Open a new image – Width: 200 Height: 200 Resolution: 72 pixels/inch Background: Transparent Image type: 16.7 million colors
| 1. Flood fill Layer 1 with whatever color you prefer to work on or leave it transparent. | |
2. Create a new layer named button color and make a selection using the Selection tool. 
Selection type: Circle Feather: 0 Antialias: Checked Click on: Selections –>Save to Alpha Channel and hit OK each time, or you can name the saved selection if you prefer. |
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| Flood Fill with a medium solid color. I used R: 244 G:164 B: 96 |  Figure 1 |
| Note: Assume the selection stays active until the instructions advise you to deselect. | |
| 3. Selections –> Modify –> Contract Number of Pixels: 6 |  Figure 2 |
Hold down the Right button on your mouse and use the Mover tool  to move the selection up until it looks like the circle in Figure 3. |
 Figure 3 |
| Hold down the Control key and using the Selection tool with the same settings as before, make a circle approx. the same as the first. (This will be easier if you make a note of the starting point for your first circle).Your selection should look like the one in Figure 4. |  Figure 4 |
| Use the Mover tool to move the selection (don't forget to hold down the right mouse button) until it is back on the circle. Your selection should look like the last circle in Figure 5. |  Figure 5 |
| Save the selection to an Alpha Channel (this will be Selection #2) and Deselect. |
