HolyPhoenix
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Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
I found out I was doing everything backwards. This is really exciting for me now that I know how to do it.
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2010, 03:37 PM by HolyPhoenix)
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| 03-28-2009, 02:43 PM |
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Nickman
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
Sweet. You use Photoshop or gimp or what?
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| 03-28-2009, 02:47 PM |
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HolyPhoenix
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
Actually believe it or not, I used paint.net. Shouldn't be too hard to mimick in gimp though. Paint.net makes everything faster though. Not as powerful a program. It's free too.
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| 03-28-2009, 03:02 PM |
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Splappy
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
(03-28-2009 03:02 PM)HolyPhoenix Wrote: Actually believe it or not, I used paint.net. Shouldn't be too hard to mimick in gimp though. Paint.net makes everything faster though. Not as powerful a program. It's free too.
Bah, it isn't that hard to make gloss in PDN, all you have to do is make a new layer, fill a section with white, and change the layer opacity.
I used to use PDN, now I use Gimp.
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| 03-28-2009, 04:32 PM |
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Polarbear541
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
I use GIMP as well but I recently got Button Shop which is quite good with fancy effects
Thanks, Polarbear541
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| 03-28-2009, 07:16 PM |
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Rob1991
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
I use gimp to get effects and nice gradients but achually sometimes i used normal PAINT, it takes me 10x longer to do an image, but i do it like pixel by pixel I normally manage to finish them, but any big images i end up giving up xDDDD
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| 03-28-2009, 07:25 PM |
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Polarbear541
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
lol well at least you try
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| 03-28-2009, 09:14 PM |
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HolyPhoenix
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
(03-28-2009 04:32 PM)Splappy Wrote: (03-28-2009 03:02 PM)HolyPhoenix Wrote: Actually believe it or not, I used paint.net. Shouldn't be too hard to mimick in gimp though. Paint.net makes everything faster though. Not as powerful a program. It's free too.
Bah, it isn't that hard to make gloss in PDN, all you have to do is make a new layer, fill a section with white, and change the layer opacity.
I used to use PDN, now I use Gimp.
Lol, no it isn't hard. When I do what you say to do though I only get a half good looking glossy effect. It never turned out quite right. This new method works a lot better.
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| 03-29-2009, 07:13 AM |
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Mexican(Ed)
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
Lol, and I thought I was the only one to use PDN.. :l
That's what I used to make my sigs.. >.>
But I know a guy on another forum who sorta 'overdoes' the gloss effect (He does it on about any image he makes)
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| 03-30-2009, 12:51 AM |
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Dalton
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RE: Finally Mastered the Glossy effect
I used to use PDN, still do sometimes. But using text on it is damn near impossible without having to redo it a bunch of times. :/
I use Photoshop now.
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| 03-30-2009, 10:46 AM |
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