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Emulate this shadow


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Hi all,

i'm trying to emulate the shadow and highlight on this apple icon:-

login-screen-big.png%20(1440%C3%97900).jpg

But failing, any ides?

ps i am trying to create this shadow on text, so have tried the various drop shadows, inner and outer shadows, glows etc but to nothing resembling the shadow / highlights on this icon.

cheers
 
Ok sometimes its easier to just draw it by hand....saves you a lot of time and "trying out in vain"

The way I would do it is following steps;

1. create a fore- & background layer....ie. separate the colors. so the lighter gray would be the background, darker gray the foreground.
2. create a shadow layer above "Dark Gray layer" (top layer) use a darker version of the Dark Gray you already used and trace where you want the shadow. Turn the opacity down on the "Shadow layer" to around 45%, and use the smudge tool to blur the shadow into place.....
3. Make the shadow layer a Clipping mask onto the Dark Gray layer by pressing (Alt + Click between layers or Control Click for MAC)...this should hold it in place only on the inside of the apple.
4. Repeat #2 & #3 for the highlights, except that you would clip the highlights to the light gray layer.....viola, should do it.

hope that was helpful, it's just an alternative to Bevel & Emboss really.

I'll try to upload a Tutorial with Pictures later, but I'm at work right now :lol: ...oopsie.
 
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Pepperbel said:
Ok sometimes its easier to just draw it by hand....saves you a lot of time and "trying out in vain"

The way I would do it is following steps;

1. create a fore- & background layer....ie. separate the colors. so the lighter gray would be the background, darker gray the foreground.
2. create a shadow layer above "Dark Gray layer" (top layer) use a darker version of the Dark Gray you already used and trace where you want the shadow. Turn the opacity down on the "Shadow layer" to around 45%, and use the smudge tool to blur the shadow into place.....
3. Make the shadow layer a Clipping mask onto the Dark Gray layer by pressing (Alt + Click between layers or Control Click for MAC)...this should hold it in place only on the inside of the apple.
4. Repeat #2 & #3 for the highlights, except that you would clip the highlights to the light gray layer.....viola, should do it.

hope that was helpful, it's just an alternative to Bevel & Emboss really.

I'll try to upload a Tutorial with Pictures later, but I'm at work right now :lol: ...oopsie.
Click to expand...

To do this to text would be problematic at best. All you need is four layers:- Background, Text layer, A layer with a text shaped selection of the background. The .psd shows how to do it the easiest way possible for when doing this effect on text.
 
Ok spruce was right.....but I made a tutorial with the "Bevel/Emboss" option so you can see how to do it. It's very easy.... here's the link to the tutorial:

Click for Tutorial

And here is the image so you can see what it'll look like:

step5j.png
 
The red letters look like they are moving when i look at the apple logo, lol.
 
Just for impartialities sake, I thought it only fair that we show the logo of at least one of Apple's competitors.

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Can I just also say that before today, I had never done this effect, and without looking at any tutorials, I managed to get what I feel to be a reasonable result. I have on the odd occasion, picked up a tip from other peoples style, but on the whole, the things that I do in in Photoshop have been self taught. So I don't care if there is a quicker way, or a "better" way of doing something, as long as the end result is good, who cares how I got there!
 
Hats off to you....exactly what I was trying to say, only couldn't find the words. Self-teaching is the best way to learn because you remember it.

and love the edit. Nicely done.
 
Hell most of the time i just muddle through anyway Spruce, well said and very true THE FINAL RESULT IS ALWAYS WHAT COUNTS.
 
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