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I make a lot of blog buttons (or badges). A. Lot. I think its a blog prerequisite to have one. Just kidding. But it is a nice companion to your blog.

What exactly is a button, a new blogger may ask? