Menu with your own photos

[ruccatala]

Hey guys,
When I modified my iPod theme to the Touch Hack, in the menu I put my photo with my nickname.
It's really pretty and cool. Look, this is my actually iPod:


And this is the menu image:


It's really nice, you can put your photo here with Photoshop or another program.


Have you ever created a menu of this kind?

[DarkWarrior]

Why didnt you make a .psd? It would have been simpler to replace the picture.
If you have the psd you should post it instead.

[xiaden]

I agree. a photoshop file will alow editing the file much much easier.

[ruccatala]

Oh no!, I lose the PSD file! I'm sorry...

But is easy to make it or like this, If you know how to make reflections and prespectives with Photoshop...


Thanks.

[ben200345]

I know how to do perspective, but anybody care to post a reflection tut?
I am using this tut for perspective: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/p...ts/paste-into/
Please help!

[DarkWarrior]

Yea its not hard its just that you were supposed to make this easier for newer ppl, and this dose not have that effect.

[ben200345]

Never mind, I found this tut on this site....http://www.ipodhacking.com/forum/showthread.php?t=632

[DarkWarrior]

lol thats what i was looking for i was gonna post that but i forgot we had an images section.

[ruccatala]

To make a reflecting with Photoshop you have to do this:

1. Put the photo (this is "the first photo") and duplicate the layer of the photo (this is the "second photo"). Now you have the same photo two times.
2. Select one of this photos and flips it vertically (Edit>Transform>Flip vertical). Now you have to put the second photo below the first photo - just like a mirror.
3. Now, with the second photo layer selected, go to "Mask Mode" (you can go to Mask Mode with the little button with a circle that's below the selector of colors - in the palette tools).
4. In the Mask Mode, you have to select the gradient tool, and made a gradient from top to bottom: start in the middle of the first photo (the non-reflected), and finalize the gradient at 3/4 parts of the second photo (the photo that will be the reflecting).
5. If you have done this, appears a gradient in red color. Now, you need to returns to the "Normal Mask".
6. When you are in the normal mask, there will be something selected. You have to delete this selection

And if you have done this step by step, you have a image with reflecting!



To make the prespective: it's easy. (To make prespective for a reflectings images like this, I recommend to combinate the two layers (the oringinal photo and its reflecting. Thus, you have the photo and its reflection in the same layer).

1. Select the layer to make the prespective.
2. Go to the menus Edit>Transform>Prespective.
3. Resize the prespective to your preference.
4. When you are finished, press the Enter key and click "Yes".


This is the tricks to do a reflecting with prespective! It's very cool and elegant, it's fashion and it's for the Web 2.0.

[DarkWarrior]

We kno theres a tutorial.