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Creating Plastic Buttons can be done fairly easy in Photoshop. In a few easy steps you can create some nice looking Plastic Buttons. These buttons are used a lot on websites. If you are a beginner, don't worry. I will write the first part of this tutorial for beginners and the second part for the Advance users. In this tutorial I will show you how to create the Plastic Buttons in Photoshop. So let's begin.

How to Create Plastic Buttons in Photoshop for Beginners

Open your Photoshop program and let it load. Now you will need to create a new canvas. Go to the top of your Photoshop window and click File > New to create a new canvas. Create your canvas about 300 pixels by 300 pixels. You can crop your button when you are finished. Set your background to white and then click OK.

Now you will need to draw your button. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool from your toolbar and draw a rectangle on the canvas. You can make what ever size button you want.

Next you will need to Rasterize your layer. Right click on the Shape Layer in the Layers Panel and click Rasterize Layer from the pop up menu. If you do not see your Layers Panel then press F7 on your keyboard.

Right click again on that same layer and select Blending Options from the pop up menu. The Blending Options dialog box will pop up. You will see many options on the left hand side of that box. Below I will tell you which ones to click on and what Values to enter in the fields. Make sure that you click on the word and not just check the box. If you just check the box then you won't see the options for that effect.

Drop Shadow

Blend Mode - Multiply
Color - # 8d8d8d
Opacity - 50%
Angle - 120
Distance - 5
Spread - 0
Size - 5
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Noise - 0

Inner Shadow

Blend Mode - Multiply
Color - # cbcbc9
Opacity - 65%
Angle - 150
Distance - 1
Choke - 0
Size - 5
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Uncheck
Noise - 0

Inner Glow

Blend Mode - Screen
Opacity - 100%
Noise - 0
Color - Black
Technique - Softer
Source - Edge
Choke - 0
Size - 100
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Range -50%
Jitter -0

Bevel and Emboss

Style - Inner Bevel
Technique - Smooth
Depth - 100%
Direction - Up
Size - 6
Soften - 16
Angle - 164
Use Global Light - Checked
Attitude - 58
Gloss Contour - Half Round
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Highlight Mode - Screen
Color - White
Opacity - 81%
Shadow Mode - Multiply
Color - Black
Opacity - 55%

Gradient Overlay

Blend Mode - Normal
Opacity - 100%
Gradient - # 98def5 > # d9f0f8 > # 9adff0 ( Please see image two if you do not understand this part.)
Reverse - Unchecked
Style - Linear
Align with Layer - Checked
Angle - 90
Scale - 93

Stroke

Size - 1
Position - Outside
Blend Mode - Normal
Opacity - 100%
Fill Type - Color
Color - # d0d3d4

Now click OK on the Blending Options Panel. Now your button should look like mine. You can add text to your button by selecting the type tool and typing on your button. If you have any problems with this tutorial, please feel free to contact me using the contact button at the top of this page.

How to Create Plastic Buttons in Photoshop for the Advance

Create a new canvas. Set your background to white. Next you will need to draw your button using your Rounded Rectangle Tool. Rasterize your Shape Layer. Right click your shape layer and open the blending options panel and enter the following.

Drop Shadow

Blend Mode - Multiply
Color - # 8d8d8d
Opacity - 50%
Angle - 120
Distance - 5
Spread - 0
Size - 5
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Noise - 0

Inner Shadow

Blend Mode - Multiply
Color - # cbcbc9
Opacity - 65%
Angle - 150
Distance - 1
Choke - 0
Size - 5
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Uncheck
Noise - 0

Inner Glow

Blend Mode - Screen
Opacity - 100%
Noise - 0
Color - Black
Technique - Softer
Source - Edge
Choke - 0
Size - 100
Contour - Linear
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Range -50%
Jitter -0

Bevel and Emboss

Style - Inner Bevel
Technique - Smooth
Depth - 100%
Direction - Up
Size - 6
Soften - 16
Angle - 164
Use Global Light - Checked
Attitude - 58
Gloss Contour - Half Round
Anti-aliased - Unchecked
Highlight Mode - Screen
Color - White
Opacity - 81%
Shadow Mode - Multiply
Color - Black
Opacity - 55%

Gradient Overlay

Blend Mode - Normal
Opacity - 100%
Gradient - # 98def5 > # d9f0f8 > # 9adff0 ( Please see image two if you do not understand this part.)
Reverse - Unchecked
Style - Linear
Align with Layer - Checked
Angle - 90
Scale - 93

Stroke

Size - 1
Position - Outside
Blend Mode - Normal
Opacity - 100%
Fill Type - Color
Color - # d0d3d4

Now click OK on the Blending Options Panel. If you have any problems with this Photoshop tutorial, please feel free to contact me using the contact button at the top of this page.

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A Security Advisory has been posted in regards to the upcoming Adobe Reader and Acrobat updates scheduled for April 13, 2010. The updates will address critical security issues in the products. This quarterly security update will be made available for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX.

With this quarterly update, we are enabling the new updater first shipped in a passive state with the October quarterly security update. For more information, please refer to the Adobe Reader blog.

We will continue to provide updates on the upcoming release via the Security Advisory section of the Adobe web site as well as the Adobe PSIRT blog.

This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties and confers no rights.

