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Today’s freebie is a set of glossy, shiny and classic buttons. Actually I personally like the style, sharpness so i decided to design and share the Classic Buttons Set (PSD).

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Laurentiu Toma - Grade

About yourself:

I live in Romania, a beautiful country with many artistic and cultural values … but I do not think that the design I do has anything to do with the place where I live. I believe that the influence of the Internet is bigger than anything … unfortunately.

Your Hobbies:

Movies, music, fine arts.

About your Experience with design:

I worked about 10 years in design area.

What kind of Design Services you provide?

logo design.

How would you describe your style?

I’m not sure if i have a style…in fact i don’t want to have a style, i just try to invent things and to be better than yesterday

How did you get your first job in design and what exactly was it?

Somewhat randomly. Years ago, after I graduated from the Faculty of Arts (Painting specialization), I worked as a drawing teacher for a while. One day, a friend contacted me and told me about a job at an IT company, I was interviewed and subsequently I got hired at that company as a graphic designer(even now I do not know why). I did not know much about computers, design … but slowly I learned and I achieved performances through hard work. I still like to think that I’m more an artist than a designer. Design is a challenge for me, a way to live, a method through which I can test my skills and patience … and why not, a source of financial earning.

What plans do you have for the future?

I don’t have, I’m in God hands.

Your expert areas:

Art Institute of Timisoara graduated, where I did five years of painting which is still my passion and I can declare myself more of an expert than in the Design area. I consider Design as being a rank in Art and this would make it easier for me to have realistic opinions about a good done job or a poorly done one. This would not be possible without a long term of studies.

Your tools of work:

Illustrator, corel, photoshop …any kind of graphic tools.

Who or what is your biggest inspiration for graphic design?

Hmm, hard to say. I think my inspiration comes from everywhere. First I try to inspire from myself, then I look around to see what other designers are working. Usually I have an eye to the professional designers, because I know that from them I learn the most…I am not interested in the weak designers at all. Of course it is also about imagination, talent, experience … all these together help in the creative process. I do not think the idea and the technique is everything, I think a balance between the two is the way to perfection.
For me it’s simply because I cannot say I have a rule, I try to work as best and hard I can and if I manage to be happy with myself, then I am on the right road.

What advice would you give to other designers?

Professionalism, ambition, perseverance
Success does not necessarily mean making money or winning contests , but to be respected
You earn respect not by how much money you make and how many contests you win, but by what you are and what you can do.
Being appreciated and respected is the biggest success.

What do you think about tutorialsbucket.com?

I think it is Great, a nice opportunity to learn!

Work:

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I was inspired by may other UI designer and most importantly Apple UI. So i decided to design something and share with all of you freely. This is the first part of Sharp & Sleek UI Kit. So you can download it and are free to use and modify.
Click the below button for free downloading.

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Today I am here with new Freebie, its a button (Add to Cart Button). I personally was working on projests where I saw this buttom which was looking very messed up so I decided to design and share my work with you guys and I hope you like this and give me some refreshing comments as well.

Add to Cart Button - Free Web Element

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Step by step – Photoshop tutorial

Step 1 – Open Photoshop and create “New Document”

Let’s start with creating a new document in abobe photoshop, so goto File > New … (Ctrl + N) and a popup box will appear and ask for document size and further details. By the way! I am going to use (1024px  x 768px) size document.

Step 2 – Create Guide lines

Now go to View -> New Guides… and when you click New Guides… a popup box appear named as;
“New Guide“. Select Orientation -> Horizantal, Position -> 50% and Click OK
Now again repreat above step but now this time select Orientation -> Vertical.

In this step we use guides to know the center point of the document, because we draw our shapes in the center of the document.

Step 3 – Draw Shape

Now a draw a circle with the help of “Ellipse Tool” and sellect the following option from the tool bar.

Step 4 – Blending Options

Now it is a time to play with blending option to get desired results. Goto the Layers Panel and click “Blending Option” and you will see a popup box with lot of more options and then we select “Gradient Overlay”

After selecting “Gradient Overlay” you will notice a popup box appear, so the task is simple please follow the following image for accurate results.

• Blend Mode : Normal
• Opacity : 100%
• Gradient : Please check below this image for gradient color setting
• Style : Angle and tick (check) Align with Layer
• Angle : -120 Degree
• Scale : 100%

Gradient Settings:

1. Color : #aaaaaa, Location: 0%
2. Color : #f7f7f7, Location: 9%
3. Color : #c8c8c8, Location: 14%
4. Color : #f7f7f7, Location: 31%
5. Color : #c5c5c5, Location: 51%
6. Color : #ffffff, Location: 57%
7. Color : #bbbbbb, Location: 63%
8. Color : #f2f2f2, Location: 75%
9. Color : #aaaaaa, Location: 100%

Now Select “Bevel and Emboss” and follow the following settings;

• Style : Inner Bevel
• Technique : Smooth
• Depth : 100%
• Direction : up
• Size : 1px
• Soften : 0px
• Angle : 111 degree & 42 degree
• Highligh Mode : #ffffff and Opacity : 100%
• Shadow Mode : #000000 and Opacity : 32%

Inner Glow Settings:

• Blend Mode : Normal
• Opacity : 100%
• Noise : 0%
• White color #ffffff
• Technique : Softer
• Source : Edge
• Choke : 0%
• Size : 3px
• Range : 50%
• Jitter : 0%

Drop Shadow Settings:

• Bend Mode : Multiply -> black color
• Opacity : 40%
• Angle : 70%
• Distance : 8px
• Spread : 0%
• Size : 20px
• Noise : 0%

And finaly click OK button

After playing with blending you are able to see the following results on your screen, but its not enough we have to give this final touch.

Now hold the Ctrl key from you keyboard and click over the circle shape from Layers and you will see that the circle from artboard is already select, now create new layer ( Shift + Ctrl +N ) and Fill (G) with #cccccc. And select Color Burn, Opacity : 80% and Fill 30%.

And goto Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise and you will see a popup box “Add Noise” and set the Amount : 400%, Distribution : Uniform and tick the Monochromatic.

Next Step is Filer -> Blur -> Radial Blur. Then Radial Blur, Amount : 50, Blur Method : Spin and Quality : Best.

Step 5 – Draw node

Let’s draw node over the circle shape with the help of “Rounded Rectangle Tool” same as following image.

After the above step let’s add some blending style for final results:
Select Drop Shadow:

• Blend Mode : Normal and color white
• Opacity : 100%
• Angle : 120 degree
• Distance : 1px
• Spread : 0px
• Size : 0px

Inner Shadow:

• Blend Mode : Multiply with Black color
• Opacity : 73%
• Angle : -120 degree
• Distance : 2px
• Choke : 0%
• Size : 7px

Add some cool background and if you want to add more things in your drawing you can. Please take a look at my final results bellow;

I hope you like this photoshop tutorial and give me you comments.

Download Amplifier Knob Tutorial PSD file.

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Here another freebie, Download Memebers Login box free. This is shiny, sharp and bright members login box. You can download the (.psd) from the following link and use it freely without any licence restriction.

Free download Member’s Login Box

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