Elegant Buttons
Tutorial in Advanced, Basics, Web
These are interesting buttons which you will be able to use in your website. We will apply ((Blending Options)) in order to get the result.
Open a new document (240×165px and white backgroud).
Create a ((New Layer)).
With ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)), draw a rectangle. Fill it in with color #e9e9e9.
Keep using the same tool, but change its style. Select ((Substract From Selection)).
Take a look at the image below.
Fill in the new selection with color #0069cc.
Double click the laye to go to ((Blending Options)).
((Inner Glow)).
((Gradient Overlay)).
((Stroke)).
Ctrl + Click to activate the selection. Then, with ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)), ((Subtract from selection)) leave only the half active.
Create a ((New Layer)) and fill it in with white. Take a look at the image below.
Change the layer style to ((Soft Light)) and reduce the ((opacity)) to 40%
Write the title in the button using Arial and color #153997. It is very important that you place the text in the center of the button so that the next step is done correctly.
Standing in the text layer, go to ((Layer))-((Layer Style))-((Blending Options)).
((Gradient Overlay)).
((Stroke)).
Save the changes.
In the following image, I duplicated the layers. This is my result.
