GIMP/Add a Shine to Buttons
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[edit] What the Effect Looks Like
The effect will produce something like this:
[edit] Design the Button
For this button I selected all, then did Image>Select>Rounded Rectangle, with a radius of 50. I filled it with red, then I selected the border and filled with a darker red.
[edit] Add a New Layer for the Shine
Create a new layer (call it shine or something similar), then select the whole region of your button (If you created it on a new layer you can right click on the layer and select “Alpha to Selection”), next shrink the selection (Image>Select>Shrink), how much you want to shrink it depends on the size of the image, for mine I used 6px, then fill the selection with white.
Now, you have a big ugly white spot in your image, how will that be turned into a shine? First, turn the layer transparency down to about 80%, this is found in the layers dialogue
[edit] Turn the Ugly Spot into a Shine
First, add a layer mask, and select fill with black. (Full transparency).
Then go to the gradient tool and select linear white to black gradient, (make sure you are editing the layer mask-- it should have a white border around it in the layers dialogue), draw a gradient from wherever you want the shine to start (Top-left corner in the example) to about the middle, feel free to experiment.
[edit] Add Text/Drawings to Your Button
Once you are done you may add another layer for drawing on, or put text on, for the example I added the text “Button Text”.
