cjmcguinness Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it To complete this tutorial you will need to download and install the Drop Shadow plugin. Start with an 800 x 600 (default) canvas. Use the Ellipse Select tool and (holding the SHIFT key) drag a circle that has a Bounding Rectangle size of 400 x 400 pixels. IMAGE > Crop to Selection Set your Secondary Colour to completely transparent. IMAGE > Canvas Size: Select By Percentage with a setting of 125% (ensure the Anchor is set to 'Middle') You should now have a circle that is perfectly centred on your canvas. Set your Primary Colour to Dark Green - I used Hex: 00660A - and your Secondary Colour to White. Use the Magic Wand tool to select your white circle and use the Gradient tool, set on Radial, and use the right-mouse button to draw a gradient starting about 1/3 from the bottom of the circle up to the top. Duplicate the Background layer twice. Call the top layer 'Top' and the middle layer 'Middle'. Start with the 'Top' layer and choose the Move Selection tool (your circle should still be selected) and grab the top of your circle selection and begin dragging down until the height of the ellipse is 350px. Press Delete. Go to the 'Middle' Layer and us the Magic Wand to select the area outside the circle and CTRL+I to invert selection. Choose the Move Selection tool again and grab the top of the circle and drag down until the height of the ellipse is 250px. Delete. Go back to the 'Top' layer and EFFECTS > NOISE > Median: Radius 10, Percentile 0. Use the Magic Wand to select the outside area and CTRL+I to invert. Set your Primary Colour to White and Secondary Colour to Dark Grey. Fill the crescent White. Press CTRL+D to deselect then EFFECTS > BLURS > Radial Blur: Amount 2. Go to the 'Middle' layer and EFFECTS > NOISE > Median: Radius 10, Percentile 0. Use the Magic Wand to select the outside area and CTRL+I to invert. Choose the Gradient Tool and set it to Linear and draw a gradient (left-click) from the top of the crescent to the bottom. CRTL+D to deselect then EFFECTS > BLURS > Radial Blur: Amount 2. At this point select the the Background Layer and EFFECTS > BLURS > Radial Blur: Amount 2. On the 'Top' layer set the blending mode to Screen and adjust the Opacity to 100 (F4 to access Layer Properties). Repeat this on the 'Middle' layer. Create a new layer and call it 'Control'. Move the 'Control' layer down to above the background and below the 'Middle' layers. This is where you are going to put the text or image that relates to your button. I am going to make this a 'Refresh' button and will be using the "Webdings" font - letter 'q'. Select the Text tool and change the font to 'Webdings'. Increase the font size to 200 (you can do this by typing directly into the font size control). Click onto your image and type the letter 'q'. This should give you a 'Refresh' symbol. Use the control arrow to position the symbol in the centre of your button. EFFECTS > Drop Shadow: Offset-X 0, Offset-y 10, Blur Radius 10. Flatten the image and EFFECTS > Drop Shadow: same settings again. This tutorial is also available in my Googlepages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 10/10 tut, now I know how they make the browser skins for FF Quote "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" [ dA Paint.NET Chat :: Yata on dA ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picc84 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Wow! Really cool! They look great! maybe if you use a gradient from the top color to the bottom color in the same place (same exact place as the current highlights) it may look better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 I think this could get sticky'd. This is perfect for people just starting out with PDN, and the results are pretty darn good. Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFly Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 They are very good buttons. I shall have to try this out some time. Also, I like the green theme you've got going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Nice tut... You should precise if the radial blur on top and mid layer are done within the selection or if we have to unselect. And at some point in the tut you should do a radial blur as well on the background layer. Thanks. Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squ1rrel Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 WOW thats nice! ~> sticky'd Quote visit my flickr account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjmcguinness Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 Nice tut...You should precise if the radial blur on top and mid layer are done within the selection or if we have to unselect. And at some point in the tut you should do a radial blur as well on the background layer. Thanks. Thanks for the feedback. I have updated the original post with the instructions to deselect on the 'Top' and 'Middle' layers before each Radial Blur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Yet another great tutorial from cjmcguinness. If there was a rating system, you would have a Winner. Quote Watch this space. It will do tricks, sooner or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eraesr Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Very nice buttons. Reminds me a bit of the large buttons in the Nintendo Wii Internet Channel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Adding "like the Wii ones" in the title of this topic will boost your views Quote No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squ1rrel Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 is it normal that after pressing "delete" everything on that layer is gone? :? :? edit: oh ive got it Quote visit my flickr account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Adding "like the Wii ones" in the title of this topic will boost your views They are only similar, and the "Wii ones" are way simpler. These really do look more like some of the firefox theme's buttons... Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicke Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 happy with it gonna make new with other colors next time this Tut should get Sticky:ed coz its so Cool and Easy to do :O even i made right at first try and im so new to this programm ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 When you said to IMAGE > Canvas Size: Select By Percentage with a setting of 125% You should now have a circle that is perfectly centred on your canvas. Mine dose not turn out that way, it turns out like so: I set the % as so: Don't know what I'm doing wroung Also, my try turned out like this, which is another problem. Any help? Quote "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" [ dA Paint.NET Chat :: Yata on dA ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjmcguinness Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 When you said to IMAGE > Canvas Size: Select By Percentage with a setting of 125%You should now have a circle that is perfectly centred on your canvas. Mine dose not turn out that way, it turns out like so:] I set the % as so: Don't know what I'm doing wroung Any help? On your Canvas Size dialog there is a setting at the bottom called 'Anchor'. Yours is set to 'Top Left', hence your image is anchored to the top left corner. Change the anchor position to 'Middle' and your circle will be centred on the canvas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 So who can we thank for stickying this tut? Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Yes, thanks, didn't notice that, could you place that in the first post? Top left is default if you never changed it before. Quote "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" [ dA Paint.NET Chat :: Yata on dA ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjmcguinness Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 Yes, thanks, didn't notice that, could you place that in the first post? Top left is default if you never changed it before. Yata, Thanks for pointing this out. I have updated the original post accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 My internet died yesterday. Winner! My result: And while I'm here: Background [1024x768] Symbol [1024x768] Quote Watch this space. It will do tricks, sooner or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 That's very nice Six. ^ Quote •♪♫♥♫♪• |- The Rules -|- çobblestones -|- CaMo -|- MeTaL -| ╠═╧╨»Φ«╨╤═╣ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Tile Reflection? Looks pretty epic because there's not much detail loss. Quote Watch this space. It will do tricks, sooner or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Yeah, it really messed up the text...But in a good way! Quote •♪♫♥♫♪• |- The Rules -|- çobblestones -|- CaMo -|- MeTaL -| ╠═╧╨»Φ«╨╤═╣ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliph Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Ok, I tried your tutorial, and I had a few problems. When you said to make the circle exactly 400 Pixels, for my screen, it was the size of my fingernail or less. So I made it as big as your picture on the tutorial. Another thing, for the TEXT, I could not find "Drop Shadow" under the "Effects" Tab. Any help? On my first try, this is what I came out with. Quote L!ve in your world, Get OWNED !n mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjmcguinness Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Ok, I tried your tutorial, and I had a few problems.When you said to make the circle exactly 400 Pixels, for my screen, it was the size of my fingernail or less. Caliph, Have you tried adjusting the zoom level? If you set this to 'Window' whatever your canvas size it'll comfortably fit into your screen at a size you can work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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