The 2D Glock logo is a simple design (download a Glock brochure for an accurate reference) which you could recreate with vector paths then extrude to a 3D solid for rendering. You can do the path work in Photoshop, but it would be much easier in a drafting app. I don't want to specify non-Adobe products in this forum, though.

The Glock logo will be copyrighted, of course.

myk0723 wrote:

 

What, then exactly, is email for?

What don't you understand?

I never suggested that email is for, or not for, any particular use.

I did advise you not to post a literal email address which will be harvested for spamming. I suggested a way to obfuscate an address from bots. An admin simultaneously changed your address from its literal form to an obfuscated form to protect your account for you.

myk0723 wrote:

 

Noel, you were correct in that the 3-D glock logo is not nearly as simple as it looks. I emailed the Instructor and was informed that a CS5 class environment, without on-line tutorials, will probably not work for the type of logos I want. To "duplicate it exactly in CS5 would be extremely difficult, if not impossible". Kind of like driving in a railroad spike with a ball-peen hammer. So as not to rattle anyone on the forum in particular, he did recomment I could start it in Photoshop but need to finish it in another software package, which, by the way, is not a competitor of Adobe. Evidently, the translucence of the glass, colors within it, and beveling angles are not really PhotoShops forte. It is called PHOTOshop for a reason. Thanks much for your suggestions and helping me.

You've failed to understand both Noel and me.

Noel did not say the logo is not simple. That's not surprising since the logo is obviously simple.

Noel's advice was that you learn CS6 instead of CS5.

CS6 Extended does translucent (and refractive) glass. It's a piece of cake to add bevels to an extrusion in CS6 Extended.

My very first response to you was that CS6 Extended would do the job.

Good luck with CS5.

conroy2009 wrote:

 

Noel did not say the logo is not simple. That's not surprising since the logo is obviously simple.

 

Noel's advice was that you learn CS6 instead of CS5.

 

Exactly right.  Thank you for commenting, Conroy.  I thought that actually showing that I could make a similar-looking logo out of Mikey's own username would make that obvious.  With a bit more tweaking it could be made even better looking than the Glock effort.  There are a number of extrusion features I didn't exercise.

Now, that's not to say operating Photoshop's 3D facilities is trivial - I have a lot of experience with Photohop, though I've never used its 3D capabilities before version CS6.  But it's doable, and I'll wager to say anyone with some time on their hands, a computer with a capable GPU, and a willingness to experiment could do better than I did.

-Noel

Thanks.  I was going for more of a "smoked glass" appearance, and that seems to need the opacity to be down a good bit.

I was thinking it seemed logical that choosing a dark color would help with that, but it doesn't seem to.  However, it's possible to find an opacity value in the 25% to 35% range that gives a bit better saturation.  Bottom line seems to be that the rendering seems to need post-rendering help to be truly like smoked glass.

-Noel

Actually, I think it's the transparency more than anything else.  There doesn't seem to be a direct way to have something be very transparent, but dark - as smoked glass would be.  If I increase the opacity it gets plenty dark and with plenty of color saturation - just as steve showed above - but then it doesn't look as much like clear glass.  I even tried turning down the intensity of the lights to no avail.

Or am I missing the crux of your question?

I'm glad Mike created this thread; it's prompted me to fool around more with the 3D capabilities.  I can see that this is going to be helpful for a lot of things, inasmuch as I loved Layer Styles before (can you tell from my Avatar?). 

-Noel

In the Environment section, I've tried an Image Base Light color from black to dark red to white, and yes, with white it's even more washed out.  But at 10% to 30% opacity it's washed out with even a black IBL.

-Noel

Here's a block of red glass with a tunnel cut through from left to right. There is a single white panel illuminant beyond it to the left in a black environment.

It would look more realistic if the light was progressively absorbed as it travelled inside the material - Beer's law.

Tell me this doesn't kick the butt of that Glock logo you posted at the top of this thread...

-Noel

No problem, but to be fair it's not mine either - it's Ruger's.

I have a little Ruger Mark I Target Model .22 that's the most accurate weapon I've ever shot.  I've won pistol matches with it.  It groups in about 1 inch square at 75 feet, no kidding.  They make decent hardware.

-Noel