Effects Challenge...

[Gailyn Bassler]

A friend asked me to do a site for his company. They offer water
products. I was thinking of creating a surface across the top that was
a blue color, then have bubbles of water sitting on that surface (like
beeds of water on a counter, but from an angle). The largest of these
bubbles would be used as navigational buttons.

When I get to creating the proper 3-D effect to make it look right, I
run into the problem that when I add the smooth inner bevel effect I
also want to set the shade slider (the one that ranges from 0 - 100%).
This slider offers an effect from white to black. What I would like to
do is change the black color to be the same color as the blue surface.
This would make completing the desired effect very easy. Is it possible
to change this color?

I am using FW2 on a PC.

Thanks,
Jeff Bassler

[Lanny Chambers]

In article <386AE69D...@earthlink.net>, Gailyn Bassler
<gailyn...@earthlink.net> wrote:

You might try filling your drops with a radial gradient and reducing the
inner bevel to a low value, maybe 15-20%. You'd have much more control
over the color that way.

Or, if you have Eye Candy, try the Water Drops filter.

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[Ron Willoughby]

Eye Candy has a wonderful water drop effect that works and looks very good.
Try it out.

"Gailyn Bassler" <gailyn...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> A friend asked me to do a site for his company. They offer water
> products. I was thinking of creating a surface across the top that was
> a blue color, then have bubbles of water sitting on that surface (like
> beeds of water on a counter, but from an angle). The largest of these
> bubbles would be used as navigational buttons.
>
> When I get to creating the proper 3-D effect to make it look right, I
> run into the problem that when I add the smooth inner bevel effect I
> also want to set the shade slider (the one that ranges from 0 - 100%).
> This slider offers an effect from white to black. What I would like to
> do is change the black color to be the same color as the blue surface.
> This would make completing the desired effect very easy. Is it possible
> to change this color?
>