What we'll be doing today:
Materials Needed:
Step 1: Open the Wood Texture with Photoshop
The first step is to download the wood texture and to open it with Photoshop. The image is 1024x768px and will be the background of our project.
Step 2: Building the Button Background
The button I have in mind is composed of 2 parts: the background of the button which will be like a transparent surface and the main button. For the main button, we'll use a very nice green gradient which perfectly connects with the wood texture.
Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool(U) and with a radius of 40px draw a white shape of 360x80px. This will be an awesome big button!
We're going to stylize the shape by adding an inner-shadow, a stroke and reducing the opacity of the shape to 25%. So, double click the shape's layer and add the next blending options:
The first half of the button looks like this:
Step 2: Building the Main Button
This step is all about the second half of the button. Select again the Rounded Rectangle Tool(U) and with a radius of 30px draw a shape of 340x60px and place it in the center of the first shape so that between the middle shape and button's background to be a margin of 10px. The effect created will be great.
Beautify the layer by adding the next blending options:
Applying the blending options above, you should obtain the second half of the button:
Final Touches
This is the last step. We're gonna add some final touches. We'll begin with the download icon, so download the icon from the "Materials Needed" from the beginning of the tutorial. Add it to the project but resize it from 36x36px to 24x24px to integrate well with the button. To resize an element in Photoshop, press Ctrl+T or just go to Edit - Transform - Scale.
The button needs some text and I think that a sentence like "Download this tutorial" fits very well. For your information, the font I used is the free Museo 500, an elegant and very popular font.
The result:
With these final touches, our button is done.
If you have any questions or just want to share with us your button, don't hesitate to leave us a comment in the comments section. Till then, take a look at what we've done today!
