Tutorial – Glassy web 2.0 Button in Photoshop

1) Create a new document, File -> New

2) Select “Rounded Rectangle tool” from tool palette.

and draw a rectangle button share using mouse.

3) click and hold “ctrl” key on keyboard and click on layer. Thus button shape will be selected. Now create a new layer, Layer -> New

4) Now choose any dark color of your choice as foreground color, and similar light color in tool palette.

color selection is completely your choice.

5) Select “Gradient” tool from tool palette.

6) Select first option in “gradient picker”

7) Hold and drag mouse from top to bottom of button shape. We will have a image like this.

9) As we can see,  button shape is already selected. Create a new layer (Layer -> New)

Now Contract the selection of this shape by 3 pixel.

Select -> Modify -> Contract

10) Now, once again we will use gradient from top to bottom. But we will lighten both forground and background color than previous selection. Now our button looks like this.

11) Create a new layer (Layer -> New) and select “Elliptical marquee tool”

12) click and hold “Alt” button on keyboard -> and drag mouse from middle of button shape.

14) change color of foreground and background.

foreground -> white

Background -> Black

15) Select “Gradient tool” and select second option in gradient picker.

16) Hold and drag mouse from top to bottom over selected area.

Change opacity to 70

Now deselect (Select -> Deselect)

Now our button looks like this:

17) Now, lets add some text on the button. First add a new layer (New -> Layer). Now click on text button -> than click on button and type some text.  You can select font and color of your choise.

After typing text, select layer type as “soft light”.

18) Right click on text layer and select “Blending options” -> Drop shadow.

• opacity -> 75%
• Size: 2
• Distance : 3
• Angle: 90

19) similarly drop shadow for complete button.

• opacity: 50%
• Angle: 90

20) So, our final image is like

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