• Adobe Photoshop

  reflective 3D buttons & graphics

  Posted by Tom Ma on February 12, 2008 at 1:56 am

  I have a number of flat logo’s that I need to make look more 3 dimensional. Not true 3D but more reflective shading, like the type of buttons you see, on Apple’s website etc..

  https://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore

  also

  https://abcnews.go.com/

  essentially I guess these are just overlays, added, multiplied or screened over the graphic.

  Is there a stock image source for this type of thing?
  or perhaps a set of plugins that does this?

  Thanks!

  Vincent Rosati replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Vincent Rosati

  February 12, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  If you’re referring to the shiny buttons, it’s often referred to as the ‘aqua technique’, or ‘apple aqua technique’, or ‘aqua buttons’. It can be accomplished in raster and vector!
  Just do a search and you will find a ton of tut’s covering the subject. 🙂

  Vince
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  Tom Ma

  February 12, 2008 at 8:17 pm

  hate to sound lazy (more like busy) but..
  are there any PS plugins (or maybe PS macro’s) that can accomplish this?
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  Vincent Rosati

  February 13, 2008 at 12:47 am

  Maybe this’ll do…
  https://www.web–templates.org/buttons/aqua-button-generator.html

  I just searched for ‘aqua button generator’.

  Vince

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