Brandon's Photoshop Action Set

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Brandon's Photoshop Action Set
Actions created by Brandon Batie (subscriber contributor) © All rights reserved.
Version 1.0 Release Date: 04/26/2004

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When you click the Play button to start the action, the following popup will appear:

As it instructs, create a 150x150 image with a transparent background and use the Elliptical marquee tool to draw an circle (hold Shift and Alt button while selecting), or draw an ellipse. Similar to as shown in the following image:


6. Click the Play button again to continue the execution of the action. The following popup will appear:


As it instructs, select a light foreground color and a darker background of the same color. In this How-To we will use the following colors:

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Click the Play button again, to continue with the ‘Gradient’ step in the action. Several steps will be executed automatically and than another popup will appear:

Click the CONTINUE button and select a color for the shadow, preferably the same color again but a bit darker (in our example dark green).

After you click OK, the action will continue processing.
8. The following popup will appear:


Add some text to the button and click play again to continue the action.
9. The final pop up will appear next:


As it instructs, flatten the image, and resize it to your convenience. Use a Sharpen filter for optimal results. Before you flatten the image, you can change most of the characteristics of the button by changing the layer properties and effects.
10. Eventually you should end up with a button like this:

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