@dinandmentink@mastodon.online
2026-09-29 06:58 UTC
@Firlefanz@writing.exchange Thanks for the response and compliment! I’m really happy with it (although, to be fair, I will probably keep prutsing a little more)
So, about the letters. I'm not 100% sure how your designer did it (because I'm reverse-engineering it). But I think it's this, which is how I did it:
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@dinandmentink@mastodon.online 2026-09-29 06:59
@Firlefanz@writing.exchange 1. A stockphoto of sheet metal. Preferably something light with high contrast. (I still think I could find a better one. The one your designer uses is superb.) 2. Make the letters/stripes/whatever as vector and then add these as a transparency mask to the sheet metal. This is key. This cuts all layers down to just the letters. 3. Add an inner glow and drop shadow to these letters. 4. Some broad white strokes with 20% opacity. This adds the "shine"