How to Create an Animated Glowing Button in Photoshop

[@DrummerFDO]

Howard, you probably don't realize this. With your tutorials, you are enabling us to be more creative, work on our designs to make our projects look more atractive and actually succeeding at it. Thank you so much. I wish you the best in everything as you have helped me greatly.

[@00hmath00]

Howard... i subscribed to you about a year and a half ago and i never regretted it. Your tutorials are BY FAR the BEST tutorials i have ever seen. By watching one of your tutorials i learn skills in Photoshop that i can use in other projects as well (projects not related to the tutorial itself). You are an amazing teacher and i GREATLY appreciate these tutorials. Coming from a big fan from St. Lucia (in the Caribbean)!!! Thanks Again Man!!

[@keokichang]

Have not found else anyone that does such thoroughly well presented tutorials! Thank you so much!

[@HowardPinsky]

Thank you, George. Glad you're enjoying the content.

[@mopc4388]

Very good explanation, appreciate your detailed step-by-step post all the way to the end including saving. Well done!

[@Cypressious]

Surely, one of your beat tutorials.

[@MaKsPuA]

You are a genius sir !! I just watched 5 tutorials in a row, very interesting !

[@nettstar1]

Well done. Nice button.

[@Montreal1920x1080]

Another excellent tutorial Mr.Pinsky, thanks!

[@nivrot]

Perfect tutorial. Nice speed, clear info, talented teacher. Bravo!

[@Spaethon]

Very awesome tutorial! I just got CS6 Extended and am very excited to use it for my new website. Your tutorials will help make that happen. Thanks a million!!

[@mikiduric]

Men i love your tutorials so much. You speak so clearly that i understand every word you are saying even my English is second language :)

[@HowardPinsky]

Your graphics card drivers may be out of date, or may not have enough memory. The new features in Photoshop CS6 take advantage of the GPU.

[@SyedRakibulHoque]

You are a great designer I have seen ever. Thank you for your video. Please, keep working like this. I have subscribed your channel.

[@HowardPinsky]

If you get crazy with the gradients, yes. You can always add a "Noise" dither to blend it together a bit.

[@ThereseSherman]

That was fabulous. Succinct and powerful tutorial. I've always done my animations inf After Effects, popping back and forth to Illustrator or PS. Can't wait to play with the technique.

[@Jerbod2]

Great video! This is one of these things that are fun!

[@TCBrasting]

This is such as well explained tutorial!! So impressed!

[@jin98309]

That was literally a "super quick break". Great tutorials by the way!:D

[@juppikumar]

Wow .. awesome job man ..

[@MrIncrediculous]

Wow, I have made tutorials in the past for After Effects. And they are SHAMEFUL compared to the quality of your tutorials! Very awesome! Glad to have subscribed to you sir!

[@Xolition]

Awesome work! Thanks.

[@rutujakale779]

Its amazing 😍 thank you for this great tutorial , it helped me lot. Thank you☺️

[@lightbygeorge]

Thank you. I'm new and am totally amazed at you teaching abilities and content. I'm a Photographer and looking for techniques to improve the quality. I've seen images that are so fantastic I'm questioning-did they shoot them like that OR post process in Photoshop. Great skills Howard.

[@Fnzldesigns]

Very nice, informative. Learn something new every time :)

[@wolfgear7126]

i have learned so much in that 14 min and 11 sec... thanks ..

[@dandenicola]

This is very well said. Both the computers I own are Mac, however I've always thought the same about PCs being a little misunderstood and generalized for those cheap $150 ones. I do favor OS X, but that's just my opinion and I do realize that there are PCs out there that can meet up to the average Mac's performance and even greater. You just have to narrow it down to which operating system works best for you.

[@rafspoint]

Nice work.

[@DrAhmadHelmy]

Howard you're AWESOME !!!

[@wecameasthor]

Incredibly well presented tutorial! thank you very much :)

[@sophiabnia6010]

it's an awesome and straight forward tutorial... thanks

[@rds7516]

Looks amazing!!!

[@wiredolphin]

Thank you very much for share that! Great Job!!!

[@gregaaron89]

probably the most intelligent mac vs pc comparison i've seen in a youtube comment lol

[@BcottStudios]

Great tutorial, thanks

[@Hally_NL]

LOVE IT

[@Picotee810]

wow! very impressive, thanks

[@HowardPinsky]

Just to chime in again, I'm able to play pretty much any game I want on my Mac at high settings, even "PC" games. I can use Crossover or Boot Camp to run Windows games, and many games are now being ported to the Mac.

[@dvorapat]

Very nice video and very helpful (especially for animation thing). Thank you very much and keep it up! ;-)

[@MrENM120893]

actually im pretty sure many will agree with you but for the rest of things they'll disagree but i agree with you, i work on macs, pcs, and linux so i know the arguments people give on systems but they all have pros and cons

[@amazinga647]

great..GREAT tutorial!!!..thanks

[@MrAhebah]

I like watching your videos and learn a lot from them, although you don't always leave a link to renders and such? Could you please start leaving them in the description? Thanks :)

[@alstudiodesing8896]

Thank you for this!

