bare metal

[turbo_skylane]

i have photoshop 7, and i would like to know how to do bare metal finishes.

[wji]

I submit bare-metal textures are artistic creations like any other visual effect. (To create chrome make the blacks 100 percent opacity) before converting to DXT3.
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[turbo_skylane]

best i got was

[lh211]

handpainting bare metal is art, not dumping a crapload of alpha all over the bitmaps

bare metal is among the hardest (if not the hardest) things to be good at

[Felix/FFDS]

Turbo - now start varying the opacity of the alpha until you get the "sheen" you want....