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Simple attractive Button
Simple Attractive Button 40x40This tutorial will show you how to create a nice button for your application with just a few effects

Step 1: Create a new 800x800 pixels document (in fact, size is not a matter)

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 Step 2: Right click on your shape tool and choose Rounded Rectangle Tool

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 set the radius (on the top toolbar) about 5 pixels Simple Attractive Button 2b

Step 3: Change your foreground and background to light green and dark green with these values

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 Step 4: Now draw a small rectangle on your document. On the Layers tab, double click on your new created layer to open the Layer Style dialog box. Use these effects:

    + Drop shadow:

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    + Gradient Overlay:

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(choose Foreground to Background option) 

    + Stroke:

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After using these effects, our rectangle will look like this:

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We will draw something on our rectangle.

Step 5: Right click on the shape tool again, but this time we choose Custom Shape Tool

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Step 6: On the top toolbar, you will see a small arrow on the right side of the "Shape" word, click on it. If you just see a few shapes then click on the small arrow on the top right of the box, choose All to load all shapes

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 Select a shape you like and draw it on your rectangle

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My note is pink just because it is the selected layer. In fact, your shape will be green because it uses your foreground color by default.

 Step 7: To change your shape's color, double click on its layer to open the Layer Style dialog box, use Stroke effect with yellow like this:

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 Use the Horizontal Type Tool(T) to write something you want. Here is the result:

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You can stop here! But if you want to make your button more attractive, I will show you an interesting technique.

 Step 8: In the Layers tab, choose the top layer (by default, maybe it is Shape 2 layer or your text layer, if you used one) and click on "Create a new layer" icon

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Step 9: Right click on the Marquee Tool(M) and choose Elliptical Marquee Tool

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 draw a small ellipse on the top of your rectangle

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Step 10: Press Shift-F5 to open the Fill dialog box, select White in the drop-down list. Click OK

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 Step 11: Double click on your current layer. In the General Blending, reduce Opacity to 25. Deselect all other effects if they are in use.

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 Now press Ctrl-D to deselect the ellipse, here is the final result

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Note: if you don't use a white background, you will see an unwanted white area outside your rectangle. To fix this problem, you have to make a precise selection (which is intersected by your rectangular selection and your elliptical selection).

 



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Comments
Manpreet 01-30-2008
Really great tutorial....hats off... descriptive yet so straight to the point... thanks
jayant 02-01-2008
simple & good
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