Method of making metal button effect

Button everyone on the web may often find some way to use Photoshop to make metal effect buttons, and many of the effects with FW will seem to be troublesome. In fact, we can also make beautiful metal effect buttons with the flexibility to use the eye Candy 4000 le Filter and its full version Eye Candy 4000 filter to provide chrome effect commands. Let's take a look at the specific production steps below.

First of all, let's take a look at the effect chart:

"Prompt" This example ultimately completes the need to install the full version of the Eye Candy 4000 filter.

1. Create a new file and draw a circle object in the edit area. With solid fill, color is #660000, stroke color is set to none. When you have finished setting, press the "Ctrl+shift+d" key to clone an identical object, and now the edit area object is shown in the picture.

2, open the Layer board, select the layer on the bottom of the circular object, select the properties panel on the effect menu in the "Eye Candy 4000 | Chrome "effect command, in the pop-up" Chrome "Settings window in the following figure shown in the settings.

"Note"]reflection Map area specific Settings select "Outdoor.tif" mode. The specific parameters of each of the remaining settings options can be adjusted according to the specific size of the circle you are drawing.

After the "Chrome" effect command is set, the editing area has the following graphic effect.

3. Select the circular object located at the top of the layer panel, select the "Shadow and Halo | Inside Glow" effect command on the effect menu in the property panel, and make the relevant settings as shown in the following figure, where the color is set to black.

"Hint" "Inside glow" effect command is mainly for the implementation of the final effect to play a foundation, we can in the final effect of the time to look back to see the role of this step.

4, still select the circular object located at the top of the layer panel, select Eye Candy 4000 in the effect menu on the property panel le| Bevel boss "effect command, in the pop-up" Bevel Boss "settings box for specific settings, the specific settings of each parameter as shown in the following figure.

After setting, the graphic effect of the edit area is as follows.

5, continue to select the Properties panel on the effect menu in the "Eye Candy 4000 le| Bevel boss "effect command, in the pop-up" Bevel Boss "settings box for specific settings, the specific settings of each parameter as shown in the following figure.

After you set it again, the graphic effect of the edit area is shown in the following figure.

6, or select the Properties panel on the effect menu in the "Eye Candy 4000 le| Bevel boss "effect command, in the pop-up" Bevel Boss "settings box for specific settings, the specific settings of each parameter as shown in the following figure.

After this step is set, the editing area now has the following graphic effect.

7. Select the Adjust colors | Levels Effect command in the effect menu on the Properties panel, and make the specific settings shown in the following figure in the "Levels" setting box that pops up.

After setting, the graphic effect of the edit area will be as follows, now the effect of the metal button has been basically completed.

8, if the button surface color or edge color effect is not satisfactory, you can select the property panel on the effect menu in the "Adjust color | hue/saturation" effect command to adjust. This step adjusts the color of the upper circle object, and the specific hue/saturation setting is shown in the following illustration

Add the relevant text and make some effect settings, the final effect will appear as shown in the following figure.

Well, this tutorial is all over, and the application of the Eye Candy 4000 filter plays a key role in the formation of the effect, flexible use of these filter effects, I believe everyone can make their own beautiful special effects.