Added: 8 August, 2007
Group: Photoshop
Create Web 2.0 Button
Author: Larry
page: 1
Create web 2.0 button
It’s popular. It’s stylish. Easy to create in Photoshop and every serious web site should have a nicely fitted button. You can use it for specifying categories on your site or just processing forms. It has multiple usage.
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 1](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/15.jpg&w=450)
We are going to be creating those web 2.0 buttons that have been all the rave somewhat recently.
Step 1. New document…
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 2](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/1.jpg&w=450)
Step 2. Use the rounded rectangle tool to create a button (black as a foreground is just fine).
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 3](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/2.jpg&w=450)
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 4](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/3.jpg&w=450)
Step 3. Right-click anywhere with the rounded rectangle tool still selected. Select “Make Selection” and then click “OK” in the opening windows/dialog box.
Now it is time to choose a color. What did you say? Yellow/Orange? Why sure, alrighty. For a yellow/orange theme select a slightly light yellow and a light orange.
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 5](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/4.jpg&w=450)
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 6](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/5.jpg&w=450)
Step 4. Dish out your gradient tool of course with the following settings…
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 7](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/6.jpg&w=450)
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 8](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/7.jpg&w=450)
Now, press “Ctrl+D” to deselect then create a new layer. “Ctrl+Click” on the old layer then Select > Modify > Contract, 2 px.
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 9](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/8.jpg&w=450)
Press “D” then “X” to get white as your foreground color. Make sure the gradient has the following settings then create a gradient from top to somewhere three quarters of the way down.
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 10](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/9.jpg&w=450)
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 11](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/10.jpg&w=450)
Press “Ctrl+D” to deselect then make a marquee selection like such:
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 12](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/11.jpg&w=450)
Press “Ctrl+Shift+I” to invert the selection, then press “Del” (to delete).
Step 5. Take this moment to rename your layers…
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 13](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/12.jpg&w=450)
Step 6. Create a new layer, rename it to “text”, then type in some text.
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 14](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/13.jpg&w=450)
Step 7. Now you can use the techniques learned in the tutorial “Web 2.0 Text” in order to completely finish your web 2.0 button.
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 15](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/14.jpg&w=450)
![Tutorial Create web 2.0 button 1](/img/phpThumb.php?src=6/15.jpg&w=450)
Final.
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