So Im trying to make 3D effects through 2D proggies.
how the hell do you do it? I want to make some 3D buttons and stuff and then shine light sources on them how do you do it?

there are a few tutorials, do you know how to work with layermasks etc?

I'm not an expert at photoshop, but I'm very compitent in PS. when I have a moment, I'll dig up some good tutorials for you... I'm waist deep in about 45000 lines of code ATM, (hooray for complex php/MySQL web applications)

Give me about 45 mins or so to dig up some tuts and I'll post 'em when I've got 'em

aaron, you of all people i would think would know enough to just do a google search. there are tons of ps/is tutorials out there.

ok, so it was less then 45 mins... I needed to step away from the problem...

http://www.teamphotoshop.com/tut_photoshop...users/metal_button/metal_button.php

http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/...earch=&arrangep=title&submit=Submit

http://home.zonnet.nl/epragt/tutorials/photoshop/index.jsp.htm

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tutphotoshop.asp

http://www.cooljeba.com/tutorials/photoshop/3dbutton.html

http://www.rnel.net/tutorials/Photoshop/Buttons_Nav_Bars/11

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/11/120

http://www.pslover.com/search/button/3

http://www.savva.com.au/

Hope those help Rev

RustedAngel said:

of all people you should know not to use teeth!

I'm a moron, I would build things by pixels.
that is all about the gradient tool.thanks

im not sure about makin the 3d objects, but the light tools can be found in filter/render in photoshop.

that filter doesn't apply n objects in 3D..
so it would just apply on the a flat surface.

would the gift you got me for valentine\'s day 2 yrs ago help?
~carina

it would probably help if.. oh.. I don't know..
maybe you read it.

:p

~carina