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Creating a Metal Button
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Creating a metal button:
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1.
-Use the pencil tool and draw a box of 75x24 pixels.
-Fill the box with a shade of gray.
-Draw a white line a little above the center of the square.
Your picture should look like the picture to the left when zoomed in.
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2.
Select
the part below the white line.
Set foreground color to 136/136/136 and background color to 58/58/58
Take the gradient tool and make a gradient from top to bottom (hold shift while moving your mouse) |
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Now
select the part above the white line.
Set foreground color to white and background color to 101/101/101
Take the gradient tool and make a gradient from bottom to top (hold shift while moving your mouse) |
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Make a new layer.
Take the pencil tool and draw two vertical white lines at the edges of the picture (stay within the black box).
Set your layer to Overlay and change the opacity to 75%
There your done, add some shadow, little insets and you're done
You can always experiment with the various shades of grays to get stronger shadow/highlight effects or add an adjustment layer for hue/saturation to give it some color. |
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If you have any questions or comments regarding this tutorial please post it in this thread
http://forum.teamphotoshop.com/showthread.php?t=24767
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