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(Left) Before adding the light bottom ledge; (right) after adding the
ledge by duplicating the first one (by holding
Option/Alt while moving it with the Perspec-
tive Selection tool)
3 Creating the LCD screen. Activating the floor plane, McGarry used the Rectangle tool
to create a rectangle in perspective and filled it with a Sky gradient (from Swatch Li-
braries). Outside of the perspective grid, he next created the screen text and icon, ro-
tated them, and then attached them to the perspective plane with the Perspective Se-
lection tool. To create the illusion that the LCD screen was backlit, he layered an off-
set transparent copy of the LCD above the text. To do this he selected the LCD object,
then used perpendicular movement by clicking on the Floor Plane control point to
open the Floor Plane dialog. Entering a 2-pt value in the Location field, he selected
Copy Selected Objects and clicked OK. With this duplicate now selected, he created a
new layer and moved the duplicate to this layer by dragging the selection square (in
the Layers panel). Using the bounding box, McGarry then brought the two foremost
edges of the top LCD screen out to match the edges of the bottom one. Finally, he re-
duced the opacity of the top LCD in the Control panel, giving depth to the glass while
also fading the text and icon.
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