The other thing you could do is forget everything I said and download the "metallize" plugin
. It's basically a quick luminosity curve mod that does it all for you. Warning: it may produce odd and unwanted effects (messed up lighting for example)
EDIT: Gold text tutorial
if that's not shiny enough, click on the left-most piece in my sig (the one labeled "chrome"). If you play with that effect and color tint the object, that might work too
I'll keep updating as I find the mentioned helpful links:Conditional hue/saturation methodcurves method
Edited by pdnnoob, 11 June 2010 - 01:14 AM.