Start off with a 150x150px white background. Now go edit - fill - choose the background color of your site and press OK!
Now create a small selection similar to the one I created below:...

Start off with a new image, whatever size. Create a new layer and call it gradient. Select your gradient tool and click on the properties of the gradient. Then this menu below should appear. Fix the colors and try to make it look exactly like mine!...

Ok, if you are going to do this tutorial, I suppose you have knowledge on how to create patterns. This pattern that we are making, is like small screws sticking out of the image. This pattern has a center, and it drops shadows. So what you are going to do is to create a new document (9x9px)...

1. Start off with an image at the size of mine with a white background. With your eliptical marquee tool create a circle. Create a new layer and fill your selection with orange.
2. Deselect. Click your dodge tool located on the toolbar. Choose an exposure of 50% and a 100px sized brush...

1. Ok we're gonna start out with a pattern as a background. This part is unecessary if you are using your own background pattern. With your rounded rectangle tool, with a 4 px radius create a rectangle with somewhat the same size as I did. Make it black.
2. Now create a new gradient...

Open up a new image in photoshop, any size, but preferably about 500X500 pixels. Go to the channels window beside your layers window, and click the "create a new channel" button at the bottom right corner of the window. It's name should be Alpha 1...

WDL exclusive tutorial.
To complete this tutorial you will need a photo of person you want to create a silhouette from. In addition, you will to select the silhouette of this person on white background. I will not describe how to do that in this tutorial.

Righto, let me get straight to it, but before you start this tutorial, there is one thing you should know. This tutorial is for the more advanced Photoshop user, so you should only try this if you have been using Photoshop for a while and know the tools. I will be using simplified terms...

Before we get onto the introductions, this might seem like a whopper of a tutorial for such a small thing, but it teaches a lot about gradients, which are essential for any Photoshop user to know. Once you learn how to use these gradients well, you will be able to do so much more in Photoshop...

Here I will show you how I make a very basic link button :)
1. Start with a new image (file-->new) with a width of 88px, a height of 31px and a transparent background.
2. Open up an image that you have previously made (file-->open)...