Web Design Articles – Effective Use of Photoshop
Effective Use of Photoshop: Making a Metallic Button with a Matte Finish More buttons that use gradients! We discussed earlier on the gradient button-making skills in “Making a Gradient Button”. We’re going to make matte-finish metallic buttons like the ones shown here. Matte-finish metallic buttons Solution Rectangular, Matte-finish, Metallic Button 1. First, create a simple raster gradient button. We shall use two different shades of gray. Creating a grayscale gradient button 2. Lock the layer by clicking on the Lock Transparent Pixels icon at the top of the Layers palette. Select a light gray (I’ve used #ebeef0) and use the Pencil Tool (B) to draw left-hand and top borders on the rectangle button layer. 3. Select a dark gray (Weve used #515a60) and draw bottom and right-hand borders onto the button layer, as shown in the example below. Remember to k thrush treatment eep your lines straight by holding down Shift as you’re drawing them. Drawing borders 4. Sure, we could use the button as is, but we’d like to do a few more things to it. First, we’re going to apply a noise filter to our button. Before we do this, make sure that you’re satisfied with the size, shape, and color of the button, as it’s hard to make changes to these properties after the filter has been applied. To add the matte finish select Filter > Noise > Add Noise. This will give the button a grainy look and display the Add Noise dialog box. Be sure to check the Monochromatic checkbox, and adjust the amount of noise that you want to introduce. We’ve set here as 2%. Adding noise 5. If you feel that the grainy effect is too pronounced, select Edit > Fade Add Noise to drop it back a bit. Change the opacity of the fade (in the example below, we have set as 50%) and click OK.