Thanks for your reply. Flipping the button surely creates a good distinction between the up and down state. In this case, however, I'm trying to simulate a hardware button as close as possible. I played around with the ideas of brynn and applying the inner shadow effect. The attached picture shows h...

Thanks brynn for your ideas! By "stripes" I just mean that the finished button graphic must show the button in both states next to each other. So, if the button is 100px wide, the final graphic must be 200px wide. Another problem is that the button graphic must not contain any background, ...

Hello all, I have found many great button tutorials. My problem is: for a software interface I need to create button images with two stripes. One stripe shows the button in up-state, the other one shows it in the down-state. Does anyone have tips, tutorials or resources on how to create buttons in t...