Designing Web 2.0 Badges Turorial with photoshop

In this tutorial we will learn how to design  Web 2.0 badges in Photoshop.

A) Open New Document
Create new document in Photoshop using a 500 x 500 document. Then fill your canvas with #05647C  this color

B) Make Polygon Shape
Now make the shape of the badge - in your Photoshop Tools Menu, find and get the Polygon Tool. Please confirm that your settings are set up correctly like below picture.

Click the drop down arrow that is highlighted in the above image and use these settings:

Now you are ready to draw shape. Create a new layer (layer > new > layer) then drag your shape onto the canvas. my shape color is #740202 but you can use different color as well.

Now your shape is ready and should look like this:

C) Blending Effects
Now in your layers palette, right-click your badge layer and go into the Blending Options. Click and apply the following layer styles:

1. Outer Glow
   
2. Inner Glow
   
3. Gradient Overlay
   

Now you shape looks like this:

D) Bordering and Glow Effect
Create a new layer then select the badge pixels by holding ctrl and clicking the layer thumbnail

Contract your selection by about 2 pixels by going to select > modify > contract .

Again in that new layer, fill your selection with white (#ffffff), press the down and right arrow keys once each, then press the delete key on your keyboard then you should be left with something like this:

Next, change the layer mode for this layer to Overlay and lower the opacity by around 70%.

Then make a new layer and make the selection around the badge layer again and contract the selection again by 2 pixels. and on new layer make a White to Transparent gradient from the top left to the middle area like this:

Then using Polygonal Lasso tools delete the selection like this:

Now change the layer mode for this layer to either Soft Light or Overlay, and lower the opacity to around 30-70%. Now you should have shape like this:

Now add the word “Web 2.0″ onto badge. So this is your Web 2.0 Badge.

E) View Video Tutorial.

Video of Designing Web 2.0 Badges
Download the PSD file from this tutorial from here: Designing Web 2.0 Badges PSD

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