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Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2025 3:01 am**

i think buttons look really cool but i have no idea how to make them,,,

this is a whole new world 4 me but here was my first attempt.............................

wow it actually looks a lot better here than it did in photoshop!

here's how i did it, any advice on how to make them better / other software to use would be appreciated

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2025 11:55 am**

Personally, I do them in photoshop, but I don't start with a 88x31 pixel canvas, I go with something bigger (but with a 88x31 aspect ratio), and then when I'm done I resize it down to 88x31 pixels.
For example, here's the initial HD version of my button:

Which I then resize to that:

This gives me more space to do things like gradients and see what I'm doing better.

Also most buttons have some kind of border like I did above, right and bottom are darker colors, and top and left are lighter colors, there is an option on photoshop which is called outline in english (or border) I think, which does it automatically for you, you can even add a gradient to it.

As for doing animated buttons, I never attempted to make one.

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2025 1:21 pm**

thank you for your advice! i love them!

will definitely making more

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:29 pm**

vakingvoda wrote:I remember seeing a tutorial on this website, but I can't find it.

I made these buttons in Inkscape:

It was at frutiger-aero.neocities.org/

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