Easy Buttons

Make your own scrap buttons

 

What you need....

PSP of course...

Superblade Pro...

Blade Pro Preset here (install in your environment and textures folder)

 

Let's get started....

Open new 200x200 transparent

Foreground colour to black...

Selection tool set to circle, draw a circle...then fill with black ....

Filters...Superblade pro....dhicygold with these settings...

Selections....select none....

New raster layer....

selection tool....circle....draw a tiny circle in the centre of the button ...fill with black...

selections...select none...move it to the right....

Layers....duplicate...

Drag the duplicate to the left...

Hide your button (raster1) layer....highlight one of the little button hole layers.....

Layers....merge visable...

Unhide your button layer....

You can leave it as is and merge visable and save it as a png or gif....

Or, if you want the button holes to be transparent....

Highlight your merged button holes....

With your magic wand click on one of the black holes....

Click delete....don't deselect yet!....while it's still selected....click on the bottom (raster1)layer...click delete...

Deselect.....

Do the same with the left black hole....deselect....layers...merge visable

Save as a gif or png to keep it transparent...

Voila!

Use different presets...colours....etc... :-)

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial....

 

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İMapie 25th May 2008