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Soft Glowing Button

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1. Create a new document (150*150).

2. Fill the background with #FFFFFF using the paint bucket tool and select a square size shape with your rectangular marquee tool (set feather to 3px) and fill this shape with #72849e on a new layer using the paint bucket tool so you end up with this in the second step.

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3. Now select your button layer and go to edit - free transform and rotate it with 45°.

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4. The next step is to adjust the blending options on this layer like so.

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5. Your button should now look like this when you've added al the effects.

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6. Now type out some text (Arial Black is a good font for this kind of effect) and adjust the blending options on this text layer.

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7. The button should look like my example below if you followed all the steps correctly.

Soft Glowing Button