Photoshop Tutorial: Create glossy button for web 2.0
Photoshop Tutorial: Create glossy button for web 2.0
Published December 27th, 2006 in Photoshop Tutorial.
This tutorial will show you how to create some of the more popular Web 2.0 style button using Photoshop CS. Full tutorial after jump.
1. Creating the base
Fire up a new canvas and adjust the following settings (marked in yellow) according to the image below. The rest should come as default. You might want to double check with the defaults too.
Create a new layer call ‘Button’
On layer ‘Button’, select the Rounded rectangle tool
give it a radius of 7px
and draw a rectangle similar to the image below.
2. Red button
Right click on the Blending Options for ‘Button’ layer
and tweak the following settings for
Drop Shadow
Inner Shadow
Bevel and Emboss, and
Gradiant Overlay
Your button should look something like this
3. Glossy and a little tweak
Create a new layer call ‘Glass’
Select Retangular marquee tool, make sure you are selecting ‘Button’ layer. HOLD your
Select ‘Glass’ button now, hold the
Fill the selected area with white color #ffffff using Paint Bucket Tool
Adjust the opacity to 18%
and you should have glossy button looking like this.
4. Pattern Overlay
Lets give the button some slight pattern overlay. I’ll be using the custom stripe5px created earlier. Click here to read “How to create custom pattern”
Create a new layer call ‘Pattern’ in between ‘Button’ and ‘Glass’ and proceed with Blending Options.
Select Pattern Overlay, choose Stripe5px (or any pattern you’ve created) and click OK then close the dialogue.
Make sure you are still on Rectangular Marquee tool, hold
5. Inserting Text
I’ll throw in some random text in white #ffffff color with the following settings
and the following blending effects on my text’s layer.
Drop Shadow
Output
You should get an image like this.