----------------------------------- templest Mon May 31, 2004 9:43 am tell me what I'm doing wrong. ----------------------------------- I drew the capsule button fairly well, but I'm trying to make a "crystal ball" now, doing basically the exact same stuff, but it doesn't come out right. It looks WAY too fake. Tell me what you thinkI have to do to fix it. :cry: ----------------------------------- Tony Mon May 31, 2004 1:01 pm ----------------------------------- the highlight oval on top ruins it... maybe if you were to blur it's edges :think: ----------------------------------- templest Mon May 31, 2004 2:21 pm ----------------------------------- grab a marble and shine a flashlight over it, the edges don't blur. ;) I'm going for the realistic as possible. EDIT: It's the raw PNG drawn in Fireworks so you can open it up and see the all the individual layers and applied effects and see what I'm doing wrong as well. ----------------------------------- Catalyst Mon May 31, 2004 11:22 pm ----------------------------------- better? ----------------------------------- Amailer Mon May 31, 2004 11:43 pm ----------------------------------- I think you need to make the shine or w/e you wanna call it.. it's optical needs to be a bit less so it blends in with the rest of the picture. ----------------------------------- templest Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:35 am ----------------------------------- nice catalyst, :D, why didn't I think of that? :wink: Amailer, I have no idea what you just said. :P ----------------------------------- Mikleena Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:39 am Re: tell me what I'm doing wrong. ----------------------------------- Friend its perfect, no need to change here. Nice and very beautiful work, but if you like to changing something in it then you should change its text design. Keep this fine work. Thanks for sharing this.