Video Tutorial

Part 1

Video Tutorial

Today i am going to make a Beautiful Glossy Badge In Photoshp.
With Few simple steps you can easily make Glossy Badge.
lets try to make with me.

Video Tutorial

Start by creating a document of any size that you want, as later on we are going to crop it to the desire size. Here for this tutorial, I’ll be using 200×200 px. Fill the background with white color. Create a new layer, name this layer as – orb-bg, with the Eclipse Tool, draw a perfect circle of size similar as shown as the above picture. Give the circle a gradient color of #2a2a2a on top and #3e3e3e at the bottom.

Secondly, create another new layer. Name this layer orb-glass. Using the Eclipse Tool again, draw an oval shape as how it is shown on the above image, with white(#fffff) color fill of course.

Then use the round marquee tool, draw a marquee selection 1/3 below the orb-glass which was created on step-2, as shown in the image. Open up the feather option by going to Select > Feather or with the shortcut key Ctri + Alt + D. Give it a 30px feather. With the orb-glass layer select, press delete twice.

After the deletion, you will come close to what’s shown in the above image. Change the opacity of the orb-glass if you wanted to.

Make another new layer in between orb-glass and orb-bg. Name this layer orb-bottom. Using again the Eclipse Tool, draw a small oval shape at the bottom of the orb with black(#000000) fill. As how is shown on the above image.

With the orb-bottom layer, selected, bring out the Gaussian Blur window by going to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Give a 2.8px of blur.

If everything is on the right path, you will have something like is shown on the image. However, it is still not done yet as we are goin to make the mouse over effect glow.

Create another new layer in between orb-bottom and orb-bg. Name this layer over-glow. With the Eclipse Tool, draw another oval shape like what is shown in the image. Of course with the fill color of #00c1de

With the over-glow layer selected, bring out the Gaussian Blur window again, Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, this time give a 9.0 px blur to it. Then you will have the glow effect as what is shown on the above image.

Video Tutorial

First of all we have to create the bulb.For this select the custom shape tool.

And then select the light bulb.

Be careful that the background is black the the light bulb is white so that you have the same contrast like in the picture below.

Now right click the layer and select Blending options.Or simply go to Layer>Layer style>Blending options.

Select Outer glow and set these values.

Then the Inner glow.

Now the Bevel and emboss.

At the Satin set these values.

And this colour to the Color overlay.You don’t have to use the exact colour

And now the Gradient overlay.

And Stroke.

You should obtain this by now.

Part 1

Step 1: Creating the background.

Create a new document, 600px X 600px. Start off with a medium gray for the background; I used #8e8e8e. Next, we need to add the light gradient to make the background look more like a 3d space. We’ll obtain that effect by using the gradient tool with the color white. Create a new layer and select the gradient tool. By default the gradient type should be “Linear Gradient”; change it to “Reflected Gradient” gradient_type This should also come by default, but just to be safe, also make sure the gradient goes from white to alpha 0 gradient_white Next, simply move your cursor (with the gradient tool selected) in the dead center of your image and holding the shift key drag the mouse vertically downwards until you reach the bottom of the image and release. Next play a little bit with the layer’s alpha in order to get something similar to the following. You can also play with it with the transform tool (Ctrl+T) to change its shape a little bit.

Step 2: Creating the Circle

Create a new layer on top of the previous two and call it “Circle Background”. On this layer, in the center of the image create a circle with a color of your choice (I used #9f0000). In order to create the circle use the Eliptical Marquee Tool to make your selection and then the Paint Bucket Tool to fill in your selection with a color of your choice.

