Name
Tag
by Mike
Ishigaki aka t3h t3rminator : 5 July 2004
Sorry if this takes a while to load for those with a slow
connection, I had to use high-quality JPEG exports to ensure
that all of my colors show. I will not go into complete
detail to ensure that my work is not ripped. I have made
this tutorial so that people can learn alternatives to Bevel
Emboss filters.
In this tutorial I will show
you how to create my "name tag" effect:
[ the effect
we will create]
Here is How
The following steps will explain what this tutorial will be
trying to explain.
- First we will make a rounded square by using the
Rounded Rectangle Tool. This tool can be accessed by
holding down your mouse over the Rectangle Tool and from
the drop-down menu selecting Rounded Rectangle Tool. Draw
your rectangle. In the Properties window, while your
rectangle is selected, you will be able to adjust color
settings and the roundness of the shape..
- In the Properties window, we will change the color of
the rectangle. We will use Linear Shading. From the
drop-down menu next to the color chooser, select "Linear."
My colors look like this:
- This first rectangle will be the rectangle that we use
for the metal effect. When you have our new rectangle
selected, go to the effects section of the Properties
window. We will apply two Inner Shadows and one Drop
Shadow. To get the glare in the metal, we will have one of
the Inner Shadows show a bright color, and another one to
show a dark color, which will help the eye that is viewing
the final product exaggerate the light color.
[ the metal]
- Press on the plus sign in the effects section of the
Properties window and navigate to where it says "Shadow
and Glow," from the menu that will appear after that
select Inner Shadow. Our first Inner Shadow, the
bright-colored one, will have properties like this:
- Now we will make the darker Inner Shadow. Press on the
plus sign, and navigate once again to the Inner Shadow
effect. Your properties should look something like this:
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Now, to make it look a bit cooler looking,
apply a Drop Shadow. The Drop Shadow effect can be
accessed from the same menu that you got the Inner Shadow
effect from.
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Now to make the LCD looking part of it, we
will make a new rounded rectangle. Change the properties
of this new rectangle to how you want. The rectangle
should be placed above the metal rectangle. Now on our new
rectangle we will color it to look like an LCD screen. My
settings are below:
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In this rectangle we will use once again,
two Inner Shadows and one drop shadow. Here, we will use
Inner Shadows to trick the viewer into thinking that there
is actually an indent in the first rectangle. My first
inner shaddow properties will look like this:
My second inner shaddow properties will
look like this:
My drop shadow is a very light drop shadow
that goes around the whole object, almost like a glow.
It's sole purpose is to avoid clipping between the two
very differently colored shapes (our first and second
rectangle.) The settings are as follows:
Now we should have something that looks like this:
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Now we can play with the pen tool to make
a custom shape that will appear as though the LCD screen
is very shiny. This custom shape should be transparent
white and will look something like this: (Just it should
be white, and not grey)
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In my work, I have added text in-between
the layer which contains the shine effect and the layer
that has the LCD looking rectangle.
I hope that in this tutorial
you have learned a lot about the shadow effects, a little
bit about highlights, and how to make a cool nametag!
If you have any questions or
comments feel free to post them in
Drawing & Design.
Cheers!
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