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Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-13-2000 05:29
Ok, I've got something cooking here that could turn out to be cool. I'm thinking about making kind of a wood inlay weird looking UI for a web site I'm doing. Tell me what you guy's thing on the types of wood and how I can make it look more like it's lnlayed into the background wood. |
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: the Psychiatric Ward |
posted 12-13-2000 06:01
ooh... that is cool, you need someting like a pillow emboss effect.... heh.. i did a really quick one by hand here... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in media rea |
posted 12-13-2000 08:31
hmm, hacked out a really cheap version with layer effects, and a few layer blends. |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: atlanta, ga, usa |
posted 12-13-2000 13:37
Loki: It doesn't look embedded in the wood at all. You'll need some kind of shadowing or inner glow to make it look like it's really in the wood. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Mi, USA |
posted 12-13-2000 14:11
hats off to ya again DG, thats sweet looking, can actually see that carved in my door here at home <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-13-2000 23:11
DG: That's some pretty cool stuff, Yeah, if you could post a PSD I'd dig it. That's pretty much the look I'm after. |
Bipolar (III) Mad Scientist From: Camillus, NY, USA |
posted 12-13-2000 23:15
Yeah, try the pillow emboss with a really low blur setting. |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-13-2000 23:39
hey, I'm trying the embossing thing, and well I'm getting weird knot things in the wood it's really strange cause I don't see them unless I' emboss it and I can't seem to get rid of them. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: in media rea |
posted 12-14-2000 00:54
Loki: |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Modesto, CA. |
posted 12-14-2000 03:13
A question??? I don't know what's wrong here, everytime I try to visit the two sites on this post that have PSD files on them, I get the image but my Quicktime player thinks it's a movie??? I can't right click it to download or examine or anything. I don't have any problems with any other files, just PSD. Is there a setting somewhere I can adjust or correct to make my browser know what a PSD file is & not think it's a Quicktime movie??? Thanks in advance & have a good one..... |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Mi, USA |
posted 12-14-2000 03:17
if your running on windows OS try 'shift-click' on the link <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
posted 12-14-2000 03:24
You have to right-click and choose "save target as". |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Modesto, CA. |
posted 12-14-2000 03:53
Thanks for the help guys, I'm running Windows 98 SE, but your suggestions didn't help, because whenever I right or left clicked on anything nothing happened. But alls not lost. I kept digging around the files on my computer & found the files associations preferences hidden deep in my system for Quicktime. After changing them all is well. I don't know how or when my system figured it would use Quicktime to open Photoshop files????? Thanks again & have a good one..... |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Mi, USA |
posted 12-14-2000 04:00
*slaps forehead* more detailed description coming up.... |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Modesto, CA. |
posted 12-14-2000 04:19
Thanks VP.....I already knew about right clicking on a link & saving to, I just couldn't figure out why, once on a web page, I couldn't right or left on an image to download it, Now that I've changed the associations in Quicktime, everything is fine. The last time I slapped myself on the forehead, I missed & broke my glasses, knocked myself down, spilled my beer, threw my back out & couldn't remember who I was for 5 days...be careful. Have a good one..... |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Mi, USA |
posted 12-14-2000 04:26
hehe.. broken glasses I can live with.. but spilling my beer?.. eeeek.... no way!.. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-14-2000 04:27
It doesn't think it's a movie it thinks it's a PSD file. IE doesn't open PSD files so the nice people at Quicktime thought that they'd take the exstension before anyone else got the bright idea, not thinking that PSD is NOT a file type good for web pages. Send a nasty letter to apple and tell them to stop that. |
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: the Psychiatric Ward |
posted 12-14-2000 05:03
of course, the dark garden has done it again... |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-15-2000 00:10
Anyone got a tut on pillow embossing/embossing without layer effects? I'll post my new graphic here in a few but I'd like a little better emboss before I do. |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-15-2000 00:55
Here we go, taking another shot at the stuff, Do you think I need to make my bevels more obvious or does this look good? |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Hoorn NH, The Netherlands |
posted 12-15-2000 02:28
Yo, Loki. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: The Moldy, Rainy State |
posted 12-15-2000 02:33
I think the pillow emboss is a way to go, but tone down the edges severely. It only needs like, an incline of one pixel, (someone posted an example at something like 4 or 5). Maybe even a really sharp black outline, just to sort of give it the groove effect. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: The Moldy, Rainy State |
posted 12-15-2000 02:53
Try these settings: |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-15-2000 03:10
I just can't seem to get the RR in the middle to look right... The RR currently has PhotoChild's emboss suggestion on it. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: |
posted 12-15-2000 05:10
That picture is rad man. I really dig it. The only thing that i see as a problem is that it seems that there is a highlight towards the upper right corner of the background wood. It's partially covered by the darker inlay, but the highlight doesn't transfer onto the inlay. To me atleast, this makes it look as though the darker wood is hovering over the background, not quite connected. I don't really know how to fix that, just something i noticed that could make it a really tight graphic. |
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Vancouver,WA |
posted 12-15-2000 05:12
You mean the upper left? You think that's whats throwing it off? hummm... I don't know why it is there in hte first place I think DG (in all his phatness) ot me on that idea with my original pic... |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Long Island, NY |
posted 12-15-2000 05:24
I swear didnt we have like the exact same topic going about a month ago. I think we all got really into it too and started making our own "carved wood" images. Anyway Peter, why are you just awesome? |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Modesto, CA. |
posted 12-15-2000 05:57
Loki.....I played with this for a while after dinner, but I don't know if it's what your looking for????? I reduced the layers to about 6, and the PSD file size is a little over 1 meg. Have a good one..... |
Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate From: reading pa usa |
posted 12-15-2000 06:04
Loki, I am not sure if I am too late to add a bit of imput into this. First off, I was looking at some of the inlay work I have in furniture around the house and actually what you have already done is very close to the proper look, it is meant to be very smooth looking. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: buttcrack of the midwest |
posted 12-15-2000 06:05
I`m not sure exactly what you`re looking for, but *inlaid* leaves a smooth, flat surface. * Beveled *has edges sloping up (or down) from the edge. What I see is more like leaded glass beads, rounded and welded looking. |