The production of chrome-gold graphic effect

Graphics many friends may be using PS for graphics processing in the process of making some chrome effects, it is not realistic to make chrome-gold effects directly on the graphics in FW, even if you have installed the complete eye Candy 4000 filter, but if you think about the problem in a different way, We have found that some of the possibilities have become possible, and we'll learn how to use FW to make chrome-plated graphics effects, first of all, to look at the results that have been completed in the figure below.

"Making Steps"

1, according to the "Ctrl+r" key combination to import the need for graphics effects processing pictures, this example import pictures as shown in the following image,

[note] In order to facilitate the following steps, you can right-click on the picture and save the picture as a local machine for the same graphics processing as in this example.

2, in the editing area to draw a rectangular object, in order to facilitate understanding, the rectangle is slightly smaller than the bitmap object, the fill color used here is white, now the editing area of the graphic effect is shown in the following figure.

3, select the White Rectangle object, select the properties panel on the effect menu in the "Eye Candy 4000| Chrome effect command, set in the Pop-up Chrome Effect Settings window. The "Reflection Map" option uses the default "Outdoor.tif" and does not adjust; bevel width of the numerical setting to do so that the entire rectangular object to achieve the effect of the filter, do not leave a bit of the original color, so try to be larger; ripple The number of the width can be set smaller, so that the interface will be more ups and downs. The specific parameter settings can be seen in the following figure.

4, after setting, the edit area of the object will be shown in the following figure.

5, the key step, is also the final step to produce the final effect. Select the Bitmap object, press the "ctrl+x" key combination, select the rectangle object that applies the filter effect, select the menu command "Modify | mask | Paste as Mask", and appear as shown in the following illustration of the chrome-gold graphic effect.

The overall graphics can also do some other aspects of the effect processing, such as to add a projection effect operation, the final effect as shown in the following figure.

[Hint] in order to make the final completion of the effect more prominent, in the selection of the need for chrome effect processing bitmap objects need attention, as far as possible to choose some image color rich pictures to deal with, for the use of a single color or similar to the entire image of the color of the operation of this section, the final effect is not very ideal. I hope you will pay attention to this.


Well, about chrome-plated graphics effect of the content of all explained, with other filters and mask command operation, do not know how many beautiful effects can be produced! Come on, man!