Photoshop Buttons - How to Create Plastic Buttons

For Beginners and the Advance Photoshop Users

Creating Plastic Buttons can be done fairly easy in Photoshop. In a few easy steps you can create some nice looking Plastic Buttons. These buttons are used a lot on websites. If you are a beginner, don't worry. I will write the first part of this tutorial for beginners and the second part for the Advance users. In this tutorial I will show you how to create the Plastic Buttons in Photoshop. So let's begin.

How to Create Plastic Buttons in Photoshop for Beginners

Open your Photoshop program and let it load. Now you will need to create a new canvas. Go to the top of your Photoshop window and click File > New to create a new canvas. Create your canvas about 300 pixels by 300 pixels. You can crop your button when you are finished. Set your background to white and then click OK.

Now you will need to draw your button. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool from your toolbar and draw a rectangle on the canvas. You can make what ever size button you want.

Next you will need to Rasterize your layer. Right click on the Shape Layer in the Layers Panel and click Rasterize Layer from the pop up menu. If you do not see your Layers Panel then press F7 on your keyboard.

Right click again on that same layer and select Blending Options from the pop up menu. The Blending Options dialog box will pop up. You will see many options on the left hand side of that box. Below I will tell you which ones to click on and what Values to enter in the fields. Make sure that you click on the word and not just check the box. If you just check the box then you won't see the options for that effect.

Drop Shadow

Blend Mode - Multiply
Color - # 8d8d8d
Opacity - 50%
Angle - 120
Distance - 5
Spread - 0
Size - 5
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Noise - 0

Inner Shadow

Blend Mode - Multiply
Color - # cbcbc9
Opacity - 65%
Angle - 150
Distance - 1
Choke - 0
Size - 5
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Uncheck
Noise - 0

Inner Glow

Blend Mode - Screen
Opacity - 100%
Noise - 0
Color - Black
Technique - Softer
Source - Edge
Choke - 0
Size - 100
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Range -50%
Jitter -0

Bevel and Emboss