July 31, 2008

Shiny buttons in Inkscape

Switch on the grid



Create a rectangle



Press F2 and grab the circle grip and drag to make it rounded



Make another rectangle , fill it with white and a gradient from white to transparent



Switch of the stroke



Copy the original rectangle and lower to bottom



Change it's color , switch of the stroke and add transparency


Add some text



Export as a png



You can change the color of the first rectangle and get a variety of colors.



The svg file can be downloaded here .

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