Those Sweet tubes...

[SIZE=1][FONT=arial][COLOR=royalblue]Hi im new on the board. I worked with photoshop for about a year all together and i guess im better then average. I just have really bad drawers lock, (cant ever think creatively) . anyways, when browsing the net i came across www.phong.com and saw these really nice plastic tubes on his main art (done in Flash5) So making several attempts at creating the tubes from scratch i just couldnt get that smooth look he had going. So i looked around for some tutorials. The thing about his tubes is he has the tube transparent and on a seperate layer. HOW THE HELL DO I DO THIS? someone hit me back please.

:mad: well being as careless as i can sometimes be, the site is either down, or gone...i imagine someone here has seen the site? anyone?:confused:
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Phong's interface is rendered in 3D max
exported into PS and saved in PNG format..

then imported into Flash and animations, etc done there...

there's a tutorial on his site on flash transparency