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INFOGRAPHIC SERIES - 3D BUTTON WITH HIGHLIGHTS

2/28/2016

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3D button with highlights, a nice "gleamie" highlight with the effect of a raised edge and a concave surface. Here is how to create it in Illustrator, and it is quite simple to do!
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Start with a circle, hold SHIFT to make it a perfect circle.
Apply a linear gradient to the shape
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Open the Gradient panel under the Window menu. Set the right color stop to a SOLID color, set the left color stop to the same color and set the opacity of the left color stop to 20%
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Duplicate the first circle, rotate it 180° and align it with the center of the original circle.

Edit the gradient so the color fades to white.
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Set the gradient of the 2nd circle to fade from the original blue to white at the other end and set the white at 60% opacity.

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Draw a large oval and rotate the oval at about a 30° angle. Fill the shape with white and position it over the shapes a bit off center.
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Set the white oval to 65% opacity. 

Duplicate the oval and make it smaller and place it over the upper edge of the first oval.


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​Select both ovals then use the pathfinder to Minus the Front object. 
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Copy the first circle and then choose Paste In Front. You want the original circle to be in front of everything. I added a red stroke just to see the shape, the stroke disappears when we use the shape as a clipping mask.

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Now the highlight is clipped to the original shape of the circle.
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Draw an arc using the Arc tool. Make it a white stroke.
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From the Stroke Panel, make the stroke 20 pts wide and apply round end caps on the line.
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Use the Width Shape Tool to select the end of the arc, then pull a bit to widen the end of the arc.

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Add an 8 pt white stroke to the inside circle. 
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Open the Appearance Panel from the Window Menu. Select the Stroke portion in the Appearance Panel.
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Go the Effect Menu and go to the lower section (Photoshop Effects area) and choose Blur>Gaussian Blur. Sect the blur to 10 pixels.
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Select the the arc. In the Appearance Panel choose the stroke. Go the Effect Menu and go to the lower section (Photoshop Effects area) and choose Blur>Gaussian Blur. Set the blur to 35 pixels. Set the  fill opacity of the stroke to be 90%.

Here is the final button. Looks 3D with a nice highlight and a "gleamie" arc cast on the edge.
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