How to make the glass button

When developing details of graphic design of Internet pages the simulation of different materials is quite often used: stone, steel, tree. Glass is popular in this regard too. The effect of a glass surface, as a rule, is created by means of a shadow and imposing of flares by simple or graduated fill. For simulation of glass it is possible to use some styles available to users of the Photoshop program. It is required to you • - Photoshop program. Instruction 1. It is possible to simulate glass in Photoshop, having drawn all necessary shadows and flares manually. Besides, there is an opportunity pretty fast to create effect of a glass object, having applied to a figure ready style. To make the glass button, create the new document with a transparent background. As a color mode select RGB. 2. Glass buttons, most often, do rounded shape. For creation of a basis of the button select Rounded Rectangle Tool or Ellipse Tool. Clicking the corresponding button include the Fill Pixels mode in panels of settings of the tool. 3. Draw a flat basis of the button. For this purpose clamp the left mouse button and stretch the turning-out figure. If you need to make the round or square button, clamp the SHIFT key in the course of drawing. 4. Open a palette of styles the option Styles from the Window menu. Styles which will be required to you are not loaded into a palette by default, but they can be opened, having clicked the button in the form of a triangle in the upper right corner of a palette. In the opened menu select the Web Styles item, and in a dialog box which will appear before loading of styles, click the Append button. It will allow you to leave the styles which are already loaded into it in a palette, having added to them new. 5. Apply to a layer with a basis for the button Red Gel, Yellow Gel or Green Gel style. That to make it, click the icon of style. 6. Make an inscription on the button. For this purpose click on the Horizontal Type Tool tool, click any area of the document and enter an inscription. Click the Move Tool tool and move an inscription on the button. 7. If you want the inscription to be under the surface of glass, drag a layer with an inscription under a layer with the button. For obtaining the text which is slightly pressed into the surface of glass click on a layer with an inscription and select the Blending Options item from a context menu. On the Bevel and Emboss tab select Pillow Emboss style from the revealing Style list. In the Technique list you will need the Chisel Soft point. Assign to the Depth parameter value about three hundred percent, and for Size you will expose value in one pixel. You can leave other settings by default. 8. Color of the turned-out button can be changed. For this purpose open the Color Overlay tab in the Blending Options window and change color, having clicked a color rectangle. Remove a tick in a checkbox of Outer Glow or open this tab and change color of an outer glow of the button for more suitable. 9. Save the button in the form of the file with layers in the psd format the Save command from the File menu.