Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

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Step 1:
Start a new document of size 220×260. Fill it with a background colour as Black #000000.

Step 2:
Create a new layer and select the Rounded rectangle shape and draw a rectangle, like this
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Select the layer and choose gradient overlay.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

and select the following Gradient Colours.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

This is what I got my result as
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Step 3:
Now let us try to give some effect and text to the button to make it look more attractive. Select the Eleptical Marquee tool and draw a ellipse like this.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Create a new layer and fill it with white colour and reduce the opacity of the layer to 27% you should see something like this.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Now draw another ellipse using Eleptical Marquee tool like this and move the selection to the left this will cut the top white layer.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Now press the delete button and you are left with only the part in the right. Now ctrl+click on the button layer and press ctrl+shift+i to make the reverse selection and press the delete button. This is what you should get after doing it.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Now you can see our button is taking some shape. let us add some text and shine to make it look more sleek. You can choose a pixel font to make it look more futuristic. This is what I have got.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Now let us add some shine. Create a new layer above the text layer that we just created and draw a eleptical selection and use the single transparent gradient and deleted the extra part by inverse selection.
Glossy Button Effects Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Now just duplicate the layer set and change the text to add more similar buttons. You can also experiment with different colour to give it different looks.

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