The Photoshop Guru's Handbook - "Creating the NUI" Part 3 - 2D & 3D (inDepth Interface project) Adding some ZIP to the View Screen - The first thing you'll need to do is to move the Reflection layer up just above the VS-Colour layer in the palette. Then change it's Blend mode to Softlight instead of Difference.Now for those bright streaks on the screen. - Click on the VS-Frame layer, then click on the New Layer icon. Name the new layer 'VS-Streaks'. Make your foreground colour white. Ctrl+click on the VS-Colour layer to select it's shape. Make sure your VS-Streaks layer is the active layer, then pick the Line tool and set the Width to 8. Now draw a line that runs across the middle of the screen area from left to right (it doesn't need to be perfectly centered), then apply a 2 pixel Gaussian blur to the layer.And lastly, the text part of it. I just used the date as my text, but you can use whatever you like. I used a digital type font for this also, but if you haven't got one, just use a good thin font that you like. Arial or Helvetica (Macs) bolded would work fine for our purposes here.GURU TIP: If you see really bright white spots across your text, it's from the VS-Streaks layer. Just turn that layers Opacity down a bit until the bright spots are slightly faded, but not gone. We need some to add dynamics to the text. And if your text is too faint, then turn up the Opacity a bit for that layer, just until you can sort of read the text. Don't make it perfectly clear though or the effect of it looking like it's within the screen will be lost. Layers palette getting too long? If your Layers palette is getting to long for you, you can compact (Merge) a few layers together here now. First, you need to link all of the View Screen layers together. Do that by clicking in the small space just to the right of the layers' Eye icons. You should see a small chain link image appear there. Do this for all of the View Screen layers you've created. Then click on the small black arrowhead pointing to the right on the top right side of the Layers palette, and from that menu choose 'Merge Linked'. Remember though, if you're using Photoshop 4 there's no History Palette like PS5 has; so you can't reverse this decision later. Be sure you want to do this before you merge these layers. Buttons / Texture Mapping / Adding Text > To the Top < > Back to "2D & 3D" < - Page 3b - |
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