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Stock image sites are the latest way to get high quality and professional imagery cheap (depending on subscription terms). When signing up with stock image sites you should read through the terms and conditions and contact the vendor regarding anything you are unsure of. Even though your are using the stock image you are potentially only leasing it from them.

Where can I find good stock image sites?

Obviously using a search engine is the most operative choice but I also recommend cross referencing with digital photography magazines as well these will be a good source for finding stock image sites where people submit there own photos to.

Printing media from stock image sites.

When using photos from stock image sites make sure you read the terms and conditions as you may find you may or may not be able to use it for printing purposes or in fact you may even have a limited amount of times you can print the artwork.

In this Photoshop button tutorial you will learn simple ways of creating glass buttons in Photoshop. A lot of website and graphic designers spend hours, days and even weeks trying to create glass buttons. Unfortunately many have tried and failed. I’m not saying this is going to be the world’s best glass button or a perfect glass button but it will be visually good enough to do the job.

Lets make Glass Buttons!

When creating glass buttons you must first create a flat coloured object as the base graphic. Start by making a circle using the Photoshop marquee tool and fill using the paint bucket.

Select, Modify and Contract

After you have done this go to Select whilst highlighting the shape with the marquee. Go down the menu to “Modify” and you want to “Select” contract. This will bring up a pop-up box asking you how many pixels you want to contract by. For this I chose 6 pixels because of the size I have designed it at.