Creating a Stylish Button

/\_ by froz _/\

Hello, I am frozzzen and you are reading my first tutorial for Photoshop users. I will start from basic techniques and try to explain all easy, so you don’t have to be a professional ps user to get the result. Here we go! p.s. Dont forget to create new layers every time u making new step!! it is very important, because some things wouldn’t work, if u make them in one layer.

Creating the stylish button tutorial

A tutorial by froz

Creating the stylish button tutorial. Introduction: Hello, I am frozzzen and you are reading my first tutorial for Photoshop users. I will start from basic techniques and try to explain all easy, so you dont have to be a professional ps user to get the result. Here we go! p.s. Dont forget to create new layers every time u making new step!! it is very important, because some things wouldn’t work, if u make them in one layer.

1. Create new document (Ctrl+N) with this settings:

2. Press “M” to select the elliptical marquee tool. Change style to Fixed Size (W:52,H:52) and click on the canvas to make selection. Create new layer (it will be layer1) and fill the selection with black color. So now u have picture similar to that:

3. Select layer1, ctrl+alt+right arrow key and move the circle pressing shift and right arrow key and holding ctrl. Press it 20 times or so. It will be the width of our button.

4. Now zoom in pressing cltr+”+” and press “M” to select the Rectangular marquee tool. Find the center of circle and make selection through center to all height of both circles. Fill it with black color. Now u should have a nice rounded rectangle.

5. Now u have 2 layers and layer of background. Merge 2 layers with circles and rectangle (Ctrl+E). Right click on layer with rounded rectangle and put these settings:

(Color overlay: #818181)

6. It’s time to make it more metallic! Select layer1 (one with rounded rectangle), ctrl+left click on layer to make selection. Press “G” to select the gradient tool. Press “D” to reset colors, then press “X” to make the white to be foreground color. Click where arrow shows you and select the gradient “Foreground to transparent”. Deselect pressing ctrl+D.

Make gradient from the top of shape and nearly to the end of it.

You will have something like that:

7. Make selection similar to mine and againg press “X” to make the black foreground color. Put gradient from black to transparent how picture down shows you.

Then deselect and go filters—> Blur—> Gaussian Blur—> Radius 5 to 7. Ctrl+click on the layer1 then Ctrl+shift+I to invert selection and press DEL to delete the unnecessary part of this layer. U should have something like that now:

8. Now repeat the 6th but put the gradient from down to top and make it smaller, like on this picture:

Select the layer1 then go Select – > Modify -> Contrast -> 2. Create new layer and fill the selection with solid black color. Put this layer under all other except layer1. Now we have this one:

That is all for main body. Now we gonna to make inset of glass button in it.

9. First we gonna to repeat the same that we do in the step#1 but with smaller circles. Make width of the new rounded rectangle much smaller than the main body.

10. Put these settings of layer style there:

(Color overlay: #FF8604)11. Now select layer with orange rounded rectangle, go Select -> Modify -> Expand—> 1. Fill it with any color and open the layer style menu. Check the Gradient Overlay button. Don’t change anything inside, only check the “REVERSE” button. Change the opacity of layer to 70%-80% and put it above the orange button layer. Now it looks like this one:

Duplicate the layer with the gradient and go Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur -> Radius: 1.

12. This is the last step, we gonna to add some glass (or aqua) effects to our button. Ctrl+click on our orange layer (one with orange inset). Go Select -> Modify -> Contrast -> 2. Make the gradient from top to bottom from white to transparent (you should how to do it now), as here:

Again make selection of orange inset and go Select -> Modify -> Contrast -> 2. Now make the same white to transparent gradient from down to top, but smaller then the first time, as here:

Change the style of this layer to OVERLAY. The result. So what we have now? We made a stylish metallic button with the orange inset in it, where you can write anything you want. Here it is:

Not bad thought, but try to experiment with this techniques, put on your imagination and go go go create!!! Look on the top and see my final result. Don’t stop! p.s.: I hope u like this tutorial and find it not very hard and understandable for you. Don’t know will i continue writing tutorials or not, but I must say that I had nice experience writing this for you! Hope you enjoy the result ;) Good luck my friends!Dont forget to visit my sites