Now, let’s get to work…Open a new document. Mine is 1280px wide by 1024 px high. Fill the background layer with dark blue (#01132e). Create a new layer, set the foreground color to #c6dbfc and the background color to #01b8ff 

. Select the „Brush tool” and choose the „Soft Mechanical 65 pixels” brush from the Basic Brushes Set.

Click on the Brushes button on the Icon Palette

and choose the folowing options:

Shape Dynamics:

Scattering:

Color dynamics:

And finally Other dynamics:

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OK then, let’s start.

Open a new document (mine is 600×600).

Create a new layer and pick the „Elipse Tool”. Draw a blue circle holding SHIFT down. (I used #3c88fa).

Now, let’s apply some blending options:
First is „Drop Shadow”

Next is „Gradient overlay”

Create a new layer. Select the „Custom Shape Tool” and choose the „Arrows”.

Pick arrow9 and draw an arrow in the middle of the blue circle:

Right click on the arrow layer and choose „Rasterize layer”. Then pick the „Rectangular Marquee Tool” and draw a small rectangle like in the picture below:

Delete the selected rectangle and after that move the rectangle down, press the Delete key and continue until your arrow looks like this:

Let’s add now some blending options to the arrow layer:

First „Stroke”:

And then „Drop Shadow”

And finally „Gradient Overlay”:

And the button is now ready:

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First of all you need to download the twitter font (I found it here : http://twitterfont.com/ , Twitter font 1) . Install the font and then start Photoshop.

Open a new document (mine is 600×600 , I like to have space to move around).

Create a new layer and then pick the „Rounded Rectangle Tool”. On the top of the screen you have a toolbar. Set the properties like in the image below:

While holding „Shift” on your keyboard, create a shape in the middle of the document.

You should have something like this:

Now, we are going to add a gradient to the shape. Click on the „Gradient tool” .

Choose the following colors:

#1c86fb for foreground and #045dbf for background.

Then hold the CTRL key while clicking on the image next to your layer name, to select it.

Take the „Gradient tool” and while holding „Shift” down make a gradient from top to bottom.

And this is the result:

Now let’s add some effects to that layer. Right click on the layer and select Blending Options. First apply „Drop Shadow”. Set the properties like in the image below:

Then apply „Stroke”:

And „Inner Shadow”:

Create a new layer and grab the „Text tool”. Select the font you’ve just installed (PicoBlackAl). Set the font size to 150 pt an type „t”.

Let’s add „Bevel and Emboss” to the letter:

And finally create a new layer, then while holding the CTRL key click on the blue shape layer to select it. Take the „Elliptical Marquee Tool” an hold down SHIFT and ALT while drawing a elipse. You should get something like this:

Change the foreground color to white and grab the „Paint Bucket Tool” then color the selected new layer to white. Change the opacity of the layer to 10%. And here is the result:

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