Shiny Button - or not?!

Hi All.

Here is a button I was drawing and playing with and not finished by any stretch of the imagination.

Then I thought:-

How would everyone else make it shiny? What would you add and change?
or
How would everyone else make it different, if not shiny?

Feel free to make any changes you like.

BTW: It was done using Named Colours so you can easily make it any colour you like.
The name of the named colour is 'thumb'. Please don't ask why?!

So, let's see yours.

How about a shining light?

Bill.

A shining light. Can I be honest and say that I didn't think of that!

And I love the background you've done. =D>

Now that you've started that, it makes me wonder what others are going to come up with?

Here's my shiny button.

:eek:

Here's another Light, this time animated.

The first one is truly BRIGHT John!
And an animated on as well?! :cool:

Then an alternative DARK one from Gary.
There's some sort an attraction, if you look at it for long enough.
So, be careful guys and gals.
It not just the stereograms that Gary uses to hypnotise us, it could be any drawing! ;))
Looks very good Gary.

Now, it makes me think if I should change my tact and go for a different look.
I've been playing with the usual 'window' reflections etc...

So far, we've had 'light', 'bright' and 'dark'

Well, I just had to try Bill's background.
Very good indeed Bill. A very good lesson, for me anyway.
I just never remember to look at all the different Transparency types.

Nice Buttion EVERYONE! Thanks for Sharing!

Very nice shiny button Rik =D>

My Version of a Shiny-Button... ;-)

A button for every occasion. Well done, guys.

One more just for the heck of it. :D


Well, maybe an additional one as well. ;))

What do you mean?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Soquili

One more just for the heck of it. :D

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That's two things I have learned in this thread.

Brilliant Bill. Just brilliant. =D>

Haven't managed to use your second idea yet Bill.
I thought I would see if I could use Gary's 'glow' though.
So, here's what I got up to.

Well done, Rik. Maybe one window highlight would suffice though?

OK.
As ordered; trying just one window highlight.

Yeah, this is cleaner. Great job Rich.

Rik that one is so shiney your finger may slide off before the button is pushed. ;)

Really great job on the button.

It looks so pristine, like it has never even had a fingerprint on it.

James

Hey guys, am a new user of Xara web designer, please could someone just point me into the direction of how you made these buttons? I am overly impressed at the buttons that you came up with Rik. How did you do it?

Welcome to Talkgraphics Frodo,
Rik and Soquili have provided their source files in the first and second posts of this thread (the *.xar files).
Just download both and check how they have built them.