How was this glass effect created?

[Tech Star]

I have been messing around with photoshop & illustrator these past few weeks and have been learning a lot. I have been finding designs that I like online and I try to recreate them. However, no matter what I try, I just can't get the same effect that this guy got with his design. How did he do that? Do you think that he is using illustrator or photoshop? 

 

Thanks guys.  

 

 

[+virtorio MVC]

I put together this quick sample in Photoshop. I have a background image, where I applied a smart Gaussian Blur filter and used the smart filter mask to remove the filter for the rectangle in the middle. I then added the shadow by making a new layer, filling it with a color, setting the layer fill to 0 and adding the drop shadow effect.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifp58zr1vhr5x66/Sample.psd

 

There are lots of ways to do this, this is just how I would do it.

 

Hope that helps.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Can be done in any program, if you look closely you see that it's a blurry bg and a sharp bg behind the glass(2 layers of the same background image with of of them blurred and the other clipped to the image.

 

Then the glass is actual just a layer of white with transparency with maybe a layer effect like overlay to make it look a a bit more blue instead of white glass. Then the whiter glass is just another white transparent layer on top of that again. And the even more whiter is the same story again.

[Tech Star]

Wow thanks guys for explaining it to me! I really appreciate it and following your steps I was able to achieve something close to it, but not exactly. Do you guys know of any good tutorials that show how to make glass transparency or blurs on an image like the one above? 

[Dotdot]

Wow thanks guys for explaining it to me! I really appreciate it and following your steps I was able to achieve something close to it, but not exactly. Do you guys know of any good tutorials that show how to make glass transparency or blurs on an image like the one above? 

As others have said, you can pretty much just wing and do it a few ways. Its actually imho best way as it forces you to experiment a bit and learn more as you go.

Off top of my head id say its basically 3 layers for the body of the player. Each at a different opacity, giving it that nice see thru effect.

[Co-ords]

Which app is that? It looks really nice...

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Which app is that? It looks really nice...

I suppose it's just one of those mockups on dribbble so not an existing app I guess.

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I'm very confident this effect is achievable in GIMP also.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

I'm very confident this effect is achievable in GIMP also.

Indeed I did designs like this in gimp before and still work in gimp, I don't like the way PS works :P

[Sandor]

Basically a white layer with the opacity set to low %. Do it in the "blending options" when you right click on a layer in Photoshop.

 

Looks like subtle blurring and possibly "outer glow" on the edges too.

 

Definitely a blur of some description on the "bottom" bit where it looks more frosted.

 

Pretty simple effects actually but simple is usually best.

[Tech Star]

Thanks guys for the comments. I am really trying hard to get better at PS and Illustrator so I will keep doing what I am doing, or at least try to. :P 

 

Which app is that? It looks really nice...

 

It is a concept app. I just sometimes go through dribbble and look at some of the stuff that I see people making, that I like, and try to recreate them for myself just for fun.

 

I can't seem to find the link to the project. :/

 

Basically a white layer with the opacity set to low %. Do it in the "blending options" when you right click on a layer in Photoshop.

 

Looks like subtle blurring and possibly "outer glow" on the edges too.

 

Definitely a blur of some description on the "bottom" bit where it looks more frosted.

 

Pretty simple effects actually but simple is usually best.

 

Thanks for the explanation! I understand now. :)