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Sleek Button

Author: CoolJeba.com Author's URL: www.cooljeba.com More by this author

Today we will learn how to make a sleek looking button.

Step 1:

Start a new document of size 220x260. Fill it with a background colour as Black #000000.

Step 2:

Create a new layer and select the Rounded rectangle shape and draw a rectangle, like this

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Select the layer and choose gradient overlay.

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and select the following Gradient Colours.

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This is what I got my result as

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Step 3:

Now let us try to give some effect and text to the button to make it look more attractive. Select the Eleptical Marquee tool and draw a ellipse like this.

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Create a new layer and fill it with white colour and reduce the opacity of the layer to 27% you should see something like this.

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Now draw another elipse using Eleptical Marquee tool like this and move the selection to the left this will cut the top white layer.

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Now press the delete button and you are left with only the part in the right. Now ctrl+click on the button layer and press ctrl+shift+i to make the reverse selection and press the delete button. This is what you should get after doing it.

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Now you can see our button is taking some shape. let us add some text and shine to make it look more sleek. You can choose a pixel font to make it look more futuristic. This is what I have got.

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Now let us add some shine. Create a new layer above the text layer that we just created and draw a eleptical selection and use the single transparent gradient and deleted the extra part by inverse selection. You see this for the detailed instruction here . This is what I got

Sleek Button

Now jsut duplicate the layer set and change the text to add more similiatr buttons. You can also experiment with different colour to give it different looks.