ThatsMeThatsRight Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 How can I make (for instance) a logo of glass. For example how can you turn this a flat logo like this one into a shiny glass button? In this forum there are several tutorials about making glass buttons or text, but how can I make an existing object of glass. Im not that much of a pro, but I tried some things with making an extra white/transparent gradient layer. This wasn't very succesful though. Any ideas? edit: The Apple logo is a perfect example of what I mean, these are two random logo's I picked from google, but the first one is a flat Apple and the second one has the effect that I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 I'd use a lot of the magic wand tool, gradient tool, and several layers. If you want, I'll make a .PDN file and upload it so you can see what I did. It may take a little while, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatsMeThatsRight Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 So it's easier to make a whole new glass button than turning a flat image in a glass button? I think its very cool (and a goog exercise) to turn objects or logo's into a glass button. Maybe a round logo is the easiest, but also logo's of car brands could make a cool effect. How much effort would it be to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 I used the black apple image you provided and got this: <-- little choppy 'round the edges :\ Less choppy when smallified... I mostly used white to transparent gradients for highlights, as well as some blues for the apple's color. And the .PDN file: http://www.freewebs.com/andrewm16921/PD ... /Apple.pdn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Here's my try... Quote  Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatsMeThatsRight Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 Nice job on the apple logo! I've tried it on the starbucks logo There's a slight difference between just a white haze and a glass effect. The original file has a bit of a crappy logo, but I also made a starbucks-green shadow around the logo. Why did you add the green line in the apple logo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatsMeThatsRight Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 Here's my try...[attachment=0]starbucks_glass.png[/attachment] That did work out well. How did you get the sort of 3d effect on the starbucks letters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Why did you add the green line in the apple logo? That was for my use (and to show you) for where the one hightlight is, that has a noticable edge. I used it to help me select that area with a nice, realistic curve to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 How did you get the sort of 3d effect on the starbucks letters?basically...I duplicated the image, made the top layer b&w, inverted the color, made a Level adjustment that changed all of the grays to white, Unfocus blurred it to 4px, drew a really thick black squiggly line across the center, selected everything below the line and made it black as well, moved the layer down and to the right about 5px, set the blending mode to 'Screen', drew a gradient in 'Transparent Mode' to blend the highlight... The bottom highlight was made in a similar manner... Here is what my highlight layer looked like when I was done. Quote  Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 O.O Too much work for me :X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephan Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Did the Apple Logo. Took me 20 minutes: Actually it's twice as big, but then it also looks a bit jaggy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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