Make a glass looking button. This is a similar style to the Windows Vista Task bar. Level: Intermediate Photoshop Version: CS2 (Can be done in Earlier versions up to Photoshop CS) How to: First create a blank photoshop document using these settings: Width: 4 inches, Height: 1 inch, DPI: 300.      Select the rounded rectangle tool as shown here: Draw a rounded rectangle in a similar fashion to this. I used a Corner Radius of .125 in. You can change the radius as you like. More radius makes the corner more rounded, less radius makes the corner sharper. Change the foreground color to white and draw another rounded rectangle as you see here. You can change the radius for this as well. To make a more glossy look, decrease the radius, to make a duller shine, increase the radius. You can make many different variations of glass buttons using this technique. There are many other techniques as well for creating glass buttons. This is one of them.      Next, change the opacity of the...

  Make Steel Looking text. Also learn how to make the brushed steel texture. Once you know this you can add your own modifications and create your own steel look. There are millions of ways of making the steel text look. This is one way. Level: Intermediate Photoshop Version: CS2 (Can be done in Earlier versions up to Photoshop 7.0) Definitions: DPI: Dots Per Inch. This means how many pixels there are per inch of space. Tutorial: First create a new image with a black background. Create it 5 Inches Wide by 1 1/2 Inches tall at 300 dpi, or a dpi you desire. Next, with your choice of font, create a white text saying whatever you would like to put there. I used Steel as the text and Franklin Gothic as the font. Some other good fonts for this are Bank Gothic and Copperplate Gothic. Press “Ctrl j” while selected on the text layer. This will make a copy of the layer. Next, rasterize the text layer by selecting it and going to [Layer -> Raterize -> Type ] Next click...