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Glossy Button Navigation Menu

In this tutorial, I'll walk you through creating a glossy looking menu then using photoshop to generate the HTML code for the menu..

Create a new document, big enough to contain your navigation menu.

Start by selecting the 'rounded corner' shape tool. Set it's radius to about 15px.

Now use this to draw a round tube shape.

Now apply all these layer styles to this shape.
(Layer » Layer Style)

Drop Shadow

Inner Shadow

Inner Glow

Color Overlay

Stroke

Now use the shape tool again, and this time, draw a smaller white tube above the button. see image on left...

 

Now, set that layer's blending mode to "Overlay" and it's opacity to 30%

There, you have your button.

Now just duplicate this button and lay them out vertically to form a navigation menu.

Now select the "slice" tool.

Go to View on the menubar and make sure "snap" is checked. This will help your slices to snap to it's closes border, creating more accurate slices.

Now use the slice tool and slice button by button. each slice should contain 1 button.

Now that we have our slices, we can save it to HTML and ready to be used on our webpages.

Go to File » Save for Web.

For best image quality, use the settings you see on the left.

Then click Save.

In the Save dialog box where you select your location, there is a field call "Save as type", select "HTML and Images (*.html) "

and give your html file a name.

This would have generated a HTML page, an images folder, and inside the images folder are your buttons.

Now just copy the HTML code of the menu to your webpage and use it, DO NOT copy the header/body tags generated by photoshop.

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User Comments

Steve Saha Jul/07/2010 20:57Wow! Almost all the layer style properties you have applied in creating buttons. The buttons are truly looking awesome. Thanks for sharing this. Steve
prince May/26/2010 16:05nice !:D
Him May/19/2010 07:57terrible skip around with no explanation. all these comments must be from people who kiss up to you no doubt!!!!
ratna Mar/31/2010 22:55nice
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Anjali Sep/23/2009 15:42It's very difficult but nice
rikimaru Jun/27/09 15:12very difficult to a beginner like me...
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sprite Aug/9/08 00:26This tutorial may be a good one. But this is very difficult for beginners. I tried this, but I could not make the button.
kiran yeligeti Jun/9/08 14:17its good tutorials keepi tup
chuck norris Jan/4/08 01:16my teacher is the spawn of the devil/pure evil. but thanks for the tutorial.
dony know Dec/23/07 04:11Um did I miss something can you say what font for letters you used and how you made them blue.Also you can't just make a new doc and then go and do those steps as it says well on mine the back groud is locked so I have to make another layer and do the steps and had to do the same thing when doing that white part as well.
Dixit Milind Dec/21/07 22:28ONE OF THE BEST
webdeloper Nov/28/07 14:14wow so nice got crazy!!!! hehehehe congrats ver nice
andy Oct/19/07 15:24nice !
Ash Ketchup Sep/27/07 04:56I wanna be the very best. THE BEST THAT NO ONE EVER WAS YOU GOT TO CATCH THEM ALLL!!! PIKACHU. CHARMANDER. BULBASAUR. SQUIRTLE. MEWTWO.
husen Aug/13/07 02:55this is cool man Thanx 4 this tutorial
Faysal Aug/7/07 02:09my photoshop says that i dont have fonts that are used with ure psd files. where to find them
spikY Jul/29/07 06:19Nice one
sam Jul/12/07 06:23WELL DONE!
Saifuddin Jun/27/07 19:28no i look best i love porn
johnathan lee jun wei from singapore Jun/27/07 19:06i think i look better
Cayson Jun/27/07 14:52Thanks, I'm going to tweak this just a little, change some colors, make some rollovers and use it for my website xD The base is coming from you though, I am completely new to Photoshop and Illustrator, and this was as clear as glass to me! It has a sturdy footing/foundation though, very much unlike glass o.O 10.10
Dark Jun/5/07 04:53wooooooooooooow nice one
Yellowsix Jun/2/07 01:30@UGH!: This tutorial requires Photoshop CS2, maybe you have elements? Nice tutorial! I'm really going to use this. (I'll give you credit) Thanks

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