Cool Photoshop effects

[Gary S]

Tacit,

How about front to the future.  

[Spartacus]

QUOTE(Bruce_F @ May 13 2003, 7:35 PM)

This isn't new by any means, but I thought it might fun to share once more.

When the gel button was first introduced, I decided to try and duplicate it and this image is how it turned out.


People wanted to know how it was done, so I made a tutorial:

Button Tutorial

Along with the tutorial, it seemed appropriate to share this:

Stuffed Photoshop Document

 

 Hey Bruce,

first of all:
thanks for that wonderful tutorial!

However, I am having some problems with making my button transparent.
I didn't understand your tutorial regarding that issue.

I have uploaded my button so you can see what I mean.
Without the transparency it still looks cool, but lacks the "Aqua"-effect.



One more thing. Which version of PS did you use? My PS 7 looks completely different. It took me some time to figure out what to do in my PS's menus.

[Bruce_F]

Lukas, it has been awhile since I did that button tutorial. I had to look at the layers in the Photoshop file to recall what I did.  

If you downloaded the Photoshop (6, I think) file I did, you can click on each layer and look at the settings for each.

The "button" layer is set to Multiply to allow the lines to show through.

It could be that I missed some details when I put the tutorial together.