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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.
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″.
Adobe dropped a bumper patch for its PDF Reader and Acrobat today to fix 15 documented security holes that expose Windows, Mac and UNIX users to malicious hacker attacks.
The update is rated “critical” because of the risk of remote code execution attacks via rigged PDF files.
According to an advisory from Adobe, the vulnerabilities affect Adobe Reader 9.3.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2.1 (and earlier versions) and Adobe Acrobat 8.2.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows and Macintosh.
These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
This patch batch also coincides with the release of a new automatic update for the Reader/Acrobat software. The default installation configuration runs automatic updates on a regular schedule and can be manually activated by choosing Help > Check for Updates.
Here are the raw details on the 15 documented vulnerabilities:
- A cross-site-scripting vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0190).
- A prefix protocol handler vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0191).
- A denial-of-service vulnerability; arbitrary code execution has not been demonstrated, but may be possible (CVE-2010-0192).
- Denial-of-service vulnerability; arbitrary code execution has not been demonstrated, but may be possible (CVE-2010-0193).
- A memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0194).
- This update resolves a font handling vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0195).
- A denial-of-service vulnerability; arbitrary code execution has not been demonstrated, but may be possible (CVE-2010-0196).
- A memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0197).
- A buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0198).
- A buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0199).
- A memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0201).
- A buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0202).
- A buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0203).
- A memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0204).
- A heap-based overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-1241).
Also see this important note from Adobe’s Brad Arkin on the new automatic updater that was released today.
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