Create Button or Icon

May 13th, 2007 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Buttons

Choose the Ellipse Tool (U) again to draw on the button’s central part a kind of illumination coming from beneath, colored in black.

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

The layer’s parameters:
Blending Options>Outer Glow

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

Blending Options>Inner Glow

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

Blending Options>Stroke

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

Make a copy of the recently made layer and select the Free Transform option to make the copy smaller, applying different parameters too.
The flare’s placement should be changed with the Move Tool (V) when having opened the next shown palette:
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Button or Icon in Photoshop CS

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  • Natanela

    30/08/2010

    This is beautiful. I am doing mostly buttons & icons at the moments. Proud to be the first one to comment on this. I liked how every step is so easy and yet gives it a complex look. thank you.

  • sledge

    13/12/2011

    Awesome tut keep making more like it or completely different.