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Hey there AbsoluteCross,

I tried out your tutorial and thought I would take the time to say thanks. Sooo. Thanks! It was very easy to follow and lends itself very well to adapting to a persons imagination. There's only one difficulty I came across while doing it. I had a bit of a hard time with bevel. Something I've been trying to figure out for a long time actually.

When using bevel I often end up with jagged white highlights. I realize I could use the smooth slider but then I loose the depth of the bevel to a degree and it no longer has that certain sharpness we all strive for. I've attached my results from your tutorial. Do you have any suggestions on fixing up the jagged highlights? Particularly on the top leftish.

Again, many thanx for the tutorial.

Last edited by Schot, August 26th, 2006 06:46 AM (Edited 2 times)

Hello AbsoluteCross...

I just have a quick question about this tutorial. (It's excellent by the way) I am sort of new to Photoshop CS2 but I do know a good amount of the material.

Everything in the tutorial I can follow easily but I can't figure out how to blend those two circles at the beginning to get that soft effect. If there is some way you could show me... I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks again for the tutorial.

I'm with moonsphere I'm a bit confused on how I can blend the two circles together, Other than that it's beautiful!
Also having a smallll pinch of a problem making my buttons insert I tried reading your tutorial for that but I get stuck when it comes to the vector mask there seems to be a step missing or something thats making it so I cant select free transform. Can you address that?