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Need help in Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended

Aug 10, 2012 12:54 PM

Tags: #update #windows #wikipedia

How can I make a dialog window with transparent background which looks like exactly like this:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Windows_Update.png

 

With transparent background, so the Aero glass color is white.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_Update.png

 

If you hover your mouse over the picture, you may see checkered patterns, which is transparent, so the Aero glass can see through the checkered patterns. (Note: Please do this in the link above.)

 

How can I do this like the Aero glass see through the checkered patterns above?

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  • JJMack
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    1. JJMack,
    Aug 10, 2012 8:57 PM   in reply to Virussia
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    What is there is a image file format png not a dialog window.  What application will use the dialog what tools do you have? Adobe Flash which I don't have or use may be able to do that type dialog. In Photoshop scripting folder sub folder \Sample Scripts\ javascript there is a script that uses Adobe Flash for its UI files:

    FlashUISample.jsxl

    FlashUISample.mxml

    FlashUISample.swfs

     

    Also the frames on normal Photoshop scripts dialogs written in javascript seem to be semi transparent

    ipdialog.jpg

     
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    Aug 12, 2012 9:04 AM   in reply to JJMack
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    Sorry, I don't have such files.

     
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    Aug 12, 2012 10:28 AM   in reply to Virussia
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    You want to know how to draw a dialog box that has aero effects or know how to make script windows (dialogs) look like that?

     
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    Aug 12, 2012 10:39 AM   in reply to R_Kelly
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    Yes!

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    Aug 12, 2012 10:59 AM   in reply to Virussia
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    You will want to use one or more Layers, partial layer transparency (e.g., by using a grayscale Layer Mask), and save in a format that can carry transparency such as PNG.

     

    Note that you will never be able to achieve the blurring that Aero Glass does to things that show through, so the effect will never match Windows very well.  With Windows 8 there will be no more transparency of individual windows, by the way - just partial transparency of the Taskbar.

     

    You can determine the extent of the transparency and the color used, in order to learn to match it, by loading the very PNG you put up in your post above into Photoshop (CS5 or newer), then do Layer - Layer Mask - From Transparency.

     

    -Noel

     
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    Aug 12, 2012 11:06 AM   in reply to Virussia
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    Something like this: (you might have to experiment with using different colors)

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZMFvxpnNg

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10_SfXO5Kzc

     
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    Aug 12, 2012 11:14 AM   in reply to R_Kelly
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZMFvxpnNg

     

    This video was before the PS CS6.

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    Aug 12, 2012 11:56 AM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    You could make a background gradient very similar to theirs, based on what you can see up at the top of the window, and replace the entire content of the window with that.  Then you could put whatever client area you want on top of that.

     

    WindowsDialogBackground.png

    WindowsDialog.png

     

    -Noel

     
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    9. Virussia,
    Aug 12, 2012 12:05 PM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    No, I want to paste a window into a transparent background, what can I do?

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    Aug 12, 2012 12:09 PM   in reply to Virussia
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    What is your intent?  To create a Photoshop design that uses partially transparent layers?  To display partially transparent things in a web browser?  If so, I have already told you exactly what you want to do.

     

    You're going to need to go research how layers and transparency work in Photoshop I think.  That's a bit beyond a Q & A forum to teach.

     

    -Noel

     
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    11. Virussia,
    Aug 12, 2012 12:11 PM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    Yes! I want to paste a dialog window into the transparent background, but I want completely transparent.

     
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    Aug 12, 2012 12:29 PM   in reply to Virussia
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    Layer - New Layer, Color: X None.  That creates a new completely transparent layer on which you can paint things.

     

    Select something with pixels in it, Edit - Copy, then Edit - Paste over whatever layers are there.  That will create a new layer with transparency all around the pixels you copied and pasted.

     

    To make a layer mask with which to make parts of a layer transparent, Layer - Layer Mask - Reveal All, then paint black on the Layer Mask.  Gray makes it partially transparent.

     

    -Noel

     
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