Photoshop Tutorial: Making Mac-style program navigation

This tutorial mainly uses Photoshop to make the Mac-style program navigation icon, in order to make the icon look more impact, I chose a larger perspective angle, so in order to ensure that the perspective of accurate use of 3Ds Max first built a simple model. Later in the PS production, the following let us study together.

Menueverywhere is a small program on Mac OS X that just finished the program icon design for a while ago.

Creative Goals

Binary Bakery Software production of this small program is mainly used to add a menubar to each window, convenient in the monitor or window a lot, it is not easy to find OS X original menu bar when users can easily choose the menu bar options. Customers want to highlight the theme of the software-menus, and to increase the user's visual mapping of the real-world use environment

Authoring process

In order to make the icon look a bit more impact, I chose a larger perspective angle, so in order to ensure that perspective accurate use of 3Ds Max first built a simple model.

When the styling OK starts redrawing in Photoshop, first the bottom plate.

Add a little metal texture to the plate.

And then according to the customer's idea, on the chassis to add the feeling of purple light, mainly for and the Mac system default desktop visual style to generate a map to the user menu can be directly on the desktop pop-up feeling.

Then there was the light that increased some of the color changes

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