Style Requirements for Web Buttons

Web buttons are images that allow users to navigate a website. Web buttons should complement the look and feel of your website, as well as allow visitors to navigate through your site easily.

Unfortunately, many websites often do one of the following:

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  Use either flat or boring web buttons.
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  Use graphical buttons that don’t match the style of the rest of the website.
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  Don’t use web buttons at all, often making the website difficult to navigate.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn to make rounded web buttons, all the while learning about Photoshop’s Selection tools.

In this tutorial:

1. Creating Shapes with Selections
2. Style Requirements for Web Buttons
3. Creating a Web Button
4. Adding Using Preset Styles with Your  Web Button
5. Defining a Web Button (for a Rollover Effect)