Emulate this shadow

[rapscallion]

Hi all,

i'm trying to emulate the shadow and highlight on this apple icon:-



But failing, any ides?

ps i am trying to create this shadow on text, so have tried the various drop shadows, inner and outer shadows, glows etc but to nothing resembling the shadow / highlights on this icon.

cheers

[iDad]

Try a little bevel and Emboss

[sprucemagoo1]

Just look at the .psd . I'm sure you will figure out how I have done it!
apple.psd

[Pepperbel]

Ok sometimes its easier to just draw it by hand....saves you a lot of time and "trying out in vain"

The way I would do it is following steps;

1. create a fore- & background layer....ie. separate the colors. so the lighter gray would be the background, darker gray the foreground.
2. create a shadow layer above "Dark Gray layer" (top layer) use a darker version of the Dark Gray you already used and trace where you want the shadow. Turn the opacity down on the "Shadow layer" to around 45%, and use the smudge tool to blur the shadow into place.....
3. Make the shadow layer a Clipping mask onto the Dark Gray layer by pressing (Alt + Click between layers or Control Click for MAC)...this should hold it in place only on the inside of the apple.
4. Repeat #2 & #3 for the highlights, except that you would clip the highlights to the light gray layer.....viola, should do it.

hope that was helpful, it's just an alternative to Bevel & Emboss really.

I'll try to upload a Tutorial with Pictures later, but I'm at work right now ...oopsie.

[sprucemagoo1]

Ok sometimes its easier to just draw it by hand....saves you a lot of time and "trying out in vain"

The way I would do it is following steps;

1. create a fore- & background layer....ie. separate the colors. so the lighter gray would be the background, darker gray the foreground.
2. create a shadow layer above "Dark Gray layer" (top layer) use a darker version of the Dark Gray you already used and trace where you want the shadow. Turn the opacity down on the "Shadow layer" to around 45%, and use the smudge tool to blur the shadow into place.....
3. Make the shadow layer a Clipping mask onto the Dark Gray layer by pressing (Alt + Click between layers or Control Click for MAC)...this should hold it in place only on the inside of the apple.
4. Repeat #2 & #3 for the highlights, except that you would clip the highlights to the light gray layer.....viola, should do it.

hope that was helpful, it's just an alternative to Bevel & Emboss really.

I'll try to upload a Tutorial with Pictures later, but I'm at work right now ...oopsie.

To do this to text would be problematic at best. All you need is four layers:- Background, Text layer, A layer with a text shaped selection of the background. The .psd shows how to do it the easiest way possible for when doing this effect on text.

[Pepperbel]

Ok spruce was right.....but I made a tutorial with the "Bevel/Emboss" option so you can see how to do it. It's very easy.... here's the link to the tutorial:

Click for Tutorial

And here is the image so you can see what it'll look like:

[Paul]

The red letters look like they are moving when i look at the apple logo, lol.

[Pepperbel]

The red letters look like they are moving when i look at the apple logo, lol.

that's cuz I'm the illusionist.....but don't tell anyone....or I'll have to kill you

[Paul]

Lol, it's magic...

[sprucemagoo1]

Just for impartialities sake, I thought it only fair that we show the logo of at least one of Apple's competitors.



Can I just also say that before today, I had never done this effect, and without looking at any tutorials, I managed to get what I feel to be a reasonable result. I have on the odd occasion, picked up a tip from other peoples style, but on the whole, the things that I do in in Photoshop have been self taught. So I don't care if there is a quicker way, or a "better" way of doing something, as long as the end result is good, who cares how I got there!