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Polished Brass Buttons
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Polished Brass Buttons
Created by: Zu
Please visit ZuAtHome
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Ok in order to start this tutorial you will need to download Greg's Factory Output 2 filters.
Just click to the left to get them.
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Ok let's start by opening a new image. 200 x 200, with a white background and 16 million colors.
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Click on your foreground color tab and change it to a light grey.
Red: "220"
Green: "220"
Blue: "220"
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Click on your selection tool and use these settings:
Selection Type: Rectangle
Feather: "0"
Antialias: Checked
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Click on your canvas and start at 50, 50 and drag it out and down to 170, 100.
You should have a nice rectangle shape for your button.
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Now we are going to click on our flood fill bucket to fill our selection. Use these settings:
Blend Mode: Normal
Match Mode: RGB
Tolerence: "30"
Opacity: "100"
Left click 1 time into your selection to fill it up.
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Time to give our selection a buttonized look. Go to effects - 3D effects - buttonize.
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When the buttonize window opens type in these settings:
Height: "10"
Width: "10"
Opacity: "60"
Transparent: Checked
Go ahead and click ok when you are done.
DO NOT DESELECT!!
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We want to expand our selection, so go to selections - modify - expand. Expand your selection by 7.
Your image should look like the one here at the left.
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Click on the flood fill tool again and use the same settings as before.
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Fill the area that we expanded. Your button should look like the one on the left.
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We need to expand our selection 1 more time. Go to selections - modify - expand. Expand it by 2.
Click ok. Your button now looks like this. (Left side). See how there is a little space with no color.
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Time to give our button a hot wax coating. Go to effects - artistic - hot wax. Do this 1 time.
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See how your button looks now?? It's kind of dark, but we are going to fix that in a bit. First
we need to add some text to our button. Deselect it now.
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Click on the text tool and position it in the middle of your button. When the text box
opens use these settings:
Font Name: Ariel
Size: "10"
Bold
Selection: Checked
Antialias: Checked
Click the ok button.
DO NOT DESELECT!!
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Now we are going to give the text we just layed down a cutout. Use these settings:
Offset: V & H "2"
Opacity: "100"
Blur: "2"
Color: Black
Fill interior: UnChecked
Click the ok button. Deselect the text.
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Ok click on your magic wand. Set these options:
Match Mode: RGB
Tolerance: "1"
Feather: "0"
Click the white background and then go to selections - invert. This will put the
"marching ants" around your button.
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Now we are going to apply Greg's Facotory Output Filter.
Go to effects - plugins - gregs - colorize.
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Use these settings:
Red: "185"
Green: "160"
Blue: "100"
Amount: "255"
Click ok when you are done.
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If you did not download Greg's filter you can also achieve a similar look by going to
colors - colorize. Use these settings"
Hue: "36"
Saturation: "200"
Click ok when you are done.
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Our button has a nice gold color, but it's a little dull... we want a bright, shiny
button like polished brass. To achieve this, let's adjust the contrast a bit.
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Let's give our button some contrast now. Use these settings:
Brightness: "0"
Contrast: "30"
Click ok when you are done.
DO NOT DESELECT YET!!
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Now our button is bright, but metallic edges are sharp, not soft. Lets give some
definition to the edges of our button with yet another PSP filter. Go to effects - Edge - enhance.
DO NOT DESELECT!!
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Since our button is already selected we can crop it easily by going
to Image - Crop to Selection.
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And we are done. You now have a shiny brass button for your web pages or
whatever you are going to use them for!!
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