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Silkscreened Image in OS X Installer
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Silkscreened Image in OS X Installer


  • Subject: Silkscreened Image in OS X Installer
  • From: Matthew Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:14:21 -0400

This may be only in the 10.1 updater/installer, at least I only remember it in that one, but there is a really cool effect done in the main window. It is an image of an OS X CD actually part of the same horizontal piping as the back of a cocoa window, but the color has been blended into it. Does Apple publish how they achieved this effect?

The thing that's really neat about this is that it is visible through the second semi-transparent view that the progress bar exists in. I assume that such an effect can be accomplished by setting the background color to partial transparency. But how I "melt" an image into the background piping? Or is the whole background a custom image, and the blend performed in Photoshop or the like?


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