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Dec/11 2007 by Maik Borchardt

The Screen within the screen, Photoshop Basics

Playing EVE-Online the other night I took a closer look at some of the effects they are able to create within the game. Some of them are as powerful as they are simple. I would like to show you how to create the effect of a screen within you Ventuz project.

First you create the pixel map of RGB-pixels in Photoshop.

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Dec/11 2007 by Markus (mbeekay) Burger

It’s about the "glass effect"

As seen in tv commercials or on websites - it’s very popular to use glass-look graphics.
Working for Microsoft at the Cebit 2007 to create the stunning speaker presentations we used a lot of this glass texture effects based on the Aero-UI of Windows Vista…

microsoft_cebit2007

But how to create a nice looking glass button?
One thing about a nice “glass effect” is the fact to use always a sharp and smooth edge.

Let’s take a look on the pictures to describe in more detail what i mean by that:

button_sharp_edge 

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