Step 3: Adding the shades

Create a new layer on top of the “Circle Background” and call it “Circle Shades”. Select the new layer (Circle Shades) and while holding the Ctrl key down, click on the layer “Circle Background” (on the square showing the layer’s content). Select the Gradient Tool and select the gradient type “Linear Gradient” gradient_type_linear Press “D” to reset your colors to black and white. Now start applying the gradients inside your selection by dragging from outside the circle towards the center. This might take a little bit of effort to get it right, but eventually it should look similar to this:

Step 4: Adding the shadows

Now we have to make this “3d ball” look like its staying on the plane and add its shadows. Create a new layer and call it “Ball Shadow” and move the layer under the layer “Circle Background”. Select the Brush Tool and make sure you’re viewing the “Basic” brushes ( which should be there by default). Select a round feathred brush and change its size to roughly 200 brush_200 Click once with the brush tool at the bottom of the circle (behind it). Next, use the transform tool (Ctrl+T) and change the height and move it until it looks like a shadow. It should look roughly like the image bellow. To make it look even better play with the layer’s alpha if needed. On top of that I duplicated the layer “Ball Shadow” and I made the new shadow even smaller so that the shadow is much darker exactly under the ball.

Step 5: Fixing the shadow at the bottom (optional)

At this point, the only thing left to fix with the shadow would be the bottom portion of circle. I don’t really like how you can see the bottom of the circle so clear and I feel that it should blend a little bit more with the dark shadow under it. We’ll use the same techniques shown in Step 4. Create a new layer on top of the layer “Circle Shades” and call it “Shadow Fix” and using the Brush Tool with a smaller size around “100″ press again once at the bottom of the ball. Next play with the transform tool until the bottom portion of the ball should be a little darker. This step isn’t necesarry but it will help with the realism.

Step 6: Adding the light areas

Create a new layer, call it “Ball Light” and move it above the layer “Ball Shadow”. Change your main color to white and then using the brush tool with a size of 150-200 place a spot towards the top of the circle. Change the layer Blending Mode to “Overlay”. Create a new layer again on top of “Ball Light” and call it “Ball Light 2″ and with the Brush Tool with a size of about 20-30 place a spot on top of the new glow and change the layer’s alpha to about 40 or so. Your image should look similar to the one bellow. At this point you can stop or do whatever you’d like with your image or you can simply continue with the tutorial and see what I came up with.

Step 7: Creating the “screen”

Duplicate the layer “Circle Background” and change the circle’s color to a different one. I changed my color to #218165. Call the new layer “Screen Background” You can do this by selecting the “Circle Background” layer and then draging it over the small icon at the bottom called “Create new layer”. Next right click your new layer and choose “Blending Options” and check the box called “Color Overlay” and also press the text so that you can see the menu options. Simply click on the colored square and choose a color of your prefference and press “ok”.

Press “Ctrl+T” to activate the transform tool and while holding the “Alt” key down, change the height of the circle. It should look similar to the image bellow

Step 8: Screen Border

Duplicate the layer “Screen Background” twice and move both layers under the original “Screen Background”. Change the colors on both layers to black. Next move the first circle 2px up and the second circle 2px down. You can do that using the arrow keys and pressing the “up arrow” twice and the “down arrow” twice. Select the duplicated “Screen Backgrond” layer that’s on top and merge it to the second one, that’s under it by pressing “Ctrl+E”. Change the alpha of the new layer to about 50% and rename the layer to “Screen Border”. The only problem at this point is that the circle is a little bit outside the circle so we need to remove those small portions. Hold “Ctrl” and press on the layer “Circle Background” to obtain the circle’s selection. Next press “Ctrl+I” to invert the selection and press your “Delete” key to remove the corners of the screen border. Everything should look similar to the following image.

Step 9: Embeded Screen

Duplicate the layer “Screen Border” and call it “Screen Embed”. Apply a Gaussian Blur effect of roughly 6 (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur). Hold “Ctrl” and press on the “Screen Border” layer to get its selection, go to Select>Modify>Expand and expand the selection by 1px. Next, press “Delete” to clear the selection. Hold “Ctrl” and press on the “Circle Background” layer to get its selection and then press “Ctrl+I” and “Delete” again to remove all the content outside the circle. The Embed effect should look like this:

