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Looking to design some glossy looking Web 2.0 button? Here's a simple Photoshop tutorial that gives you step by step how to get a red glossy button you see above.

1. Creating the base

Fire up a new canvas and adjust the following settings (marked in yellow) according to the image below. The rest should come as default. You might want to double check with the defaults too.

Create a new layer call 'Button'

On layer 'Button', select the Rounded rectangle tool

give it a radius of 7px

and draw a rectangle similar to the image below.

2. Red button

Right click on the Blending Options for 'Button' layer

and tweak the following settings for

Drop Shadow

Inner Shadow

Bevel and Emboss

Gradiant Overlay

Your button should look something like this

3. Glossy and a little tweak

Create a new layer call 'Glass'

Select Retangular marquee tool, make sure you are selecting 'Button' layer. HOLD your <ctrl> key and click on layer 'Buttons"s layer thumbnail. Your button should now be highlighted.

Select 'Glass' button now, hold the <Alt> key with Retangular marquee tool selected. Draw(cut) across the lower half of the button like the image below.

Fill the selected area with white color #ffffff using Paint Bucket Tool

Adjust the opacity to 18%

and you should have glossy button looking like this.

4. Pattern Overlay

Let's give the button some slight pattern overlay. I'll be using the custom stripe5px created earlier. Click here to read "How to create custom pattern". Create a new layer call 'Pattern' in between 'Button' and 'Glass' and proceed with Blending Options.

Select Pattern Overlay, choose Stripe5px (or any pattern you've created) and click OK then close the dialogue.

Make sure you are still on Rectangular Marquee tool, hold <ctrl> and click on Button's layer thumbnail to get the buttons shape. Fill up the selected area in 'Pattern' layer with Paint Bucket tool and adjust the layer opacity to 5%

5. Inserting Text

I'll throw in some random text in white #ffffff color with the following settings

and the following blending effects on my text's layer.

Drop Shadow

6. Final Output

You should get an image like this.

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Buttons Photoshop tutorials are probably one of the hottest categories in any Photoshop tutorials site and since Web 2.0 is such hot topics now, lets go about doing a simple button suitable for any Web 2.0 application of websites. Tutorial after jump.

Create a blank canvas at about 500px (width) x 400px (height) to start off the button design. Create a new layer call 'bg01'. Select the Rounded Rectangular Tool, hold SHIFT and draw a round sided square in the center. Any color is fine at the current stage.

Call up the Blending Options of 'bg01' and adjust the following styles:

Drop Shadow

• Opacity: 40%
• Distance: 0px
• Spread: 0%
• Size: 6px

Gradiant Overlay

• Color stop: 0%, #d00031
• Color stop: 100%, #ff2b5d

Hold CTRL, left click on 'bg01' Layer Thumbnail to select its shape. Go Select -> Modify -> Contract and enter the value '2px'. This will shrink the selected area by 2 pixel.

Create a new layer call 'bg02' and filled the highlighted (after shrink) area with any color. I use #000000 black here. Double click on 'bg02′ to launch up the Blending Option and tweak the following style.

Gradiant Overlay

• Color stop: 0%, #c6002f
• Color stop: 100%, #c6002f

Create another new layer for text, call it 'txt'. Insert your button's text. I'll use an alphabet to represent. The font styles I'm using here are as follow:

• Rounded Arial Bold
• 150pt

Same, after deciding your text, double click on 'txt' to launch the Blending Options and tweak the following styles.

Drop Shadow

• Opacity: 25%
• Distance: 0px
• Spread: 0px
• Size: 5px

Inner Shadow

• Opacity: 10%
• Distance: 0px
• Choke: 0
• Size: 10px

Bevel Emboss

• Depth: 1px
• Direction: Down
• Size: 0px
• Softten: 0px
• Highlight Mode Opacity: 32%
• Shadow Mode Opacity: 32%

Gradiant Overlay

• Color Stop:0% #d2d2d2
• Color Stop:100% #f0efef

Button is almost done. Let's give it a little glow over the top part. Hold CTRL, left click 'bg02' Layer Thumbnail to highlight the outer shape; choose Eclipse Marquee Tool. Now hold ALT, with Eclipse Marquee Tool selected, drag is across to minus out bottom half of the highlighted area. Refer to image above.

With the top portion highlighted and Eclipse Marquee Tool still selected, right click and choose Feather; enter 15px for the radius.

Create a new layer, call it 'glow' and fill the highlighted part with white [#ffffff]. This should add glow effect to the top part of your button. Final product should look something like the image below.