For me the key is abrupt gradients from one value of the surface's
hue to another. A transparent white layer works well over any
greyscale surface, but washes out the color for anything else. To
make this easier, I wound up using HSV colors instead of RGB. Keep
the hue the same and play with the saturation and brightness on
both sides of the gradient transition. Transparency then doesn't
really help much. This means you have to render the whole thing
separately for every color scheme though.
You can add a little extra dimension to the look by using curved
gradients, like on the Default.png icon they give you for widgets.
I'm a programmer rather than a graphics guy, and I wind up doing
mine programatically with gradient fills and bezier paths, so I
don't have a lot of images lying around, resizing is easy, and
color schemes can be changed willy nilly without going back to
Photoshop.
-Tom
On Saturday, May 14, 2005, at 09:48 AM, Jesus De Meyer wrote:
Hi,
This isn't really about widget development but it's an important
part of it. I was wondering if somebody has some tips about making
the glassy effect most widgets have. I have my own method but I
wonder how others do it.
The glass effect I'm talking about is that shine you can see here:
http://images.apple.com/downloads/macosx/images/
dashboardmainheader20050429.jpg
What I do is, in Photoshop, I create a new layer, with white and
then drop the opacity to about 20 or 30%. How do you guys do it?
Cheers,
Jesus
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