I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorial on creating a 3D effect webpage button.
Tutorial sharing:
Step 1: button shape
We start with creating a basic webpage button shape. Select the rounded rectangle tool and click any position in the drawing board to open the rounded rectangle window. Enter the numbers shown in the following figure to get the desired shape. Select light gray as the fill color.
Step 2: 3D settings
In the selected status of this rectangle, choose effect menu 3D> protruding and diagonal. On the right side of the following figure, you can see that the default setting is changed only when "rotate around X axis" is specified. Generally, I prefer to use an angle shape, but sometimes I cannot get satisfactory results. In this example, if you choose a "long circle", the angle shape will change more obviously, the Edge will be more round, and you don't have to worry about the highlights and shadows.
If you increase the height value, the circular edge will become thicker.
In the protruding and diagonal Options window, click more options to open the entire dialog box. Pay attention to the options at the bottom. If you want to highlight the upper left corner, move the light to the top of the figure below, or you want to highlight the lower right corner to move it to the bottom.
Step 3: 3D buttons
The following figure shows my settings. Change the "rotate around X axis" value, select a long circle from the angle, change the height value from 4pt to 6pt, and then move the light slightly to the left.
Step 4: color the button
When the 3D button has been selected, select object> extended appearance command. Now, use the direct selection tool (A) to select the internal rounded rectangle and fill it with the linear gradient shown in the following figure. Set the angle to 90 degrees. When this rectangle is selected, double-click the content in the appearance panel (because the shape is in the group) so that you can see the existing attributes. Next, select the light-emitting command in effect and use the following values.
Step 5: Add the luminous effect
Select an existing color fill in the appearance panel, click the copy selected item icon below, you will get the second color fill, change the gradient to a black and white gradient, and set the angle to 50 degrees. Change the blending mode to a filter color and reduce the opacity to 75%.
Copy the second fill as before, use the same gradient, change the angle to 140%, and the opacity to 75% to 90%.
Step 6: Use art brushes
Use the direct selection tool (A) to select an internal rectangle and copy and paste it from the Object menu to the previous command. Drag the new rectangle out of the button group in the layers panel because we don't want it to be placed there. Remove an existing attribute and add a black stroke to it. When this rectangle is selected, use the object path to add the anchor command twice to add an additional anchor. Next, use the scissors tool (C) to cut the shape twice and then delete the bottom part.
Now you need an art brush. Step 9 explains how to use it. The only difference is that this time I started with an elliptical shape of 100x3 pixels, instead of 200x5 pixels. After you drag it to the paint panel and save it as a new art brush, use it to draw from the top of the path and set the proportion to 2pt.
Step 7: add a Shadow
Copy and paste the rectangle, drag it out of the button group, and place it before the group. Remove the existing appearance and fill it with black (1 ). Copy and paste the black rectangle to the front, change the fill color, and distinguish it from the black rectangle. Press twice to move the red rectangle up (2 ). The added value of the keyboard should be set to 1 pixel (edit menu preferences regular ).
Select two shapes and then subtract the top layer from the path finder panel. The remaining thin shapes should be black. (3) change the blending mode to the front slice and reduce the opacity to 20%.
Step 8: shine
Next, use the pen tool (P) to draw a path in the middle of the button, as shown in the following figure. Copy and paste the internal rectangle to the front, remove the existing appearance, and add a black stroke. Select the rectangle and the blue rectangle and the path, and select the split in the path finder panel. In the Object menu, select cancel Group and delete the bottom part.
Fill the shape with a linear gradient from black to white, with the angle set to a negative 90 degree. Change the blending mode to a filter color (black turns transparent) and the opacity is reduced to 30%.
Step 9: Text
Let's add text. Use the text tool to type the text "try now", use the Anja Eliane font, 35pt size. You can download the font here. Select an extension in the object menu, and fill the text with the linear gradient shown below. The angle is set to a negative 45 degrees. Next, select the effect menu and apply the projection shown below.
Now, type "30 day trial", use the Arial font, bold, 15 PT size, select the extension from the Object menu, fill the text with white, and add the projection effect as shown in the following figure again.
Step 10: Arrow
Open the symbol library menu from the symbol panel and find the arrow 24 in the arrow category. Drag it to your workspace and press the "disconnect symbolic link" icon at the bottom of the panel. Ungroup the image twice, select effect menu, style, and rounded corner, and apply the radius of 3 pixels (1 ). Fill the arrow with the linear gradient shown below, and then add a PT stroke (2) to it with the color shown below ).
Move the arrow to the button, select effect menu, and apply the projection effect.
Select this arrow and select the extended appearance from the Object menu. The purpose is to expand the two effects of the application. Then, select the Object menu, change, and zoom. Select 80%, and click copy. In this way, you will get a smaller arrow. Place them as shown in the following figure to ensure they are horizontally aligned. Select both of them, and then select "Object menu" to convert. Select vertical, click copy, and place the two new headers on the right. Then, the button is initially formed.
Step 2: Shadow
The only thing missing now is the shadow at the bottom of the button. Select the elliptic tool (L), draw a flat oval ellipse at the bottom, and set the fill color to black (1 ). Place the ellipse after the button, and then select the Object menu path offset path to apply the offset of at least 7 pixels. You will get a smaller elliptic (2) in the middle ). Set the opacity of the large oval to 0%, select both, select the Object menu, mix, and select the number of steps specified by 25, select "Object menu"> "hybrid" to create (3 ). Reduce the opacity of the resulting hybrid group to 75%. If you place the button on a special background, change the blending mode to the front pane.
Here is the final result.
Step 2: other colors
You can use this button to create different colors. All you need to do is copy the button and make some changes. In the following figure, you can see three examples: blue, green, and purple. In the figure below, all visible shapes are not changed, keeping them original. And those hidden means that they will be modified. Let's do it one by one.
We start with the rounded rectangle. Use the direct selection tool (A) to select it and check the appearance panel. Change the first gradient fill to a new gradient as shown below. Other attributes are not modified. The same method is used for green and blue buttons.
For text, simply change the color in the middle of the gradient from light orange to light blue, light green, and light purple. The text "30 day trial" remains unchanged.
Select the arrow, as shown below, to change the gradient fill and stroke. The effect remains unchanged.
In the end, just as you did in step 10, select the extended appearance, then zoom in to get a smaller arrow, and reverse the two arrows.
Final image:
This is the final image. Four buttons can be applied to the webpage. If you want to save them as the format used by the web page, please refer to my other tutorial for detailed explanation.
All right, the above information is the detailed tutorial for creating a 3D effect webpage button for the users of Illustrator's software, you can see that the user here, Xiaobian believes that everyone is very clear about the drawing method, then everyone will go to follow the small series of tutorials to draw their own 3D effect Web page button.
