Here is another simple tutorial. I will teach you how to make text similar to what blizzard uses. It is not 100% accurate but its a bloody cool text eitherway.
1. Download the morpheus font.
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=morpheus
2. write whatever you want in photoshop with the font.
3. Now go to layer style+gradient overlay
try to copy this configuration.
colors used:
#a55b0c
#dbaa09
#f3dd94
4. Now you can add some shadow effects... I will leave that part up to you.
5. Now go ahead and rasterize the layer so you can erase the little circles inside the letters... you may leave them there if you like em.
6. final product should look something like this.
hope you enjoyed my tut and atleast got some knowledge on how to properly do grafdients.
heres a tip. Experiment with different colors.