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Monday, January 18, 2010

Creating a Glossy Button in few steps – Photoshop tutorial

Creating a Glossy Button in few steps – Photoshop tutorial
 
Create a document of width and height 400px X 179px, background – white.
Create a rounded rectangle shape with the radius of 8px.
Rasterize the shape layer and apply the blending options as given below

1. Drop shadow
Angle = 120; Distance = 3px; Spread = 0%; Size = 5px.




2. Gradient overlay
Blend mode = Normal; Opacity = 100%; Gradient =#96b822 - #cee76b; Angle = 90
 






3. Stroke
Size = 2px; Position = outside; color = #50ba48.
 





4. Glossy Shade

Create a shape - assuming the highlighted glossy area and apply gradient as given below
 



Glossy highlight area - Shape selection



Apply gradient to the selected highlight area

Once you have performed all of the above steps your button should look like this
 



 

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