[@LironsWalkthroughs]

I'm with you on this issue Kira, only I have Photoshop CS6 (not extended).

[@siribiriz]

Howard all your stuff is pretty amazing, I might be even slightly envious. How do figures these little nooks and crannies out? Do you just stumble across them through your work or are you inspired by others or is it just raw talent?

[@oguzturk8841]

Thanks a lot Sir.

[@Grifs99]

Thanks, nice tutorial. :)

[@ToomasKedrov]

SICK DUDE :D

[@NandyPR22]

great channel and great tutorial! keep it up! thumbs up :)

[@manohargolla9622]

Good Job man

[@spljicna]

I love your videos and i watched them all but i have to say that you can do this effect in Adobe After Effects much faster and simpler and with Adobe Converter make it almost any format you need. :)

[@HappyDancerInPink]

Thanks very much

[@WillowWildfire]

My Photoshop CS6 Extended won't give me the options you have on your Timeline. I even tried to uninstall and re-install the program, but it just shops up as frames, making it impossible for me to turn it in to an animation. I tried downloading your PSD file, that's when I got this message: "This file contains a timeline-based animation (Photoshop Extended o" that's where it cuts off, and there's only one button available that says "Convert" when hit it takes it all to frames. Ideas?

[@tatsuuuuuu]

your videos are fukin epic. without the smart object trick i had no idea how to make rotation into an animation.

[@1Celebrindor]

I didn't know that. That's interesting

[@J1MB08]

You should also bear in mind user preference, I have used both and actually just prefer the Mac interface to Windows, although I haven't used windows 7 before I would say to try out a windows and a mac in a shop or try a friends before you decide.

[@HippyNZ]

yep. i have been doing this to create slide shows, animated Christmas cards and annoying 'gifts' for friends for ages. I used to use something else till i learnt Fireworks then found doing it in photoshop was easier, photoshop is better for the image creation part. One project i am working on has 400 plus layers to ctreate an animation of a phone texting.

[@LironsWalkthroughs]

In-fact I checked, and it's not only Donovan. Photoshop CS6 EXTENDED is required to be able to make a new timeline like you did in the video.

[@1Celebrindor]

Macs cost more, however from what I've heard they do work pretty well for design projects (I don't use them so I have no first hand experience with macs though). That being said, if you want one for gaming, PC's have a MUCH larger title selection than Mac's do. I have a friend who really likes macs however he reluctantly switched to PC's because macs don't have as many titles as PC's do. I'd recommend a PC for that reason.

[@KB-rs1sc]

Great Work! The PSD Link is broken, unfortunately

[@mostafa1845]

Somehow i cant get the Timeline like yours, its shows to me the normal layers animation and i believe my graphics and memory are enough.

[@IMotivatedd]

I will be getting a new computer soon for graphics and gaming what should i get? Mac or Custom pc? I have always wanted a mac but i don't know whats faster, more space.

[@JuuusoXO]

Use the carrot tool. You can download it from Arttu if you really want to use fingersalad.

[@coolspart]

Thank you for taking the time to share with us. So how can i use this button in adobe muse,,and be able to add a link to it,,I'm new at this,, but if anyone is willing to help,,,that would be awesome!!!!

[@Ccb780]

The Animation panel is different because he is using Photoshop CS6 EXTENDED, you can only obtain extended by having the correct serial (probably means rebuying), or downloading as a trial. If you see roughly the same layout, but are missing the buttons you most likely do not have extended.

[@AdobeFlashMan]

Hey, I have the same problem here D: I solved it by making a selection with the Elliptical Marquee Tool (pressing alt to unselect the middle of the circle) and then deleting it, creating this "circular window".

[@JdCraft]

i like this

[@kaneliaspring]

Love trying out your stuff for the first time :-) and I find you to be a great teacher!! I do have a problem thaw. When I an going to place my curser over the top of the document and drag the gradient out in possession, it only activates my shape path and does nothing for the gradient. Do you know what I am doing wrong? I cant get my gradient showing. Thanks Janicke

[@montgal53]

Hello Howard. I have a question. In the Layers panel in the Ellipse 1 layer, I see that the thumbnail is different when I follow that particular step (i.e., the thumbnail has a white background with an icon on the lower right). What did you do to that particular layer to get that result? I am following your tutorial perfectly. However, I don't know how to get to that level of the tutorial. I hope I am making sense. I am using Photoshop CC 2018. Your thoughts. (by the way, the PSD link is no longer live).

[@TuhinBagh]

Hey what about that Disco text effect..?? was seeing that day on your some photo hosting site :D

[@aauthority]

Congratulation you just made me subscribe you =D Nice Guide

[@raymondstpaul4913]

Hello I like your tutorial have more tutorials? Do you have tutorials that have text of each of your steps I can't keep up have to constantly pausing the video. I have a question involving flags I want to create my own animated flag that I want to transfer to another program Hitfilm Ultimate 2. How do you make flags seem to move realistically? I also want to do this with other images on the flag. Can you please advise me? Is it a model image you also use for transferring to other programs?

