Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Create a new file. Create a new layer. Check out Fancy Buttons - 2 for the initial procedure. Get the Elliptical button and fill it with the color shown in the figure.

2. Filter > Noise > Add Noise

(Amount: 7, Uniform, Monochromatic)

3. Filter> Artistic> Paint Daubs

(Brush Size: 8, Sharpness: 7, Brush Type: Sparkle)

4. Filter> Artistic> Paint Daubs (Again with the same settings)

5. Duplicate the layer and change the blending mode of the top layer to Color Burn. Merge down the top layer.

6. Layer > Layer Style > Bevel and Emboss

Change the settings according to the following figure.

Please remember to change the size to 27

Click Drop Shadow also.

7. You will get the following result.