Glass On Metal, Actual Size

6 Responses

1. Scott Cranfill

   As promised, crop of the top left at 100%.

   Does it look like a sheet of frosted glass? I dunno. Seems like it's missing that... je ne sais quoi. Any advice?

   almost 2 years ago

2. Philip McDaniel

   I find that glass effects always looks a little "blah" against certain backgrounds. It could be the gray.

   You might try adding a reflection or glare on the panel to liven things up a bit.

   Interested to see the rest of this design!

   almost 2 years ago

3. Scott Cranfill

   Thanks for the feedback, Philip. I have a hard time making glares that seem realistic.

   Anyway, I abandoned the "frosted glass" idea and just went for "ambiguous other material" and made it fit with the relief metaphor like I used on the logo. I'll post an update when I get a little further.

   almost 2 years ago

4. Pro Gareth Botha

   Any updates on this? I remember shooting some tips on frosted glass your way via Twitter back in the day before I was on Dribbble. Curious to see how this turned out!

   almost 2 years ago

5. Scott Cranfill

   Thanks for the follow-up :) As I mentioned above, I took it in a slightly different direction. You might be able to call it "fully-opaque frosted glass". You suggested adding the noise, right, Gareth? That worked very well. I'll post a follow-up shot soon.

   almost 2 years ago

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   Frosted Containers Redux As mentioned in comments on the precursor to this rebound, I abandoned the transparency idea and went with an opaque frosted look. I can't say that it accura... August 10, 2010

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   Frosted Containers Redux

   by Scott Cranfill

   As mentioned in comments on the precursor to this rebound, I abandoned the transparency idea and went with an opaque frosted look. I can't say that it accurately represents any specific real-world material, but it doesn't entirely matter.

   In this shot, you see the lower right portion of the homepage, which will have a main container and three smaller containers split out below it.

   Also, the brushed metal background has been updated to something more accurate and turned vertical.

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   almost 2 years ago