Gem’s TV handset

Gem's TV handset
This TV remote control was created almost entirely in Photoshop for Gems TV. I had a scan of a remote control but I re-did most of the buttons using the Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Bevel and Emboss layer styles. I used the Inner Shadow layer style on the cross surrounding the directional buttons. The black plastic background of the handset is a couple of linear blends with noise added for texture.


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3 Responses to “Gem’s TV handset”

  1. Watch TV, on May 21st, 2009 at 7:06 pm, said:

    Interesting remote. Kind of hard to use without and text on the keys

  2. Henry Gilbert, on May 28th, 2009 at 6:43 am, said:

    Hmmm I am not sure. Something is not quite right, seems unfinished somehow. I am wondering how you could add more realism to it, as the gems still look like pasted cut-outs. The look flat.

    The way I would go about it. Would be to experiment with 3D modelling applications. Study and observe how light scatters (even if ever so subtly) through gemstones.

    All gems have a black ring around it – I would experiment with making that ring a gradient of some sort – to create an illusion of depth. You know like as grey-black gradient goes for an object , the reverse (black-grey) goes for the stroke.

    Still interesting, if not curious, design project.

  3. Rob Cubbon, on June 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm, said:

    I did the black rings around the gems in order to make it look like they were like buttons. If I was to do it again I would make the gems brighter.

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