Photoshop quickly draws transparent stereo buttons with patterns

button | Transparent everyone first look at the following three-dimensional three-dimensional buttons, if you feel like, welcome to continue to watch.


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This tutorial is implemented in PHOTOSHOP7.0, as the parameter Setup Panel is different, please refer to version 7.0.

Focus on the results of Photoshop users know that the previous time the icon of the Apple machine, so whether the use of Photoshop or the pursuit of truth and good friends, all in their own desktop set off an application of the Apple icon Wave, which applies the most number of buttons. Most of the buttons at the time were simple three-dimensional buttons with text, and the color was also biased towards plain colors. Such as:


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Now, the three-dimensional three-dimensional buttons have changed a lot! What's the big change?? Do not worry, the technical changes are not much, in fact, just will be a plain to play, to the color tilt, and add some colorful small illustrations just, pay attention to the beginning of the article map examples to understand.

Well, less gossip, let me make my forum icon for example, together into three-dimensional three-dimensional button production Tutorial:

　　 one, draw the transition color of the circle

Open PHOTOSHOP7 First, press Ctrl + N, create a new width=48 pixels,height=48 pixels empty document, set the selection tool to the elliptical Marquee tool-Circle Selection Tool, double-click the mouse, In the upper part of the tool panel, the property settings bar is set: feather=0 px,anti-aliased,style=fixed size,width=45 px,height=45 px. Set the selection to a circle with a diameter of 45.


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Move the mouse to the canvas, click the left mouse button, and draw a fixed size round selection area. Note that instead of placing the selection in the middle of the canvas, press the arrow keys on the keyboard and move up the 2 pixels to the left to make the button shadow, highlighting the three-dimensional preparation. Of course, it is OK to finish the transition fill and then move, this is determined by the personal habit.


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Optionally choose a foreground color and set the background color to be lighter in the same color, as shown in Figure V:


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Here to insert a few more optional words, we choose the same color colors, if you have determined the foreground color, you want to set background colors, then double-click the background color, pop-up color picker-color Picker, this time the mouse shape will become a straw, You can move this shape of the mouse to the various color palette to choose a favorite color, in this drawing the foreground color, when the color picker automatically selected the foreground color, then we can quickly choose the color picker to the same color color depth of different colors.

Select the gradient fill Tool-gradient fill tool, and in the property bar, set the transition color to "foreground to background-foreground to background color", and the transition mode is "Linear grandient-linear transition". After Setup, the property tool is shown in the following illustration:


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Press the Shift key in the selection to draw the transition color from top to bottom, which completes the following figure:


Figure 7 　　 second, to draw a preliminary three-dimensional sense

Press Ctrl + D to remove the selection, double-click the Layer Application layer style "Add a Layer style" and select "Drop shadow-Drop-down Shadow" in the Layer style-layer Style Setup Panel, the parameter is set to: distance=2,size=2, The other is the default value. As shown in Figure eight:


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And then check "Inner Glow (internal glow)", the parameter is set to: Blend mode=multiply, other defaults. As shown in Figure nine:


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This step completes the canvas has initially shown the basic appearance of three-dimensional buttons, as shown below:


Figure 10 　　 third, strengthen three-dimensional stereoscopic

Create a new layer, select the "Elliptical Marquee tool-Circle" selection tool, draw an ellipse, about one-second in length, about One-third of the circle. Select the foreground color to be white, and press "G" to change the tool into a transition tool, set the transition color to "foreground to transparent-foreground to transparent", press "Shift" in the selection, and fill the transition color from top to bottom, the effect is as follows:


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Create a new layer, hold down the CTRL key, click on the circle layer, regain the circle-level selection, select "Select"-> "Modify"-> "Contract" in the menu, fill the number "2" and compress the selection by 2 pixels.

When you return to the canvas, select the Rectangle Selection tool, and hold down the ALT key, dragging the mouse over the upper left to the lower right of the selection, two-thirds of the entire selection, leaving One-third of the entire selection.

Still use white as the foreground color and select the Transition tool again, the transition color is "foreground to transparent-foreground to transparent", and in the selection, press the SHIFT key to fill the transition color from bottom to top.

Select the filters-filter "->" Gaussian Blur in the menu ... -Gaussian Blur, fill in "Radius" with the appropriate number, this example is 2, add a Gaussian blur effect. When you are sure to return to the working interface, set the transparency of this layer to around 68%. At this point, the entire icon production process completed Two-thirds, after completion of the following figure:


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If you want to do a vegetarian button, this step is basically completed, just add button text. The starting point of this article is to make a colorful three-dimensional three-dimensional buttons, so to access the next process:

Five, insert beautiful icon

In order to make the button more beautiful, we can add some logo button meaning icon. As to what kind of icon to add, look at individual decisions.

Open a ready-made icon, and after careful check, copy it to the button made above,


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Adjust the size of the icon to fit the button, in order to make the inserted icon color and button hue fusion, it is necessary to adjust the icon hue and saturation. OK Select Icon Layer, open menu "image-image"-> "adjustments-Adjust"-> "hue/saturation ... -hue/saturation, or press the shortcut key "Ctrl + U", enter the adjustment interface, move the slider, set: hue=-18,saturation=+30, other defaults.


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To highlight the three-dimensional effect of the button, set the transparency of the icon layer to 65%. Also remember to adjust this layer to the two layers created in the "fourth" operation. The completed buttons are shown in the following illustration:


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The button is saved as a PSD layered file, with this template, we can make a series of buttons for other colors by adjusting hue, saturation and brightness.

Only need to select the circular layer, press "Ctrl + U", the "saturation-saturation" adjusted to, "hue-hue" and "brightness" according to their own needs to adjust arbitrarily. The button has become another effect by setting the following figure parameter:


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The icon insertion method is the same as above, no longer doro.