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Difficulty: difficulty 1/5

GIMP version: 2.3.14

Category: Buttons, icons, web

Author: devvv

Steps: 14

Needed time: ca. 15 min

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Tutorial: Create soft glassy buttons

Written by devvv (06 Jul 2007 11:10 PM)

This tutorials shows you how to create a soft and glassy / glossy button.

  1. Create a new file: 150x35 px. White background. Activate the gradient-tool (L). Now choose #005a71 as primary (foreground) color. Use #00eaff as background-color. Drag the gradient from inside the upper edge of the image to the bottom: cname the layer: "Gradient". I named it "Farbverlauf" which is the german word for gradient.
    screenshot of step 1
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  2. Create a new transparent layer. Name it "Glass".

    Choose white as foreground color. In the preferences of the gradient-tool use the drop-down and choose the "Foreground to Transparent"-gradient (the 4th one). Make a gradient again on this layer from top to bottom.
    screenshot of step 2
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  3. Take the Rectangle Selection-Tool and make a new selection starting from the bottom left as seen on the image below.
    screenshot of step 3
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  4. Cut this part by pressing DEL or (CTRL+K if you still use GIMP 2.2).

    - Selection / None to deselect all.
    screenshot of step 4
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  5. Next we create a small little border. Add a new layer, fill it totally black. Name it "Border" or "Rahmen" as i did in the picture.
    screenshot of step 5
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  6. Press CTRL+A to select all, then go to SELECTION / SHRINK: 1px.

    Remove the selected part and a border should remain.
    screenshot of step 6
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  7. Add a new layer again (transparent). Name it "Desaturate" (i called it "entfärben").

    Now activate the Gradient-Tool again. Make sure the "Foreground to Transparent"-Option is still selected in the preferences.

    Use black as foreground-color. Drag the gradient again from top to bottom, but this time a bit below the bottom edge/border of the image (into the gray space).
    screenshot of step 7
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  8. On the same layer do the same gradient but from right to left, again a little bit into the gray space of the left image border.

    At the end only little blue to the bottom left should shine through.
    screenshot of step 8
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  9. Now press CTRL+L to view the layers dialog or go to Dialog / Layers. Set the layers mode to "Saturate" - in the image its called "Sättigung".

    This mode makes all parts of the layers below gray (all parts that are filled with the black on this layer).
    screenshot of step 9
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  10. The button should look like this now:
    screenshot of step 10
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  11. Now take the text-tool and write any text to the layer. Move the text to the left corner.

    The text layer has to be below the black "Saturate"-layer.

    Activate the "Border"-layer and set the transparency of this layer to 20%.
    screenshot of step 11
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  12. Now we're making the whole button a little nicer.

    - Edit / Copy visible
    - Edit / Paste

    Then press the add layer button to get the pasted on a new layer.
    screenshot of step 12
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  13. - Colors / Brightness & Contrast: -20 / +30
    screenshot of step 13
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  14. You're done ;) If you want to test some other colors do it the fast way ->

    - Add layer
    - Fill with your preferred color
    - set Layer mode to "Color".

    A little tip: The buttons look best on white background with a very slight black shadow.
    screenshot of step 14
    click to enlarge
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria
This work is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria.

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From: Anonymous (09 Jun 2008 08:42 PM)

Great work! Thanks a lot. Now I can make nice buttons for my homepage.

From: devvv (05 Sep 2007 11:09 AM) – Send a private message

yes there are lots of differences between 2.2 and 2.4.

take a look into our downloads section. if you're using windows xp/vista gimp 2.4 rc1 is the latest version for you, if you're using linux or ubuntu gimp 2.4 rc2 is the latest at the moment.

From: TeremiNandor (05 Sep 2007 10:45 AM)

Very good tutorial I had only one problem in the 3. I couldn't use rectangle selection tool I could always select always only a littler area just 30×13 px and I dont know why I use GIMP 2.2 and sometimes I found not the sames thing in the Dialog boxes like in the tutorials and sometimes the shortcouts are not the same. It is because of the diference between GIMP 2.2 and GIMP 2.3 or GIMP 2.4 or not isn't it? How could I update to version 2.3 or 2.4? I must reinstal the whole program or is there a easier way? Thanks for the answers! a lot

Nandor

From: Rusdianto (18 Aug 2007 06:54 AM)

I can Study

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