Whats the best way to make them?

Pretty new to all this and just wanna know how you guys (and girls) make them?
I'm taking about this kinda thing!

there is probably an infinate number of ways to make the softkeys - it all depends on how you want your theme to look.

I make mine in Photoshop, using various techniques, sometimes using a variety of filters and sometimes using several layers to acheive the effect I'm after.

Your best bet would be to experiment, or failing that, check out the members' theme threads, find a style you like and then ask the member how he/she created it.

Experimentation is the key.

agree with simon, first you need to learn about photoshop, and then just let ur mind explore, there hundreds of ways to make em.
so there isn't one definite answer.

everyone has their own individual ways. it's what suites you best.

Better start mucking about with photoshop then

Also i recommend looking through and completing some of the tutorials here: http://www.good-tutorials.com, this is a site adonis gave us a while back and i have learnt a great deal from it and also produced some nice wallpapers . I learnt the use of the lasso tools from that site and in image ready how to use the Tweens feature

Wow... that page is amazing!!!

Now i can finally try to make some good themes

You could try this link as well (at the risk of giving away my upper hand ) http://www.pslover.com/tutorials.php

Thanks for ther links guys. There are tons of technique in there, so if i wanna make softkeys, what particular technique should i learn first? Cheers

try a metal or glass effect - they're quite easy and popular too

@vinnieza
Thanks that link will help me loads

JOE >

On the "good-tutorials.com" site, use their SEARCH button,..and write eg :
GLASS or MAC (just simple words)

Then you will get some pretty good tutorials on how to make buttons in the well known MAC/Glass transparent styles
(usually in the shape of pills and ovals)

Another one :
look in Patterns and textures for "TV-lines" (also very much used by us, hehe, and also for wallpapers for pc).
These lines create the TV-screen look

BR
Jan

Once again, a BIG THANKYOU to all

Goodluck joebmc, and to the others as well.