Quick Tip: How to Create an Eye Catching Upload Button in Adobe Illustrator

Quick Tip: How to Create an Eye Catching Upload Button in Adobe Illustrator

on Dec 22nd 2011 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Illustrator CS4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Length: 20:30 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This tutorial takes you step by step through the process of creating an upload web button. You will learn how to use just a few simple, yet effective, tools and techniques to create this eye-catching design.

 
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My name is Maciej Lenartowicz and I am a freelancer designer from Poland. I'm always trying to combine a spark of creativity with my love for design.  

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  • http://twitter.com/AJ4iQ AJ4iQ

    great explaining, and it’s all from the Zero

  • http://amirhameedportfolio.blogspot.com amir

    nice work awesome graphics

  • Sandy

    why when I try to switch the transparency at the black arrow to screen, it turns out to white and not blending with the arrow below it?
    nice tuts anyway.. thanks..

    • http://mlenartowicz.carbonmade.com/ Maciej Lenartowicz
      Author

      Sandy, you’re probably clicking the wrong arrow. Keep you Transparency palette visible when you do that, it gives you a little preview of what you have selected right now. Another thing is that you might be using ‘black’ which is not quite black – make sure to zero out all the RGB values and it should help.

      Thanks everyone for such a positive feedback!

  • http://none.com Curtis

    Nice and simple tutorial covering a good amount of ground in super short order (Layer styles, gradients, creating brushes, tranforming objects, text effects, and more)

    The best 2 parts of this tutorial is that

    1. It’s practical and a cohesive IDEA. A lot of tutorials are just tips an tricks and don’t really teach you anything besides a super specific hack.

    2. You actually explained what you were striving for before you did it. I hate when tutorails turn into simple
    ‘Follow the directions in order to put together this dresser’ type of things with no insight to WHY.

    Good tut overall.

  • Zlatko

    Excellent tutorial, comprehensive, thought out and basically chewed into bits for Illustrator newbies like myself.

    Keep it up.

  • http://www.crokis.com.mx Crokis

    Excellet tutorial.
    Thanks for sharing!

  • phluidzz

    very nice tutorial! Thanks a lot.

  • L

    Very nice, efect is amazing… I finished it myself and it looks just like in the video https://www.dropbox.com/s/oqqekt7b7cftf1c/uploadbuttonP9.png