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Go back to layers
- and activate the last layer you made.
Now go to Select - Load Selection - Alpha 1.
Hit D on your keyboard to select black as your foreground colour
and white your background colour.
Select the Linear Gradient Tool.
While holding down the Shift key fill your selection going from
the top to the bottom of your selection. Your image should now
look like fig. 8. Keep your selection...
Figure 8
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Make a new layer.
Select - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.
Select the Linear Gradient Tool:
Foreground colour Hex#{00,69,B3}, background colour = White.
Fill your selection going from the top to the bottom of your selection.
Your image should now look like fig. 9.
Figure 9
Now select black as your foreground
colour.
Edit - stroke - 1 pixel - inside
- opacity=100% - Mode=Normal.
Keep your selection. Make a new layer
- call it highlight.
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Select the Rectangular
Marquee Tool.
Hold down the Alt-key
and select the lower half of your selection.
Your selection should now look like fig. 10.
Figure 10
Select - Modify - Contract
- 3 pixels.
Select - Modify - Smooth - 2 pixels.
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Select the Linear Gradient
Tool.
Foreground colour = White and Background colour = Blue (Hex# 00,69,B3).
Hold down the Shift-key and fill your selection starting at the
top of your selection and ending 1-2 pixels below the selection.
Your image should now look like fig. 11.
Figure 11
Deselect (Ctrl + D).
Select the Move Tool and move the highlight layer 1 pixel up by
hitting the up-arrow-key once.
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Create a new layer -
highlight 2.
Select - Load Selection - Alpha 1.
Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool - hold down the Alt-key - and
select the upper half of the selection. Your image should now look
like fig. 12.
Figure 12
Select Modify - Contract - 4 pixels.
Select white as your foreground colour,
select the Linear Gradient Tool, and set the Gradient = Foreground
to Transparent (in the Linear Gradient Options window on the upper
right side of your screen). Hold down the Shift key and fill your
selection going from the bottom to the top.
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Your image should now
look like fig. 13.
Figure 13
Deselect (Ctrl + D). I turned down
the opacity on the hightlight 2 layer to 56.
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On my final image I
added some inset
lines, scanlines, and text with a bit drop shadow to make the
plastic look more realistic. (Effects - Drop Shadow - Mode: Multiply,
Opacity: 56, Angle: 120, Distance: 4, Blur: 4).
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