Metallic Skins and Photoshop

I don't use PhotoShop but try this site http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html

Or Here http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/

Try Ulead PhotoImpact, it has some cool filters for making metallic and plastic effects

metal is 'hot'. i.e. the reflections on metal are sharp and focused. The main tool you will use is the dodge/burn tool for stuff like this. On rubber, for instance, light spreads out fairly evenly, and not very harshly. It is hard to describe. Just get a couple of skins, one metal and one not, and then take note of how the light plays on the material. It will make sense to you. If you go to my ancient tutorial for ICQ Plus and look at the rubber button I make in one part of it, you can see an example of rubber.



That is one of the tutorials I am in the process of writing, actually, but right now by belly is too full of sushi to concentrate on it. Maybe later... http://www.geocities.com/bakerstr33t/

hang in there. it just takes practice.

p.s. under no circumstances use filters. it will look rotten and you'll not learn anything. Once you learn to use the dodge/burn tool, you can then use levels adjustments to make some filter-like adjustments, but the stuff that is done by hand is the best.

when I was a newbie I learned a lot of metalic stuff on this site. http://www.eyeball-design.com/index3.htm

now listen to baker: filters are eivel

have a look on: www.eyeball-design.com, they have very good tutorials

Wow, I wasn't expecting this many replys. Thanks to everybody! Now i have to go and read up on all this stuff