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June 30, 2011 03:15 pm GMT

Create Re-Usable Button Styles in Photoshop

Buttons are an extremely common design element thatare usedby almostevery website. Web buttons are critical for usability and navigation, and they can also be used to help direct the action of the user as you encourage them to add a product to a shopping cart, take a tour, get more information, or contact you.Creating new buttons while keeping the same style can be very simple by using Photoshop's layer styles. In this post we'll take a quick look at how you can create your own button layer styles to save yourself some time.You may have had situations in the past where you found yourself creating multiple buttons for a mockup and adding the same layer styles over and over again. Or you may have wanted to create a new button that matches the style of an existing button, but you can't remember the details of the layereffects that were used. Both of these situations could be made much easier if the button effects were saved as a layer style that could be re-used at any time.Layer styles are a preset in Photoshop, like brushes, patterns, and custom shapes. Layer styles can be saved as an .asl file and then can be loaded at any time, or distributed with others working on the project.

Creating Button Styles

Let's start by creating a basic button in Photoshop.Set the foreground color to #166ecc and the background color to #4495ee. Select the rounded rectangle tool with a radius of 10 pixels and draw a rectangle that is 250 pixels wide and 40 pixels high.Create Re-Usable Button Styles in Photoshop

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