metallic things

[mx70kc]

how do you make the metallic letters and pipes on photoshop? the straight ones and the bendy ones

 

[jimoblak]

Make your 'pipes' with plain grayscale shading (bevel) to show mass then go to curves (CTRL-M or CMD-M) and make the letter 'M' with the graph. Add more zigzags in the graph for more 'reflections'.

 

[mscallisto]

PhotoshopRoadmap site points to this utility that looks quite nice.

http://www.autofx.com/dreamsuite/effect_pages/metalmixer.html

Perhaps you can get some ideas to try for yourself.

muck luck

 

[sdraper]

checkout the interface and text effectssection of

http://psworkshop.net

There are tons of ways to achieve the metal text and pipes effect
sdraper