Paint Shop Pro Tutorials [ Interface Tutorial

Embossed Button

Part I. Web Buttons Using Gaussian Blur
Requirements: Paint Shop Pro 5.0 or higher


	1 Start by making a 150x150 pixels, 16 Million colors and white background image. Set foreground color to any color you wish, I am going to use dark red on this example (R=128 G=0 B=0). This will be the color of your button. Set background color to black.
	2 Draw a rounded selection (as shown in the image) of any size. Selection Type = Circle Feather = 0 Antialias = checked
	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
	4 Save the current selection to Alpha Channel (Selections>Save to Alpha Channel) and name your selection Outer Contract your selection by 5 (Selections>Modify>Contract) Pixels = 5. Save the current selection to Alpha Channel (Selections>Save to Alpha Channel) and name your selection Inner Add a new layer (Layers>New Raster Layer) Set your foreground color to white and apply a solid color fill at your current selection (Inner).
Image after drawing a semi-ellipse selection	5 Deselect the inner selection by pressing [CTRL+D] Draw a semi-ellipse selection off the center (see example) then press the [Delete] key Selection type = Ellipse Antialias = checked (The X spot indicates where the light source will be coming from) Image after pressing the [Delete] key
	6 Load the outer selection (Selections>Load from Alpha Channel) Apply the Gaussian Blur filter (Image>Blur>Gaussian Blur) Radius = 3
	7 Next step is the add some shadow. Load the inner selection (Selections>Load from Alpha Channel) Add a new layer (Layers>New Raster Layer) Set your foreground color to black and fill the inner selection with black color.
Image after drawing a semi-ellipse selection	8 Deselect the inner selection by pressing [CTRL+D] Draw a semi-ellipse selection off the center (see example) then press the [Delete] key Selection type = Ellipse Antialias = checked Image after deleting the current selection leaving a shade as shown in the example.
	9 Again, load the outer selection (Selections>Load from Alpha Channel) and apply the Gaussian Blur filter (Image>Blur>Gaussian Blur) Radius = 3
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