Step 1:

Start a new document of size 400×400 pix. Keep the Background colour as white i.e. #FFFFFF. You will now get a new canvas with a white back ground.

Now select the Rectangle Tool (U), hold shift and draw a square like this. Colour of the square doesn’t matter because we will change it in next step by using a gradient over it. This is how my square looks like.

Now select the layer and go for blending options. In Blending option select Gradient Overlay In gradient overlay select the following settings. I have selected the #e8e8e8 as the left gradient colour and #f9f9f9 as the right gradient colour. Here are my Gradient Settings.

Now we are done with our gradient settings, it is time we add Stroke of 5 pixel to give a border to the face of the digger. Here is the my settings of stroke.

This is what I got after these settings. Our Diggers face is now ready, it is now time for us to design the rest of the body and his spade.

Step 2:

Now we will draw is body. To draw his body we will need two rectangles. Draw with these size, doesn’t matter how accurate it is just it should match the body proportion. Once we have drawn both the rectangles we will merge both the layers and them give them common blending settings. Now let us do it. I will first draw the hands and shoulder region by drawing a horizontal rectangle. This is what I got.

Both the horizontal and vertical rectangles are in there respective layers. Move them so they match the body i.e. move the vertical rectangle and horizontal rectangles as lower body and upper body respectively and arrange them. So it appears like a human body. This is what I did.

Now we will select both the layers and Razterise it so we can merge both the layers that way. Hold shift and click on both the layers on the Layer window, press right click you will get an option to Rasterize the layers.

Now select the top layer , right click and you will get an option to Merge Down. This will merge both the layers into a single layer. Now select the top layer, the head part of the layer press right click and select Copy Layer Style.

Now right click on the now merged layer and press Paste Layer Stlye. This will copy the exact Blending option of the head part and paste it across the whole body. This is what I got after doing this step.

We are 60% done. Now we need to draw legs and his Spade which he uses to Digg . Ok now select the pencil with pixel size 5 Pix and Color #969696. Hold shift and draw a line up. Holding shift will give you a straight line. This is what I got.

Step 3:

Now we have to make his digging tool. Select the Ellipse tool and Draw a vertical Ellipse and make the layer Rasterize so we can delete the unwanted portion.

after Razterzing the layer make the selection as shown here using the Rectangular Marquee Tool and press delete key on your keyboard. This will eliminate the bottom portion of the Ellipse and now perform the same copy paste of the Layer Effect as we did in step 2. I also used the Pencil of 10 Pixel and drew the handle part of the Digging tool. This is what I got.

Now use a rounded rectangle tool and draw the handle. Just draw a small rectange at the end of the spade extension. Apply the same Blending effects by copy – paste the layer Style as we did before. This is what I got. Now our digger is ready, it is now time to add some shadow as in the real digg logo.

Step 4:

Now draw an ellipse at the back of the diggers legs i.e. the layer below the body of the digger and fill it with gray colour. Like this

similarly add shadow to the digging tool too. If you want you can make the space of the digging tool with a harder or darker gradient. This is how our final digg logo looks like.

Today we will learn how to make a sleek looking button.

Step 1:

Start a new document of size 220×260. Fill it with a background colour as Black #000000.

Step 2:

Create a new layer and select the Rounded rectangle shape and draw a rectangle, like this

Select the layer and choose gradient overlay.

and select the following Gradient Colours.

This is what I got my result as

Step 3:

Now let us try to give some effect and text to the button to make it look more attractive. Select the Eleptical Marquee tool and draw a ellipse like this.

Create a new layer and fill it with white colour and reduce the opacity of the layer to 27% you should see something like this.

Now draw another ellipse using Eleptical Marquee tool like this and move the selection to the left this will cut the top white layer.

Now press the delete button and you are left with only the part in the right. Now ctrl+click on the button layer and press ctrl+shift+i to make the reverse selection and press the delete button. This is what you should get after doing it.

Now you can see our button is taking some shape. let us add some text and shine to make it look more sleek. You can choose a pixel font to make it look more futuristic. This is what I have got.

Now let us add some shine. Create a new layer above the text layer that we just created and draw a eleptical selection and use the single transparent gradient and deleted the extra part by inverse selection. You see this for the detailed instruction here . This is what I got

Now just duplicate the layer set and change the text to add more similar buttons. You can also experiment with different colour to give it different looks.

First let’s have a look at what we are going to create.

You can preselect the colour of your choice. Note this Rounded rectangle acts as a vector. So you can’t perform much actions on it. Here we have selected this rounded rectangle just for it’s shape.

Step 3:
Now press control+left click on the layer

make a new layer and delete this layer so u will have it like this

now fill the selection with the bucket i chose #1E63FF this colour.

Step 4:
Let’s add some inner glow to it. to apply it go to: Layer>layer style> Inner Glow and add these settings

Our image will look like this

Step 5:
Time to add the glow to it. Create another new layer and click on the Gradient Fill and select the followin gradient

now select the Eleptical Marquee tool and draw an elipse like this

after that select the rectangle marquee tool and press alt and draw a box just above the top portion of the drawn esclipse so that portion is deselected and we get something like this

now click on the gradient tool and fill it from top to bottom like this

now add some gradient at the bottom too and fill it with back and we are done. This is the final image that we get.

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