This scrap will demonstrate how you can create
Glass Pill-Shaped buttons.
=> Goto
File -> New and set width as 250px and height as 150px, Resolution to 72px/inches and set the color mode to RGB and click OK.
=> Double-click the name in the Layers palette and rename the layer "Background".
=> Select the Paint Bucket Tool from the Toolbar and fill the layer in white color.
=> Create a New Layer and name the layer as "Button Shape".
=> To create the button shape, select the Elliptical Marquee tool from the Toolbar.
=> With the Elliptical Marquee tool selected click-and-drag from near the upper-left corner of the image. When you dragging pres SHIFT and drag.
=> And fill the selected area as black color using Paint Bucket Tool.
=> To create a black pill shape from the circle, hold the
CTRL and the
ALT keys and tap the right arrow key.
=> Create a New Layer and name the layer as "Glass".
=> Goto
Select -> Deselect to get rid of the selection.
=> Select the Gradient Tool.
=> With the Gradient Tool activated click the 'Click to edit the gradient'.
=> Creating the glass button requires three colors. The top and bottom will share the same color and the middle color will be a darker shade of the
color used for the top and bottom.
=> Select the colors and click OK and close the Gradient Editor.
=> Press CTRL and click on the Glass Layer. The area will be selected.
=> Click near the top of the selected area with the Gradient tool and drag.
=> Create New Layer and name it as "Highlight".
=> The selection should still be active, but it needs to be smaller, to shrink the selection choose
Select -> Modify -> Contract and enter 5 pixels for the value.
=> Add some Highlights. Select Gradient tool. This time remove the middle color slider by clicking-and-dragging it off the dialog box. With the middle slider gone, set the two ends to white by double-clicking each in turn.
=> With the colors set add another transparency slider at the top by clicking near the middle at the top of the gradient. Set the Opacity for this slider to 0 and set its Location to 70%. Click OK.
=> Click-and-drag from the top of the selected area to the bottom. Press CTRL+T and you can adjust the Layer.
=> Duplicate the Button Shape layer and name it as "Shadow". Press CTRL+T and use it to move the black shape down and to shrink it down a little.
=> Goto
Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to about 4.0 pixels. To make the shadow less opaque, turn down the Opacity setting in the Layers palette. I set the value to about 50%.
The Pill-shaped Glass Button is ready.
