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Can someone tell me or point me to a tut on how to go about creating shadows and glows for my custom icons?

Thanks!

silentdan Wrote:Can someone tell me or point me to a tut on how to go about creating shadows and glows for my custom icons?

Thanks!

Ha, wel i used a copy of my custom icon's then for shadow i turned hue and saturation up/down so i got all color gone and only have a white icon then added a white glow of 3 you could do a gausian blur then you have to try it out.(alpha channel white)

Glow used a copy of my icon then did the hue saturation trick again but opisite so i got a black icon.. now you have a black icon with black background in layer 2.
add a white glow of 18 to the black icon.*again you could try a gausion blur)
Now go to channels tab en copy 1 of the rgb channels and name it Alpha 1
Now go back to layer's tab and just color the whole picture white..
So now you have a white picture with in the alpha channel the glow icon.
Then select the alpha channel and choose transform and lock aspect ratio and rezise 50%
Now you have to try your glow icon and probebly go back into photoshop to reposition the icon..

NOTE making these icon's could be done some other way but this is how i did it..

Vegetano1 Wrote:

silentdan Wrote:Can someone tell me or point me to a tut on how to go about creating shadows and glows for my custom icons?

Thanks!

Ha, wel i used a copy of my custom icon's then for shadow i turned hue and saturation up/down so i got all color gone and only have a white icon then added a white glow of 3 you could do a gausian blur then you have to try it out.(alpha channel white)

Glow used a copy of my icon then did the hue saturation trick again but opisite so i got a black icon.. now you have a black icon with black background in layer 2.
add a white glow of 18 to the black icon.*again you could try a gausion blur)
Now go to channels tab en copy 1 of the rgb channels and name it Alpha 1
Now go back to layer's tab and just color the whole picture white..
So now you have a white picture with in the alpha channel the glow icon.
Then select the alpha channel and choose transform and lock aspect ratio and rezise 50%
Now you have to try your glow icon and probebly go back into photoshop to reposition the icon..

NOTE making these icon's could be done some other way but this is how i did it..

Hey thanks for the reply and im off to try that.
Thaks for replying!

Any question 's let me know..
Check out my Foster's home for Imaginary Friends theme and you can see my glow and shadow icon's, its white background so its not really good to see glow's but i have to make a new preview on youtube with dark background..
I positioned the shadow icon's in the middle behind the icon's so the shadow is all arround the icon instead off right below..

http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...p?tid=2388

Vegetano1 Wrote:Any question 's let me know..
Check out my Foster's home for Imaginary Friends theme and you can see my glow and shadow icon's, its white background so its not really good to see glow's but i have to make a new preview on youtube with dark background..
I positioned the shadow icon's in the middle behind the icon's so the shadow is all arround the icon instead off right below..

http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...p?tid=2388

Thanks for the help and i like the themes by the way.Is this also the way i do the maine top menu icons..the ones like network, games...etc.I know those icons don't have glow but they do have shadow and every time i try the shadow looks crapy and all over the place.
Thanks again bud! :)

silentdan Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:Any question 's let me know..
Check out my Foster's home for Imaginary Friends theme and you can see my glow and shadow icon's, its white background so its not really good to see glow's but i have to make a new preview on youtube with dark background..
I positioned the shadow icon's in the middle behind the icon's so the shadow is all arround the icon instead off right below..

http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...p?tid=2388

Thanks for the help and i like the themes by the way.Is this also the way i do the maine top menu icons..the ones like network, games...etc.I know those icons don't have glow but they do have shadow and every time i try the shadow looks crapy and all over the place.
Thanks again bud! :)

Uhh the topmenu were different ehh there are 2 shadows for the top menu if i am correct
I will check for sure tomorow