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Can you give me some hints for recreate these two buttons?

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Which effects are applied? Thanks!

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What steps have you taken already? The generic answer is "play around with gradients" but that may not help you directly. – Farray Aug 30 '11 at 2:16

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@Jack this actually is a bevel

To use:

drop shadow, about 1 or 2px (opacity low)

gradient (light green to slighter darker green)

Bevel (opacity low, size 1 px)

Note: If you invert it (dark inner shadow, and reverse the gradient and bevel and you will have your pressed/mouse-over button.

Will provide screenshot and download later

EDIT This is what i made quickly:

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You can download the source here to learn form it. Open the layer styles and see what i did. To change the color of the button simply edit the gradients

Source psd : http://www.luukratief.com/psd-files/subtle-buttons-normal-hover-click/

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+1 thanks for correcting me :) – Jack Aug 31 '11 at 6:27
No problem. Most of the effect is the gradient though – Luuk Aug 31 '11 at 7:01
i was not sure with the bevel thing when i did it by myself than i come to know 1px bevel did the whole thing.. – Jack Aug 31 '11 at 7:06
Thats the fun part of this community. Every day we learn :) – Luuk Aug 31 '11 at 7:08
ya all i want to learn more..thanks for this too – Jack Aug 31 '11 at 7:15
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I would do that by frist, cerating a the shape with the rounded rectangle tool. the radius pixels must be about 3 px. . Then with blending options, select a overlay.. witht he tones you want. if you also want, u can use a gradient overlay, use 3 tones... the middle one should be the lightest one and the gradient should be solid.

Also, it looks like it has a drop shadow. you can add that as well, but set the opacity to less than 30.

The small lines on the edges, you get that by playing with the bevel and emboss levels, probably you want low pixels here.

And lastly, look for a similar font.

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Really Nice explanation, Screenshot could have done more better – Jack Aug 30 '11 at 4:51
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Bevel/emboss, at the very least.

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Do you know how to set that Inner Shadow? In the image it's very defined. – Fred Collins Aug 30 '11 at 2:11
Only bevel emboss :o – Jack Aug 30 '11 at 4:25

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