m-cubed Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I have searched and found a number of tuts on how to create glassy icons and spheres. When I try to apply that to a screen shot I fail miserbaly. I did find one that I thought might help but there were no screens shots and I could not follow it. Here are the results I have achieved so far and as you can see they are horrible. Do y'all know of a tut or instructions on how to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Do you mean aero-style icons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Do you mean aero-style icons? Yeah, I think that's what he's looking for. Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 This may help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511280.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-cubed Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Nope what I meant at all.. though I always wondered about those as well. I want to make the screen shot somewhat photorealistic... just like glassy buttons have that sheen to them.. I want my screen shots and other pictures I have drawn like my logo etc to have that as well.... Oh and I am a she not a he...girlz rule! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 For Aero/glassy screenshots, I highly recommend Window Clippings, http://www.windowclippings.com It can take a screenshot in Vista/Win7 and also fully extract the alpha channel for a window. It also has a "Send to Paint.NET" feature where it will send the screenshot straight to Paint.NET, and it will already be set up as "Untitled" (i.o.w. it won't have the filename of the temporary PNG file). Try loading this image up in Paint.NET: Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-cubed Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 That is an awesome program thank you for that! Unfortuently though it does not get me any further. I still would like to know how to do it myself. Besides it will not always be screen shots. I have other images on which I would like to use the same effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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