Re: How do I make a ****ny gold surface?

On Sun, 18 May 2008 02:42:10 -0700, GreatArtist wrote
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> I made a vector shape in Adobe Illustrator and I want to fill it with
> a ****ny gold surface. I want that to look like just  a featureless,
> ****ny gold metal surface or to have a satin gold finish. I don't want
> a rough texture. I also want the same thing in silver metal. I tried
> looking in google images and a few texture collections for such a
> tiled texture image of these things but I couldn't find one. 


Instead of looking for textures, look at images and see how real life
makes 
something look gold.  Learn to look at things and then YOU can make your 
images seem life-like.  All you are doing now is looking to find how
someone 
else has done it.  That is cheating.

Mike

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