Fools gold

I found a lot of yellow gold deep in the dark swedish forrest yesterday. If you want be Midas for a day this trick is for you.

1. Make a rough selection of the object you want to turn into gold and duplicate it into a new layer.
2. Add an adjustment layer curves and set it as clipping mask to the object and mess up the curve as much as you can.
3. Add another adjustment layer. This time we'll select hue/saturation and check the colorize check box. Adjust it until your object has the right gold hue.
4. Apply a gaussian blur to your gold object
Done!