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Home Photoshop Tutorials How to create Glossy Buttons | Photoshop Tutorial

October 5, 2015 By castle 1 Comment

How to create Glossy Buttons | Photoshop Tutorial

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How to create Glossy Buttons

Step 1:
Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 400×200 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a white color. Now create a new layer set and name it ‘Glossy Buttons’.

Select the Rectangle Tool and above your screen under the options palette check anti-aliased. Create a new layer and draw a rectangle with 126×27 px dimensions and #B8F416 color shade.

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Step 2:
Under Layer Style (Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Glow and Stroke blending options to your green rectangle layer.

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Step 3:
Now draw a skinny rectangle with 134×12 px dimensions and #B8F416 color shade right above your large rectangle.

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Step 4:
Under Layer Style (Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Shadow and Gradient Overlay blending options to your skinny rectangle layer.

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Step 5:
Now choose the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial, bold, 16 pt, strong and #659000 color shade. In a new text layer type the name of your first glossy button.

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Step 6:
Under Layer Style (Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay and Stroke blending options to your text layer.

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Results:

How to create Glossy Buttons

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  1. Robert Thompson says

    August 9, 2018 at 7:53 am

    I searched for Photoshop tutorials on Google for weeks and came across this. This has been one of the best tutorials I have come across in a long time. Thanks for sharing.

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Bleeds explained

Basically, a bleed is artwork that goes over the edge of the printed sheet.

If your design needs to have a bleed then it’s important to allow 3mm overlap (see image A below). As the letterhead will be printed on oversize material (SRA4), this gives the guillotine operator a chance to cut into the artwork and produce a good finished letterhead. (see image B below).

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How to design a letterhead fig. 4

Why do we need a bleed?

If the artwork ended at the edge of the sheet and the guillotine cut was only 0.5mm out, then we could end up with an unsightly thin white strip down one edge of the sheet, which is not ideal.

Also, if there is a large stack of paper on the press, with the best will in the world there will be the odd sheet that doesn’t get fed through the press 100% accurately so if a bleed hasn’t been put in place this could cause issues.

Extending the artwork over the edge of the sheet allows for a little leeway when it comes to the time for trimming.

If you’ve set your workspace for A4 and intend to use bleeds then, depending on what software package you are using you may need to set the workspace to oversize A4 (SRA4), which measures 225mm x 320mm.

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