Apple chrome effect...

**Gomi** · 06-30-2005, 02:51 PM

ive been googling and yahooing and up to my neck with web searches looking for a tutorial on how to get the chrome effect that apple has been using since panther with no luck. if anyone here can help or give a little tip on how to do this in ps, i would gladly appreciate it... i need the effect for a project im working on...

this is what im after...

i can do the aqua effects almost as second nature now but i just cant get the right consistency for the chrome... natch!

salamat!

**Sponsor** · 06-30-2005 02:51 PM

**super_ed** · 06-30-2005, 03:04 PM

play around the ff. tools in PSD

path/ shape tool
gradient (grey (nearly white), blue(ish) to white/ transparent)
opacity
very little layer effect (bevel, shadow)

**Alvin777** · 12-19-2005, 07:53 PM

Hi. They might have painted that logo using layers instead of using the transparency adjustment used for aqua, that's why it doesn't have the tutorial. I think the layers for that are. Though I think in digital painting, layering is like cheating but it works:

Layer 1: the official outline of the Apple logo they keep with that slash drawing in the middle, done in Illustrator

Layer 2: painting with blending brushes, done with Painter (like my avatar)

Layer 3: white paint for those highlights, some drawings for the outline

Then everything is dropped or merged with the original Layer (that layer with the lock).

God bless,
Alvin

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**lamski** · 12-19-2005, 08:34 PM

A few years back, there was a Photoshop plugin calld KPT Bryce. I don't know if it still exists but it had a neat chrome effect that could easily duplicate the apple chrome logo.

Originally posted by Gomi
ive been googling and yahooing and up to my neck with web searches looking for a tutorial on how to get the chrome effect that apple has been using since panther with no luck. if anyone here can help or give a little tip on how to do this in ps, i would gladly appreciate it... i need the effect for a project im working on...

this is what im after...

i can do the aqua effects almost as second nature now but i just cant get the right consistency for the chrome... natch!

salamat!