Vertical Navigation Buttons

This tutorial with guide you through how to make a these navigation buttons for your vertical navigation bars.

1.

Create a new document however big you want your button with a white background. I am using 95x30.

2.

Create a new layer and fill it with any colour.

3.

Either shift down the layer 2 pixels or you delete the top 2 rows of pixels.

4.

Set these blending options:

gradient overlay

Gradient: #FFFFFF to #CCCCCC

stroke

Color: #000000

5.

Add black (#000000) text and change the opacity to 60%.