Step 10: Adding the Screen Noise

Create a new layer above the layer “Screen Background” and call it “Screen Noise”. Select the new layer and while holding “Ctrl” down click on the layer “Screen Background” to obtain its selection. Go to Filter>Render>Clouds. Next go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Change the Amount to 180, Distribution to “Uniform” and uncheck “Monochromatic”. Press “Ctrl+U” and change the “Saturation” to -100 and press ok. Next change the layer’s alpha to 20%. Your result should be similar to the following:

Step 11: Adding the high glows

Create a new layer on top of the all the layers and call it “High Glow”. Use the Brush Tool with a value of about 150 and color black and click once on the image towards the top of the screen. On the same layer, change the color of the brush to white and the size to 80 and press in the middle of the previous brush. Change the mode of the layer to “Color Dodge” . Press “Ctrl+T” and change the size of the glow so that it looks good. Duplicate the layer and move the new glow towards the bottom of the screen and resize it until it looks good. While holding “Ctrl” click the layer “Background Circle” and then press “Ctrl+I” to invert the circle’s selection. Press “Delete” to delete the content outside the circle on both “High Glow” layers. This is what I came up with:

Step 12: Creating the reflection

Put all of the layers in a folder, all besides the ones that build the shadow of the ball. Duplicate the folder and press “Ctrl+E” to merge all the layers in the folder into one layer. Go to Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical. Move the ball at the bottom of the circle and change the alpha for the layer to 10%. Select using the Rectangular Marquee Tool about 1/3 of the circle, the lower portion, and then go to Select>Modify>Feather and choose 20, press OK and then press “Delete”. Your image should look similar to the following:

Final Result:

Video Tutorial

Firstly we need to create a new file (File>New) of 512×512 px and 72 dpi. Place there a rectangle that may be made with the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) (radius of 25px)

The rectangle should have the next indicated Blending Options>Gradient Overlay parameters by making a mouse click on this layer on the layers’ panel.

Gradient Editor

You’ll get the next picture:

Then we have to make another rectangle that will be placed the same way as below:

Set next demonstrated Blending Options>Color Overlay.

Gradient Editor

Blending Options>Stroke

Gradient Editor

We’ll get the next picture:

Now we have to represent one more rectangle near the previous made one.

Do the same operation we did with the previous rectangles: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Gradient

Blending Options>Stroke

Gradient

Now we’ve got the picture that is shown below:

Take the Ellipse Tool (U) and try to make a black circle placing it the same way you may see below:

Set the transparency level demonstrated next table:

Select also Blending Options>Stroke.

and we’ve got the next circle:

This way it’s possible to represent the rest of the elements, demonstrated on the next picture:

Mark out all the layers on the layers’ palette containing the circles, putting them all together into a single one (Ctrl+E). After that we’ll select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to erase the unnecessary elements as it is demonstrated below:

Make a copy of the orange rectangle (Ctrl+J) to insert a highlight there. Make the copy smaller a little (Ctrl+T) and finally move off and make some corrections the element’s tops, applying the Pen Tool (P).

Fill 0% on the layers’ panel, giving the next properties for the layer Blending Options>Gradient Overlay:

Gradient

It’s the picture you’ll get:

Insert now the necessary text:

Give the appropriate gradient to the text:

Follow the next demonstrated text’s parameters:

Now we’ll represent one more rectangle for the highlight, having the next parameters Blending Options>Inner Glow:

Final Result:

Via:Rss Button

Video Tutorial

First open a new Box  400*400

[2] Select the Gradient Tool apply the following settings.

[3] Now fill the background with gradient tool.

[4] Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool apply the following settings.

[5] Create a shape

[6] After that add the following layer styles

[7] This is my result.

[8] Select the Elliptical Marquee Tol use these settings

[9] Hold Cntl+Click the shape layer to make a selection then create a shape like me

[10] Make a new layer fill that layer with #f26520

[11] After that press cntl+t, then right click to select the Flip Horizontal

[12] Select the Elliptical marquee Tool create a shape, make a new layer fill that layer with #f26520.

