Part 1

banner
  1. Flood Filled using Blue Strings texture
  2. Text tool red fill, no stroke, antialias, float
  3. 3d effects Inner Bevel set to Metallic
  4. 3d effects Drop Shaddow 3 vertical, 3 horizontal, 100 opacity, 5 blur, colour black
  5. Made background colour the same blue as the blue on original image using dropper
  6. Used Magic Wand to select blue on original image
  7. Inverted selection to select the smiley face
  8. CTRL+C to copy
  9. CTRL+SHIFT+E to paste transparently onto the banner, twice
  10. Added borders in cyan, 3 pixels wide
  11. Butonnised height 10, width 10, opacity 100 transparent edge
 Smile
Original image


Part 2

big smile
Original image		 big smile
Transparent background
  1. Resized image to 10%
  2. Made background colour the same blue as the blue on original image using dropper
  3. Used Magic Wand to select blue on original image
  4. Inverted selection to select the smiley face
  5. CTRL+C to copy
  6. CTRL+SHIFT+E to paste transparently onto the button
  7. Text tool blue fill, no stroke, antialias, float
  8. 3d effects Inner Bevel set to Fire with Blue Flame, flame height 28
  9. Text tool blue fill, no stroke, antialias, float
  10. Deselect all
  11. Butonnised height 10, width 10, opacity 50 transparent edge
 Smiley Button
Smiley Button