In a future post, I'll focus on how to embed simulations in Adobe FrameMaker during the authoring process in order to avoid any post-processing work, but for now, my focus is on customizing the poster image for an embedded Flash movie directly in Acrobat 9.

Embedding Flash content in Acrobat 9 is quite easy, you use the Flash tool from the Tasks toolbar, double-click where you want to insert the SWF, Browse for it and click OK. That's it.

However, the purpose of the video below is to illustrate how to use one of the slides in Captivate to create a poster image for the embedded simulation, in order to make it obvious to the end user that this is a video simulation and not a simple, static screen shot.

If you are embedding Adobe Captivate simulations in your PDF document, I'd love to check it out. If you are able to share, please send me a tweet @rjacquez.

Click the image below to launch for the video in a new window.

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Digital Cameras have really changed the way people record and share their photographs. Today, we'll talk about how to make pictures from your digital camera web or email ready using Adobe Photoshop.We'll crop an image, resize it, and save it in a format optimized for the web and email.

An image from a camera can be quite large, however, making it less than ideal to email or post to a web site. For example, the picture I used in this tutorial is 792 kilobyte's, or about 8/10th of a megabyte, and takes up 2288 x 1712 pixels. With an average computer screen displaying only 1024 x 768, someone opening this image as-is would have to scroll to see the whole image.

For this tutorial,. I'm using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 running on a Mac with OS 10. If you have another version of Photoshop or run a system with windows, don't worry…the basics will be pretty much the same, so this should still be a useful tutorial for you.

Now, let's get started. First, open the file in Photoshop.

First, we'll crop the image to frame it more effectively. In this image, I want to cut out as much of extraneous items in the image, but keep the main subject.

To do this, select what is called the “rectangular marquee tool”, which is the upper left of the tool palette, and looks like a rectangle with a dotted border.

Now, click and hold the mouse button down and select the area of the photograph you'd like to keep. When you release the mouse button, a rectangle with dotted lines will appear around your selection.

Next, to go the “image” menu and select “crop”. The image is reduced to just your selection.

Now, we'll resize the image to make it easier to email or display in a web page. Go to the “image” menu again and select “image size”. Make sure that “constrain proportions” is checked, as this will maintain the ratio of width and height in your image as you resize it.

Look at the numbers in the height and width boxes in the window. Change the larger of the two to a much smaller number, such as 600 pixels. Notice that the other number automatically changes because we checked off “constrain proportions”.

The image now looks much smaller on the screen. You'll notice that the image is being displayed at only one third it's actual size. To show the image at it's true size, double click on the “Zoom Tool” in the lower right of the tool palette, which looks like a magnifying glass.

Next, we'll save the image in a format that is ideal for posting to the web or emailing.

In the “File” menu, select “Save for Web”. The “save for web” window appears. Under the settings to the right of your image, select JPEG and maximum. Notice at the bottom of the window that it shows you the type of image you selected, the file size of the new image, and approximately how long it would take to download the image on a 28.8 modem. Click the “Save” button, name your image, and click save again.

You now have an image that is cropped to look better, and is ready to email or post to the web at about 10% of the original file size.

In a future post, I'll focus on how to embed simulations in Adobe FrameMaker during the authoring process in order to avoid any post-processing work, but for now, my focus is on customizing the poster image for an embedded Flash movie directly in Acrobat 9.

Embedding Flash content in Acrobat 9 is quite easy, you use the Flash tool from the Tasks toolbar, double-click where you want to insert the SWF, Browse for it and click OK. That's it.

However, the purpose of the video below is to illustrate how to use one of the slides in Captivate to create a poster image for the embedded simulation, in order to make it obvious to the end user that this is a video simulation and not a simple, static screen shot.

If you are embedding Adobe Captivate simulations in your PDF document, I'd love to check it out. If you are able to share, please send me a tweet @rjacquez.

Click the image below to launch for the video in a new window.

Recently, Didier Stevens, a well-known security researcher, demonstrated a social engineering attack, which relies on the “/launch” functionality as described in the PDF specification (ISO PDF 32000-1:2008) under section 12.6.4.5. This is a good example of powerful functionality relied upon by some users that also carries potential risks when used incorrectly by others. The warning message provided in Adobe Reader and Acrobat includes strong wording advising users to only open and execute the file if it comes from a trusted source. Furthermore, the default option within the dialog is to not execute.

Adobe takes the security of our products and technologies very seriously; we are therefore always listening to and evaluating ways to allow end-users and administrators to better manage and configure features like this one to mitigate potential associated risks. We are currently researching the best approach for this functionality in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which we could conceivably make available during one of the regularly scheduled quarterly product updates.

As we investigate this, users can use the following method to further mitigate against this risk. For consumers, open up the Preferences panel and click on “Trust Manager” in the left pane. Clear the check box “Allow opening of non-PDF file attachments with external applications” as shown below.

For administrators who wish to accomplish this with a registry setting on Windows, add the following DWORD value to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Originals

Name: bAllowOpenFile
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0

Furthermore, an administrator can grey out the preference to keep end-users from turning this capability on, by adding the following DWORD value to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Originals

Name: bSecureOpenFile
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 1

Note: These samples assumed you were adding registry settings to Adobe Reader 9. For Adobe Acrobat, you would replace “Acrobat Reader” with “Adobe Acrobat”, and for a different version, you would substitute its value for “9.0″.

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