High Tech Buttons

1) New Document, Grab the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) using the shift key draw a round

circle fill it with blue here I used hex: #00AEEF

2) Select the round circle then create a new layer. Use the mouse right click on the empty

selection and choose stroke setting: ( 6px, inside and white as color) press ok then go to

Filter –> Blur –> Gaussian Blur setting 3.2 press ok. Change the layer effect to soft light

and adjust the opacity of the layer to 50%.

3) Go to the original circle layer and load its selection, then create a layer go to select

–> Modify –> Contract and contract it by 3 pixels. In the empty layer right click and

choose stroke and use these settings 4 px, inside, and white color with the selection still

loaded go to Select –> Modify –> Contract by 1 and gaussian blur it by 2.

4) Blur the selection twice and then
erease the lower bottom to give it
the fade effect

5) Duplicate the layer, Grab
the Gradient Tool (G)
Set the foreground color to white then change your gradient option to “foreground to

transparent” then
apply a vertical gradient starting
from the top of the selection
to the center of button check image.

6) Make a circle with a darker
blue. Check the image for the
blending and contour.

7) Make a small circle inside it,
then play around with it with
different blending till you get
something you like.