Tutorial: How to draw a Mac button

This tutorial will demonstrate how to draw a mac button

1. Fire up your photoshop and create a new board with the size 250×100 with transparent background.

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2. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool, change the Radius to 30px and draw a pill on the board.

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3. Go to the Layer Palette, right click on ‘background’ layer and duplicate a layer.

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4. At the Layer Palette, look for a font like icon, click it and select Add Inner Shadow and the Layer Style window will open, select the settings that you see on the screenshot.

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5. Select Inner Glow on the left and use settings that you see on the screenshot in the same window.

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6. Select Bevel and Emboss on the left and use settings that you see on the screenshot in the same window.

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7. select Contour on the left and use settings that you see on the screenshot on the same window and click ‘OK’.

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8. Now you will see something like this if you did not create your workspace with a transparent background at first.

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9. And if you work with a transparent background from the start you will get this in the end. P.S: you can remove the background with any removing technique to get this result if you forgot to remove the background initially.

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