Creating Crystal Button (Part 1)

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Crystal Button

Step 1.

Create a new drawing with 2 layers, fill Layer 1 with white color background and use Ellipse Tool to create a shape on Layer 2 and fill it with black color. You may want to create other shape, e.g. circle, square, rectangle and etc.


Step 2.

Right-click on Layer 2, choose Blending Options... to open the Layer Style dialog box. Check/enable the following properties and set their values according to the screenshoots:

- Drop Shadow
- Outer Glow
- Bevel and Emboss
- Gradient Overlay


Drop Shadow


Outer Glow


Bevel and Emboss


Gradient Overlay


Step 3.

Create a new Layer 3 and draw a smaller shape on top of the bigger one. Select Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur..., and set the value of the Radius to 1.0 pixels.



 



Step 4.

Right-click on Layer 3, choose Blending Options... to open the Layer Style dialog box. Check/enable the following properties and set their values according to the screenshoots:

- Drop Shadow
- Gradient Overlay


Drop Shadow


Gradient Overlay



Step 5.

The final result:



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