Button Tutorial
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This tutorial will show you how to create a stylish looking button using patterns and the gradient tool. This tutorial written by Cameron ray.
- First, make a new image 500*500px, with a white background.
- Make a square selection.
- Move to center of screen.
- Make a new layer.
- Fill the square with with black.
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Hold CTRL and select the bottom half of the square. It should remove half of the selection. Fill with a white to transparent gradient, like this:
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Ctrl+shift+a to deselect all, then right click on the topmost layer, with the square, and click "Alpha to selection." This should select the whole square.
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Make a new layer, name it "Glow"
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Open the paintbrush tool, and select "Circle (19)" raise the "scale" to 5 and change the color to "#ab2020" Next, do as the image shows:
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Go to "Filters, blur, gaussian blur" and raise the blur to 25px.
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Next, click the rectangle select button, check "feather edges" and raise the slider to 20.0
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Hold CTRL and select the bottom half of the image. then erase the selected portion. You should have this.
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For this next part, you have to download the attached pattern file. Once you do that, create a new layer, and paste that on. Make sure only the square is still selected. Then lower the layer opacity to 6%. You should have this:
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Now, to make it look cool, find your favourite stock image, I chose this one, for the cool looks.
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Open it, resize it to about 25% of what it was, then gaussian blur that image 5px to make the button stand out.
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Next, we're going to make the drop shadow of the button.
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Alpha to selection the base of the button, then create a new layer. Color the selection black, and deselect.
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Next, gaussian blur the shadow 5px, it should look like this.
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Looks good, eh? Lets make it look better. Click the 2nd box from the left, next to the layers, it makes a chain link image. This links those layers together. Link all the images that are in the button together.
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Move to the bottom right corner of the image, all the layers should move together.
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Now, add some cool looking details, and BAM, you got yourself a button. (I didn't add this, but I made a mistake that I'm too lazy to fix atm, make the white to transparent gradient on a new layer, that is on the top, to make it look more glassy.)
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thanks for the tutorial :)
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Very Cool, thanks.
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Hey this is very cool! A very nice button ^^
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Thanks for this great tutorial!
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Good tutorial but why do you always use ctrl to deselect or to delete the selection but its a real good tut
but i dont underastand for what that big picture should be thougt its a tut just about a button
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Ctrl is an easier way, instead of manually re-selecting all of the picture, just ctrl+select to remove what you don't want. The convenience is insane. The picture adds a better overall look to it. The button technically /would/ be fine by itself, but the picture shows it more in context, like if your using it on a webpage.
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Nice tutorial, but I couldn't do it because I can't find where the link is to download the pattern :(.
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i was confused after #5, i have the old gimp. so it was a little challenging.
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I'm the same with eNcounter - I can't find the link to download the pattern.
Where is the attached
Where is the attached pattern file ?
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I would like to see this attatched pattern file. I've look all over this page for it. =(
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To all asking for the pattern-
Did you look at your patterns? Just use the warning pattern! Its exactly the same and comes installed with GIMP.
Drew
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I'm sorry, I forgot to attach the pattern. Yes, it is the warning pattern, but with white instead of yellow.
thanx for the information..
thanx for the information..
That looks splendid! Great
That looks splendid! Great job.
You can just open the pattern
You can just open the pattern as an image, edit the image to be black and white, and then save it as a new pattern.
Just refresh the patterns box, and you're good to go.
Cool! I'm gonna do something
Cool!
I'm gonna do something different by putting a sort of program like Word or Powerpoint and that can be my loading Signal!
Cool man! And thanks for the tut.
Thanks! This really helped
Thanks!
This really helped out a lot!
This is one badly written
This is one badly written tutorial.. after step 5 it just loses the plot. The knob's been talking about a square from the beginning, I don't know what he's talking about, looks more like a tiny rectangle.. and than what,,,twat???
This tute is fine assuming
This tute is fine assuming some GIMP knowledge. Commenter above is ridiculously harsh considering the amount of work the tutorial writer has even put into assembling these tutorial images (taking all the screenshots, etc). It's time-consuming, mate. Maybe you should try it sometime instead of running around the internet bagging peoples' hard work.
This tutorial is one of my
This tutorial is one of my first i saw and the first one i like. it made my do more of those but a little different. Again, awesome tutorials
Always looking for button
Always looking for button stuff. The part that I found confusing, is the deletes. My assumption is he is deleting the black rectangle "background" in the half selects. What is the point of deleting the top half after you have applied the white to transparent gradient to it? Am I missing something?
Anyone know where I can get said pattern?
I don't get number 6. Please
I don't get number 6. Please help me.
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