Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

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Create a new document. Make the document 120*50. Fill the document background color #838383. Get out your ‘Rounded Tool’ Use the following settings:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Drag in a shape to fit into the canvas. For this tutorial, I will leave space at the bottom to create another effect later.Set the background color to #111111.

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

2: Right click on your shape layer and go to ‘Blending options’. Input these  settings:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Your result

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

3: Create a new layer (shift+control N). Get out your ‘pencil Tool’ with a brush size of 2px. Set the foreground color to (#eee1cd). Make a horizontal line across the your rounded rectangular shape like this:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Right click on the pencil layer and go to ‘Blending Options’ input these settings:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Your result

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

4: Make sure you are still on the pencil layer. Go to layer > Layer Mask> Reveal All. Get out your ‘Gradient Tool’ With these settings:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Create the gradient shapes as followed:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Your Result

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

5: Get out your ‘pen tool’ (use the same settings as before with the rectangular tool) and create a shape like this:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Go to filter> Blur >Guassian  blur. It will ask you if you want to rasterize the layer. Click ok and input the blur setting 0.6

6: Go back to your original shape and highlight the shape.

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Hold Ctrl on the vector mask to select the layer

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Invert the selection.(Select > Inverse) Return to the previous layer (the one with the pen shape) and delete the selection.Deselect.(control+D)

Your result:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

7: Duplicate the layer and shift it over to the other side of the button so it is symmetrical.

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

8: Go back to your original shape and highlight the shape. Create a new layer (shift+control N) instead and go to Edit> Stroke. Input these settings and click ok.

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Deselect (control D) the highlight. you are now going to use the same technique from step 4 on this layer. Go to Layer> Layer Mask> Reveal All. Get out your ‘Gradient Tool’ and with the same settings before. Create this gradient.

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Your result (after an opacity drop to 75%):

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Note: This layer is above the dark side shadows. if it is not, You might not see the effect!

9: Now it is time to make your text layer. Type out what you want it to say. I used ‘Franklin Gothic Medium’ for the italicised ‘name and gave it a (#e7e7e7) text color. Site is white.

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Right click the layer and go to ‘Blending Options’. Input these settings:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

Your result:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

the final result:

Sitename Button Video Tutorial in Photoshop

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rameexgfx made a comment on 17 Nov 2009

its amazing and easy tutorial I tweet this!

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admin made a comment on 17 Nov 2009

Thanks Man, i hope you will like other tutorials also

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arnotufu made a comment on 3 Dec 2009

Thanks a lot!

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