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Tip: Buttons are one of the most used graphical elements on many websites. Most visitors expect something to happen when they press a button. Therefore they are more effective when being used in conjunction with a hyperlink.
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Paint
Shop Pro Tutorials
How
to make Embossed Buttons
Create cool
embossed buttons for your website with our easy to follow PSP button tutorial.
This
tutorial is graphic intense so we have split it into 2 parts to facilitate page
loading times. Please follow the link after step 10 to complete the tutorial.
Step
1
Open a new image.
150x150 pixels
16 Million colors
White Background
Set your
foreground color to any color you wish.
For this Tutorial we will use
Dark Blue #000080 Set
background color to black
Step
2
Draw a rounded selection. 
of any size.
Selection
Type = Circle
Feather = 0
Antialias = checked
Step
3
Fill the the area of the circle  with
your foreground color.
Fill
Style = Solid Color Match Mode = None
Tolerance = 100
Opacity = 100
Sample Merge = NOT checked Step
4 Save
the current selection to Alpha Channel
Selections>Save to Alpha Channel>OK
When prompted, name your selection Outer
Step
5
Contract your selection by 5
Selections>Modify>Contract
Pixels
= 5.
Step
6
Save the current selection to Alpha Channel
Selections>Save to Alpha Channel
Name this second selection Inner
Step
7
Add a new Layer
Layers>New Raster Layer>OK
Set the Color Palette Foreground color to White.
Flood Fill
the current selection.
Step
8
Deselect
the inner selection by pressing [CTRL+D]
Click on
the Selection Tool
and draw an off center, semi-ellipse selection.
Selection type = Ellipse
Feather = 0
Antialias = checked
Step 9
When done, press the Delete key. You should now have an image similar
to this. The white section is where the "light source" will
come from in the 3D effect.
Step10
Load the Outer
selection (Selections>Load from Alpha Channel)
Apply
the Gaussian Blur filter.
(Image>Blur>Gaussian Blur) Radius
= 3 Click
here for part 2
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