How do you make things look 'shiny' in photoshop/gimp?

Question

GIMP solutions are preferable, but please tell anything you know.

Thanks,

-David

Answer 1

http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/effects/chrome/

Do a yahoo or google search for graphic chrome effect.

Answer 2

Sounds like you are talking about the bevel and emboss effect. On the layers menu at the bottom, it's an f in a black circle. This is the effects button for the particular layer you want 'shiny', which should be selected. Click it and select bevel & emboss. All you need to do is adjust the curve to look like a wave, unfortunately I cannot 'draw' that out in text so you can understand. It should look like a Sine wave in order to be 'shiny'. That is pretty much it, just adjust the percentages to get what you are looking for.

Answer 3

Things To Do With Gimp

Answer 4

this method should work either way but want you want to do is make a copy of the layer and then go to filters(photoshop), this might be different for gimp.

Anyways you want to select Gaussian blur, I do believe gimp has that then in your layer properties select lighten and your set.

here is a website that has a good index of gimp tutorials.

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/gimp/

Answer 5

Like Fred Flintstone.