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Glossy Navigation Buttons |
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 |
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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:    
| 1. | Create a new document any size you want your button to be. I am using 80x20 |
| 2. | Fill the background with #333333 |
| 3. | Press Ctrl + A to select the whole canvas then go to Select » Modify » Border and set to 1px then press OK |
| 4. | Then go to Select » Inverse |
| 5. | Create a new layer and fill this with whatever colour you want. I am using #006699 |
| 6. | Using the rectantagular marquee tool draw a rectangle taking up 1/2 the height of the canvas like this:
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| 7. | Create a new layer and fill it with White (#FFFFFF) |
| 8. | Set the opacity of the layer down to 50%. |
| 9. | Add some text and you are finished: 
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