[@jeromemanalo8036]

Hi i have a question, i was trying to rotate it in counterclockwise, but i can't seem to get it work. Tried setting the values to -180, though it still doesn't work. I think i'm doing something wrong, but i can't figure it out. Any tips/help? Thanks and best regards!

[@valdefor]

Depends what you will be doing the most, if you are going to game the most.. Then I would suggest a custom-PC. Not all games work on a Mac natively.. Unless you dual boot and run Windows on another partition. And if you go with a custom-PC you will get it far cheaper. I run a custom-PC right now, but I will be getting a Mac as well. :)

[@GunsnCola]

Ok, so I've been trying to render a Photoshop animation with Adobe Media Encoder inside the Photoshop application. I have the Photoshop Image Sequence option but the Adobe Media Encoder is grey and can not be accessed. I am using CS6. Also I can not make a .Gif out of it because it is at a 1920x1080 pixel ratio. Advice or a fix would be very much appreciated.

[@josephdelatolas3369]

I have the Adobe Photoshop CS6 version13.0.. but my animation timeline is different.. it has frames and only! i cant do what you do! What can i do?

[@IMotivatedd]

Never heard of it lol , But i will look into it.

[@PilotPlater]

I wouldn't call myself a fanboy per-se. It all depends what type of user you are. For me, I'm a DIYer, and on my desktop is custom built, and has a few linux distros, windows 7, and soon I'm going to get osx on here as well. (I don't plan on using it as a main os, but just to familiarize myself with it for when I work on client systems.) That all takes a while to get set up and configure to your liking, but the cost-to-performance ratio, in my case, was a lot better than a mac. ($1,100 system)

[@intermision1]

nice

[@Neinka]

Hi! Is it possible to do this for another shape? Say hexagon perhaps? I was trying to make it but the glow takes shape of the hexagon and when it rotates it's not looking good.

[@jeglider]

I'm having problems to get tha "advanced" timeline shown. Is it only available in Extended or?

[@superg8100]

Can you make a tutorial on how to make someone look like a terminator?

[@EMIXela]

Make a video of animated matte paint PLEASE

[@DJ_DEAD_WOLF]

Howard Pinsky Can you put the PSD. file back up please. the custom shape part doesn't work for me. Think it's because I use CS5 but I'm not sure.

[@Natum990]

I can't finder the shape picker on my options bar any suggestions on fixing this?

[@2chimoto]

hey Howard, is it ok with you if I use this as my avatar on other sites? i mean the .gif format...

[@ZackaryTheGreat]

PS CS6 is amazing

[@ClamentWeng]

More animated stuffs ~!!! :D

[@dypens]

hey Howard, plz do upload adobe's Premiere and After Effects tutorials too

[@TheGuyWhoCodes]

Hey i have a bit of a problem. When you do the reflected glow, the inner circle is still white, can you help?

[@allanashok]

even after i drew the circle in the beginning it still has the stroke, but u don't. i clicked no stroke button but till has the stroke. Then I saw urs closely u had a stroke first but it just diapered. What did u do help!!

[@WildDivaNymph]

Thank you, is there any way to keep the high quality of my image when saving it as gif?

[@HowardPinsky]

I showed a preview of this button, but never made a tutorial on it. I have a tutorial on a different kind of button, but it's not the same.

[@TwinkyPowers]

when i try to put the cirlcle frame i cant subtract from the layer?

[@ZedaKeys]

When I open the timeline I get something different from you,did I do something wrong? or do you have to have a plugin for it?

[@TonioDC79]

Hey, Around 5:18-5:22 is so confusing, it's driving me crazy. I feel you are leaving out a step. Drawing custom shape (cut-out), then you create another custom shape that creates almost a double cut out shape, that the one part that I'm completely confused on. Help if you can. Thanks BTW...

[@ken_solo]

Tony Coffield Lilz.MonkeyBoy I don't know if it has to do with windows, but what I did worked and it's exactly the same thing. When you've created the window layer, select this layer so it's highlighted. Then you click the button he summoned at 4:49 (if you can't see this, make sure you have selected your shape tool (shortcut 'u')) and choose the option 'Substract Front Shape'. Then you just draw the 'Circle Thin Frame' shape on the window layer with holding alt and shift. And if you look at his tumbnail of the window and yours, you'll see it's exactly the same. Hope this helps :)

[@MrNickaldinho]

Is there a way to render this without the background or creating 115+ Separate images?

[@videoDKNY]

how do you get the guide line i dont have a mac -.- Commando control R ?

[@greenwolfsierra9]

that's what i was wondering.

[@CourageToGroww]

you can do both with a PC but macs are just so easy and fluid when it comes to the desktop and they way everything is so set up its more computer "noob" friendly and the interface is easier to get around with. Macs can play games but getting a good gaming PC would be better because you can get the best graphics cards. unlimited hard drive space and crazy processors. Just go to a computer store and tell them what you want and someone will help you make your PC under a certain budget.