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Retro button style with photoshop

See how to make a retro decorated glossy button with adobe photoshop in just a few easy steps.

First we will create the circle shape, to use later, so with the ellipse shape draw a circle on that stage, bring down its filling percent to 0 and give it a stroke style black 20 px as shown below.

In the layers panel make a copy of the ellipse layer, with the transform tool scale it down while holding down ctrl and shift (to scale along the center of the circle). Do it one more time. See what I did below.

Now select all three ellipse layers in the layers panel, right click and choose merge layers to have one shape.

Place this new shape somewhere on the stage, we will save it for later use.

Now with the rounded rectangle tool create a rectangle as shown below.

In the layers panel double click the new shape layer to get to the layers styles panel and give it settings as shown below.

Now bring the circle from before inside the rectangle as shown below, make some copies, scale them down to random sizes and place them all over the stage as shown below.

Select ALL the layers in the layers panel containing an ellipse shape, right click and merge them together.

Hold down ctrl and click the layer containing the rectangle button to load the shape selection.

Hold down shift + ctrl and hit i to invert the selection, then select the ellipse shape layer and hit delete to delete the outer part of the shapes.

Set the layers blending mode to soft light so it looks like mine below.

The last thing we need it to make a glossy effect.

Hold down ctrl and click the layer containing the rectangle button to load the shape selection.

Now with the elliptical selection tool drag the top part of the selection to intersect the selection as shown below

Make a gradient from white to transparent and drag it from top to bottom in the new selection.

With the wrap tool you can change the shape of the glossy layer if you want as I did.

edit -> transform -> wrap