Creating artwork in Photoshop

Photoshop gives you some great tools for making good looking buttons.…I'm going to start by creating a vector shape layer.…I'm going to use the Rounded Rectangle Tool and do a little double-check up…here in the Options Bar to make sure it's making a shape layer, and then I've…chosen a 100 pixels for the Radius, I arrived at that by experimentation, you…almost always do want to go up that, it's too small or too big and change the value here.…As I'm creating this I want to make sort of a wide but shallow button, but it's not centered.…So here is a little trick if you don't know this.…

If you hold down the mouse button, don't release it, press the Spacebar then you…can reposition, then when you let go of the Spacebar you can continue drawing,…just kind of a little nicer.…Because, red was my foreground color, if you notice over here in the Layers…Panel, it's sort of like a sheet of color with a Vector Mask, but I want to make…it look more interesting.…So I'm going to use Styles.…If your Styles Panel isn't visible, go up to Window and choose Styles to bring it up.…