Reflective shine

[iPhoneDevlpmnt]

Hi,

I read in the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines document that iPhone OS adds a reflective shine to the image provided by us as the application icon.

I want to know the method to add this shine to any picture in iPhone... In particular I want to add a background image in my app which has a metallic feel (looks translucent and has that shine.... like the aqua images in Mac OS).

Kindly let me know if there are any softwares also which help in generating pics like these.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[smasher]

Photoshop.

photoshop aqua buttons - Google Search

If you need to do this at runtime, you could create a single "overlay" with the shine and shadow on it, but the button area transparent. Then you can place your overlay over the image.

[iPhoneDevlpmnt]

Cool. Thanks. I will try it out.