Just with a few styles, make this plastic looking button"

A simple, elegant, glass button that looks as if it is glowing.

Learn how to create a metallic navigation bar

Create a unique and professional looking button for your site or forum with just a simple shape or text, a brush and some blending options.

I'll tell about creating glassy effects in raster... Of course, will take Photoshop as a sample software.The principle of every glassy effect lies in lighting of an object. A sourse of light gives a highlighted area and shadowed area to almost everything in this world, especially when object's material is glass or plastic. I know sounds stupidly, but it's all the theory you should know :) All the following are the methods to bring this theory to your digital 2D creations.

Create your own simple icons with Photoshop.

Micro buttons are a popular addition to many websites nowadays, and are very useful for sprucing up search engines, navigation systems, etc. Thankfully for us, they are also simplicity itself to create, and can be easily customized to individual requirements. Here's how you make your own:

Pill buttons are, of course, a staple diet of the amateur interface designer. This is not a coincidence - they are simple to create, look good, and are supremely reusable. Like many things, however, they can be improved greatly using a little Photoshop wizardry. The aim of this tutorial is to illustrate a technique for making glassy pill buttons using nothing but layer effects. For the sake of those interested in the theory, I've also spent a little time explaining the different settings, and how their alteration will affect the final look of the effect.

In this Photoshop tutorial we will teach you how to create a plastic navigation bar for your website.

Create gradient navigational buttons with individual link shapes.