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What can i do to create nice beveled glossy effects for a web page layout.

I am looking to create a very crisp gossy (almost sculpted) bevel effect on a web page layout. A great example of this is the Fantasy Interactive site and the site they created for roadrunner.

www.fantasy-interactive.com
www.rr.com/flash

I know I won't be touching a site design of that caliber, but anything that could help create that professional glossy effect would be great.

I would also appreciate links to tutorials, but only if they are directly geared at this sort of thing. No links to tutorials on individual glossy buttons or anything of that nature.

-JQ

Sparkle101

You need to look into some 3d software and Flash to create some of those kind of images and shiny effects. Photoshop is 2d and the 3d effects you can create in Photoshop (with built in features) are mostly down to drop shadowing and beveling. Programs like Bryce or 3D Studio Max (and of course some more advanced CAD programs like AutoCAD) gives you a much wider possibility to get your image to interact with its surroundings. Of course a good Photoshop expert can always craft a 3d fake, but it's time consuming. Try search for photoshop, image, reflection, surface, tutorial in Google and see what comes up, heres one I found:
http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=3

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will_scarlet7

I hope it was a help. Sorry I could not give you more specific help as you were asking. I recommend patience and being thurough to learn the techniques so that you are prepared, and comfortable in the various things that you can do as an artist.

God bless!

Sam