enamel effect (white chrome)

[urbanjackal]

Hey!

I saw this site www.trendax.com and fell deep in love with the white chromelike interface and was told i could make a similiar effect in photoshop 7 so i tried, and got nowhere. so maybe some of you PS Pro's could give it ago and tell me how you did it. maybe throw the blending options my way...

Ben aka Urbanjackal....
:rock:

[DDD]

there is a sticky postabove this one with a bunch of tuts sites. Go to void x or robo uk the have some pretty good metal tuts that you could do then bend the technique to fit your situation

[Soul]

That white is really sexy :love:

- Soul :s:

[mlk]

Well the thingy on the pic was definitely made with a 3d prog and maybe enhanced with PS. YOu can do pseudo-3d with photoshop, giving the chrome effect and everything but it will never look as good as a modeled interface:

here is egeek's site, i think the interface was made with C4D:
http://www.electrongeek.net/main.html

now here's 100% photoshop fake-3d:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26224

basically you have to play with the layer options/brushes/color contrasts

cheers, mlk

[VisualAid]

hey thats my photoshop interface :D.

I doing it in photoshop because 3d progs baffle me :P

I got cinema 4d which i'll try

[eyeinfinitude]

The Trendax site was designed by WhosWe Studios so it was definitely created with a 3D program.

Some PS might have been used as well to clean it up. If you want a true looking 3D interface, use a 3D program to build the majority of it.

[DDD]

if you want a easy 3d proggy try swift 3d...hey egeek nice site man.....is that a new one??

[eyeinfinitude]

Thanks 3d, yeah it's pretty new. =)

[morse]

Hye eg, how do you do the interfaces in c4d?

[eyeinfinitude]

I start out with platonic objects and mold them using the x,y,z axis as a guide.

[twilight]

EG what file type do you save it as? for importing into flash

[eyeinfinitude]

I render it out of C4D as .tif and from photoshop, I usually export it out as either .png if it has transparencies or .jpg if it doesn't have any transparencies.

[mlk]

and C4D and all 3d progs allow alpha layers (ie renders and extra b&w image wich sets the transparency...) all you gotta do is take your image, take the alpha layer, trace it into two colors in flash and you've got your interface...

[DDD]

huh?