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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Working with Photoshop



01 Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button
Create a blank canvas at about 500px (width) x 400px (height) to start off the button design. Create a new layer call ‘bg01‘. Select the Rounded Rectangular Tool, hold SHIFT and draw a round sided square in the center. Any color is fine at the current stage.
02 Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button
Call up the Blending Options of ‘bg01‘ and adjust the following styles:
Drop Shadow
  • Opacity: 40%
  • Distance: 0px
  • Spread: 0%
  • Size: 6px
Gradiant Overlay
  • Color stop: 0%, #d00031
  • Color stop: 100%, #ff2b5d
03 Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button
Hold CTRL, left click on ‘bg01‘ Layer Thumbnail to select its shape. Go Select -> Modify -> Contract and enter the value ‘2px‘. This will shrink the selected area by 2 pixel.
04 Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button
Create a new layer call ‘bg02‘ and filled the highlighted (after shrink) area with any color. I use #000000 black here. Double click on ‘bg02′ to launch up the Blending Option and tweak the following style.
Gradiant Overlay
  • Color stop: 0%, #c6002f
  • Color stop: 100%, #c6002f
Create another new layer for text, call it ‘txt‘. Insert your button’s text. I’ll use an alphabet to represent. The font styles I’m using here are as follow:
  • Rounded Arial Bold
  • 150pt
Same, after deciding your text, double click on ‘txt’ to launch the Blending Options and tweak the following styles.
Drop Shadow
  • Opacity: 25%
  • Distance: 0px
  • Spread: 0px
  • Size: 5px
Inner Shadow
  • Opacity: 10%
  • Distance: 0px
  • Choke: 0
  • Size: 10px
Bevel Emboss
  • Depth: 1px
  • Direction: Down
  • Size: 0px
  • Softten: 0px
  • Highlight Mode Opacity: 32%
  • Shadow Mode Opacity: 32%
Gradiant Overlay
  • Color Stop:0% #d2d2d2
  • Color Stop:100% #f0efef
05 Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button
Button is almost done. Let’s give it a little glow over the top part. Hold CTRL, left click ‘bg02‘ Layer Thumbnail to highlight the outer shape; choose Eclipse Marquee Tool. Now hold ALT, with Eclipse Marquee Tool selected, drag is across to minus out bottom half of the highlighted area. Refer to image above.
06 Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button
With the top portion highlighted and Eclipse Marquee Tool still selected, right click and choose Feather; enter 15px for the radius.
Create a new layer, call it ‘glow‘ and fill the highlighted part with white [#ffffff]. This should add glow effect to the top part of your button. Final product should look something like the image below.
final Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button

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