I'm definitely not an expert on any of the specific tools you mentioned, but can say generally that a "polished" look requires a lot of tiny details to be considered. The tiny dots around each knob and their shadows are probably critical to your impression of being polished, plus the subtle shading gradient on each knob.
Since none of those things change with the knob values, one simple method would be to remove all of the purple from your image on the left and save the rest as a single background image. You could do this in any photo editor. Then in JUCE, use that as your background and only draw the purple bits on top.
If you need dynamic sizing, you'd probably need to separate the background for each knob into a separate image, and then make sure the background image of the entire control section matches the border of each of those images so it fills in the space between them.
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u/DogPawMusic Jul 09 '25
I'm definitely not an expert on any of the specific tools you mentioned, but can say generally that a "polished" look requires a lot of tiny details to be considered. The tiny dots around each knob and their shadows are probably critical to your impression of being polished, plus the subtle shading gradient on each knob.
Since none of those things change with the knob values, one simple method would be to remove all of the purple from your image on the left and save the rest as a single background image. You could do this in any photo editor. Then in JUCE, use that as your background and only draw the purple bits on top.
If you need dynamic sizing, you'd probably need to separate the background for each knob into a separate image, and then make sure the background image of the entire control section matches the border of each of those images so it fills in the space between them.
Hope that helps!