[13] Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool apply the following settings

[14] Hold Cntl+Click the first shape layer to make a selection then create a shape like me

[15] Go to Select > Modify > Contract and set it to 7

[16] Now create a new layer make sure your forground is set to white Now select the gradient tool and set it to Foreground to Transparant and drag it from top to bottom

[17] Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool create a shape like this, then right click to select the make selection

[18] Now create a new layer make sure your forground is set to white Now select the gradient tool and set it to Foreground to Transparant and drag it from top to bottom

[19] Change the Blending Mode to Overlay

[20] Here is my final result

Video Tutorial

1:
Create a New Document that is at least 75px wide. I made my document 600px X 100px but it is a bit roomy; you’ll see that a little bit later.

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Set your foreground color to: #1d1d1d. Now proceed with filling the background layer with the Paint Bucket Tool. Or you can go to Edit>Fill. Either way is fine.

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Now that we have set our background to a nice serene, dark color, it is time to move on to actually creating the button. So go back to your layer panel and create a new layer. You do this by either selecting the layer tab and clicking the “boxy” icon at the bottom of the panel or selecting Layer>New>Layer from the Program Menu. When done, were going to go ahead and place this into it’s own group called “menuspace” (sounds weird but it basically just stands for each menu item) so that we can duplicate the buttons with ease when done. To make a new group, select the folder icon on the buttom of the Layer Panel. You can also change the name of the layer if you wish to “background” if you want to beautify your layering even more.

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Now go back to the layer you just created that’s inside of the “menuspace” group. Make a selection using the Rectagular Marquee tool that is about 50px X 142px. Place it anywhere you’d like, but it would be more preferential to place it on the very left side of your canvas. Once done, fill in the Marquee with the same color you painted the background with: #1d1d1d.

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Deselect the box you began with, it is time for the fun part! Select this same layer again, and go to Layer>Layer Styles>Gradient Overlay. Make sure Opacity is at 100%, Blend Mode is Normal, Style is Linear, Angle is at 90 Degrees, and Scale is 100%. Don’t click OK yet, we aren’t finished!

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Now double-click the color area where the Gradient, this will bring you to the Gradient Editor. This is where we will bring life to your button.Follow the seetings on the grid below. The colors in order from left to right are: #000000, #272727, and #3d3d3d. Everything is at 100%. Click OK, then click ok again in the Layer Styles Panel.

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So far, you should have something similar to this:

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Now we will spice up the edges of this button to give it that realistic feel. Create a new layer within the “menuspace” group that sits above your last layer(only layer so far). First thing we will do is add gradients on each side to make the button seems a bit more real. Zoom in to the right side of your gradient and only select the tip of it (as seen below; 1px wide) using the Rectangle Marquee Tool. Now on your Tool Panel, change your foreground color to: #5f5f5f. When done, select the Gradient tool, which should already have your desired color set flowing into a transparent backdrop. Pull the gradient from the bottom of your selection to the top. When done, deselect the selection.

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Now while having this layer selected with the gradient streak you just made, we are doing to duplicate it, by right-clicking on the layer and selecting Duplicate Layer. Your canvas should look the same right now. When done, Transform the gradient streak by pressing Ctrl+T. Then rotate the gradient 180 Degrees. When done, drag it to the total opposite corner of the button. This will give your button look more realistic.

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The next thing we will do is add a black edge to both left and right sides of the button to give it a nice finishing touch. Create a new layer that sits above all other layers in the “menuspace” group. Using the Rectangle Marquee Tool, select the 1px outer right side of your button. Then on your tool panel, change the foreground color to black (#000000). When done, select the Paint Bucket tool and fill in the selected area.

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Be sure to duplicate the last layer you worked on and drag it to the other side. If you can’t see the black, it’s okay, it will play it’s part when you begin to drag and duplicate the menu items over and over. You should have something at this point similar to this:

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Alright! Zoom out and you should see the result of our button! Now you can add some text to it. I added Arial, 11px, None, Bold styled font to mine. But you can do as you wish! Most of all, I hope this was helpful.