Glossy Navigation Buttons
This tutorial with guide you through how to make a these glossy navigation buttons, which can be used throughout your site. Your result should be similar to this:
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Create a new document any size you want your button to be. I am using 80x20 |
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Fill the background with #333333 |
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Press Ctrl + A to select the whole canvas then go to Select » Modify » Border and set to 1px then press OK |
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Then go to Select » Inverse |
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Create a new layer and fill this with whatever colour you want. I am using #006699 |
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Using the rectantagular marquee tool draw a rectangle taking up 1/2 the height of the canvas like this:
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Create a new layer and fill it with White (#FFFFFF) |
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Set the opacity of the layer down to 50%. |
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Add some text and you are finished:
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