| Go to image, noise, add Use the setting shown. |
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| Your interface should now be looking somewhat like the one
shown. |
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| Let's add some wires now Add a new layer. Use your draw
tool set to freehand line, stroked, 5, antialias checked. Draw some lines
where you would want your wires. Make them a little wavey in some places
and use a couple of colors. Use the magic wand tool to select the wires
(I had to hide my interface layer to select the wires. For some reason
it wanted to select part of the interface) Apply an innerbevel as shown. |
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| Now go to image, effects, dropshadow and apply a dropshadow
using these settings. You can use the eraser tool to get rid of anything
that hangs over the edges of the interface. |
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| If you aren't planning on making a mouseover interface you
can merge visible all the layers and add a dropshadow. Add a new layer
and move it under the interface. Fill it with your background color or
texture. |
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| For a mouseover interface: add a dropshadow to the interface,
then make sure you are back on your buttons, circle or small rectangle
layer and then duplicate each of those layers. Name them something so
you will remember that they are the colorized layers. Be sure you are
on the layer that you want to colorize. Now go to colors, colorize. You
can play around with the settings till you find a color that you like.
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Add a new layer and move it under the interface. Fill it with
a color or texture. Hide your colorized layers and merge visible the remaining
layers. Save this as interface off. Go back to your image and undo till you
have all the layers back again. Hide the original layers and merge visible
the background, interface and the colorized layers. Save this as interface
on. Now the image needs to be sliced if it is going to be a mouseover interface.
I use Dicer. You can download it from here
if you would like. Click here
to see a tutorial on how to use Dicer.
