Step 1

First, create some text with the Text tool (T). I used Museo Sans 900 at 18 pt. Take off any stroke or fill from the text.

Step 2
Select your text, open the Appearance panel, and from the pop-up menu of the panel choose New Fill. Select the new fill item in the Appearance panel and fill it with a linear gradient. Change the first color stop in the gradient to a dark gray, change the second color stop to black, and set the Angle to 90.

Step 3
Select the gradient fill item in the Appearance panel and press the Duplicate Selected Item button at the bottom of the panel. Select the bottom duplicate in the list and go Effects > Distort & Transform > Transform. In the Transform dialog, change the Vertical Move to 1 px (-1px if working in CS4). Change the first color stop of the duplicate linear gradient to white, the second to a light gray, and change the angle to -90.

Step 4
Create a New Fill from the Appearance panel like early in the tutorial and drag the fill item below all other fills. With the new fill selected, go Effects > Convert to Shape > Rounded Rectangle. In the Shape Option dialog, select Relative, change the Extra Width to 10 px, change the Extra Height to 4 px, and change the Corner Radius to 3 px. For the linear gradient fill, add another color stop to the gradient by clicking just below the Gradient Slider in the Gradient panel. Change the first color stop to a light gray, the second to a gray color, and the third to a dark gray, and set the Angle to -90.

Step 5
Select the last fill item in the Appearance panel and press the Duplicate Selected Item button. Make sure you have the last fill in the list and go Effects > Path > Offset. In the Offset dialog change the Offset to 1 px. From the Gradient Panel press the Reverse Gradient button.

Step 6
Create a New Fill, drag it below all other fills, and convert it to Rounded Rectangle with the same dimensions as in Step 4. With the new fill item selected, go Effects > Distort & Transform > Transform. In the Transform dialog, change the Vertical Move the 7 px (-7 px for CS4). Change the linear to have three colors stops and change the first to a dark gray, the second to a gray color, and the last one a dark gray. Move the individual Middlepoints between each of the color stops closer to the darker gray color stops and set the Angle to 0.

Step 7
Duplicate the last fill, make sure the last item is selected, and go Effects > Path > Offset. In the Offset dialog change the Offset to 1 px. Next, change the fill to dark gray. With the item still selected go Effects > Stylize > Drop Shadow. In the Drop Shadow dialog, change the Opacity to 60, the X Offset to 0, the Y Offset to 1 px, and the Blur to 1 px.

Step 8
Its looks pretty good, but we can add just a little more depth with a radial gradient. Duplicate you third fill item, select to topmost copy, and fill it with a radial gradient. Change both color stops to white, change the first color stops Opacity to 56 and the second color stop to 0.

Step 9
Now that we are done, we can create a Graphic Style so we can apply it other elements. Simply select your text and press the New Graphic Style button in the Graphic Style panel. Now you can apply your button style to other text and vector objects! Try changing the colors for fun.

Nice? Hehe. Lets begin. Open up a new document size 250150 and fill the background out with #252a38 .

Now lets create a shape. Now get any color you want (we are going to change it later anyway) and get your Rounded Rectangle Tool ( ). On the top of the screen youll have some properties and I have made a screenshot on which ones to select:

If you have put those properties you can continue making a shape. Create a new layer and just make a shape on the middle of your screen.

Now we are going to fill it with some gradient. We will need two colors though:

As you can see on the image above the two used colors are #3a4056 and #303548. Now Ctrl+Click on the layer where you made the shape (in your layers panel, CTRL + click on the image next to the layer name and it will be selected). Now the outline of that layer should be marked. Grab your Gradient Tool ( ) and while holding Shift on your keyboard make a gradient from top to bottom of your shape:

Now lets add a Drop Shadow to that layer. Right click on the layer and select Blending Options. Now apply these ones to the layer:

Now were going to add a Stroke but on one different way. Hold Ctrl and click on the shape layer. You should see a selection on your screen. Now go to Select>Modify>Contract , put it to 1px and press OK. Now create a new layer and fill it with any color you want and put the Fill to 0%. Now right click on that layer and go to Blending Options and apply these ones:

If you followed the tutorial carefuly you should be having three layers (Background, Shape and Stroke) and your button would look like this:

Now lets make our button a bit stylish as I said in the title. For this you are going to need Dodge ( ) and Burn ( ) Tool. For both you are going to use the following properties:

I have used the Soft Brushes which you get in every Photoshop. Now select your Shape layer. I have made an image to show you were to use your Dodge and Burn Tool. Please note that you should press your mouse a few times before you get the amount of brigthness/darkness you wanted.

If everything turned out well, you should be having something like this:

Lets add some more light to make it look glossy. Ctrl+Click on your shape layer and grab your Elliptical Marquee Tool ( ). Now while holding Alt cut down a bit of the selection. My example:

Grab your Gradient Tool ( ) and press your keyboard the letter D and than G. Now you should be having white (#ffffff) as your first color. Now at your Gradient Properties select Foreground to Transparent like shown on the picture below:

Now use your gradient like this (from bottom to top):

After your done you can deselect the layer (Ctrl+D). Now put the layer to Overlay and Opacity to 40%. It should look like this:

Looks perfect, doesnt it? I think its the time to add some text and icons. First will go with the text. I have chosen the font Arial, Regular, 25 pt, Smooth; and the color of the font is #ffffff. Write something down and add these Blending Options to the text:

This is how my text looks like now (I have moved it a bit to the right because the icon will go left):

I have added another small text underneath this one as a description with a size 11pt:

Its time to addthe icon. You can chose which ever you want but I have decided to use the ones by Free Icons Download (they are Spyware free dont worry). Grab the icon you need (I have chosen the home button for the obvious reason) and paste into your design. Now go to Image>Adjustements>Hue/Saturation (Ctr+U) and put the Saturation to -100:

After that just put your icon to Overlay and your done. Note: If your icon is too bright (too hard to see), you can duplicate it and just change the opacity of the duplicated layer. This should be your final image than: