This is a simple but nice button, and I’m just using it as a learning material.
How do I create the shadows at the top and the highlights at the bottom, in photoshop or pixelmator?
Anarchy?
Anyway, its a matter of matching colors and tones to get the desired “feel” mostly.
Aside from that, in PS what you have to use is layer effects.
- Drop shadow
- Inner Shadow
- Gradient overlay
- Stroke
Remember that Stroke allows you to use gradients (not just a solid color) and that you can adjust the color, opacity, blending mode and spread of “shaddow modes” ( they don’t always have to be dark)
I roughed up a button in 3 mins… so you can see how I applied those techniques. I will keep it on my site for a few days so you can download it.
thanks. i got the file. alright, shall play around with the settings and stuffs.