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Making a depressed look

Hi,
How do i make a depressed metal look?
Kinda like the panels at http://www.taigkhris.com (the ones that slide open, then slide back.
I want to know how to:
Make teh initial look (Thats when the panel first look like, so the user can know theres a panel there),

Then i want to knwo how to make it look "depressed" just as it was about to go under and slide away.

Thanks

abxccd:)

Unsure what you're talking about?? depressed metal look?? The only tabs I see are the ones on the navi that slide up when you clikc 'em.

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Hi phil

thanks for your reply

at http://www.taigkhris.com,
click the media button.
You will see how the subnavigation panel slides open.

Thats the effect i want.

Any ideas or tutes?

Thanks

that's something you would do in flash...I took one look at that site and knew that only 2advanced could make something like that...in a good way, lol, I don't mean to be...mean

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As meteroa said, the animation was done in flash, but the 'depressed' look I think your talking about is just shadows that give it the illusion of being inset. There are a variety of differnt ways to do it, the 'out of the box' solution would be to use an inner shadow layer style on the part you want to be inset and the other one would be to use a light airbrush and gradually build up shadows around the edges.

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hey caged, thanks for the input.
yea, i am trying to the the ps 7 work and not the animation..
Any tutes for that?

Thanks
abxccd

Make a layer under and fill it same shape w/ black then deselect and gaussian blur it

or
go to layer styles and add a drop shadow

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brushed metal: http://www.philoader.net/6/tut_brushedm.shtml

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to get it to "bevel up" just make a new layer on top and use pencil tool w/ 1px width foreground color white and draw a line on the left edges of your shape

change layer blending mode to softlight

and/maybe/if/you/want add a bevel on right side w/ black on same layer so its softlighted on the right side

select your shape on layer on top go edit>stroke by 1 pixel inside, drop transparency down

I guess. Sorry for scatteredness.. gather what you need.. you should see more or less where its going =\

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See attached. If that's what you are talking about, then I can make a tutorial for you (yes i'm bored). Most of the generalized stuff is posted above though.

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Nick
Pixel-Infinity

hey jadedchron,

thats what i am lookin for
Can you make a tute?

thanks
abxccd

Yeah, I'll do it later tonight.

BTW, after looking at that image again, as well as the site, the buttons remind me of sideways envelopes w/the red stamps... heh

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Nick
Pixel-Infinity