Photoshop Button Tutorial: iPhone Inspiration

I love iPhone as it is my favorite gadget. Today i am going to share a Photoshop button tutorial inspired by iPhone. We will together design a beautiful iPhone like buttons. Let’s start,

Final Preview

This will be our learning at the end of this tutorial.

Step 1

Open Adobe Photoshop, and create a new Photoshop document. I am going to create a new document of 500 x 600 px with white background.

Step 2

Let’s fill our background layer with some dark color like #000000

Step 3

Take a first “New Guide” in view menu. Select Horizontal orientation, enter 180px and click ok. Similarly take a second “New Guide” in view menu. Select Horizontal orientation, enter 380px and click ok. You will be at,

Step 4

Take a new layer and name it “gradient_back”. Make a selection with available guides and fill it with any color. Do the following steps,

Apply this Blending Option

Drop Shadow

• Angle: 90
• Distance: 2
• Size: 1

Inner Glow

• Color: White (#FFFFFF)
• Size: 2

Gradient Overlay

• Style: Linear
• Color 1: #CCCCCC
• Color 2: #FFFFFF

Output will like this,

Step 5

Take a new layer and name it “shine”. Make a selection like this,

Do these simple steps,

• Fill “shine” layer with white (#FFFFFF) color
• Blend it with Soft Light
• Set Opacity to 75%

Output is like this,

Step 6

Create a new folder and name it “iPhone Button”,

• Select Rounded Rectangle Tool
• Set the Radius 5px
• Draw a new layer in iPhone Button folder like that, I am going to name it “button_back”

Step 7

Duplicate the “button_back” layer, name it “button_shine” and do as follows,

• Right Click button_shine and click “Rasterize Layer” in the menu.
• Ctrl+Click to make the selection of button_shine layer
• Select Rectangle Marquee Tool
• Select Intersect with Selection

By the above selected settings, you will be able to draw following selection very easily,

Now do the following steps,

• Fill the “button_shine” layer with white (#FFFFFF) color
• Make the Opacity 20%

You will have the following effect.

Step 8

Label the button with white color, I am using,

• Arial Font Style
• Regular
• 18 pt
• Smooth

Step 9

Apply This Blending Option

Stroke

• Size: 1px
• Color: Black (#000000)

Step 10

Let’s Duplicate “Button” folder and make two more buttons,

I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial. Don’t forget to write your valuable comments.