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Free Tutorials » Adobe Photoshop » Modern Buttons

Create some nice crisp modern navigation buttons for your site layout.

Step 1

Start a new document around 300 x 300 pixels with a white bg.

Select the "Rounded Rectangle Tool" as shown below:

Step 1 diagram

Step 2

Select your foreground colour as "#F9F9F9" & make the radius "2 pixels". Then make a shape similar to the below size:

Step 2 diagram

Step 3

Now right click the layer and select "Rasterize Layer", then right click the layer and select "Blending options".

Select "Gradient Overlay" and use the below settings:

Step 3 diagram

Step 4

Stroke:

Step 4 diagram

Step 5

Bevel & Emboss:

Step 5 diagram

Step 6

Now press OK, your button should look like this so far:

Step 6 diagram

Step 7

Select the "Eraser tool", and set it's mode to "Block" (top of screen).

Erase a block near the end of the button, here is my example:

Step 7 diagram

Step 8

Make a new selection similar to the size below:

Step 8 diagram

Step 9

Now make a new layer underneath the first button layer.
Press CTRL + D and fill the selection in with the colour: #FF7E00 and bring up the blending options.

Bevel & Emboss:

Step 9 diagram

Step 10

Stroke:

Step 10 diagram

Step 11

Now press OK, your button should now look like below:

Step 11 diagram

Step 12

You can now duplicate the layers and build your button menu up. Add some pixel text and you should be done!

Step 12 diagram

Tutorial comments

04.07.2008 -

juan249 says …

VERY NICE!

07.12.2007 -

kaosman says …

Beautiful

08.11.2007 -

wazdesign says …

Gonna Use This for My Website

03.11.2007 -

jgalaxy says …

Really nice buttons

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28.10.2004
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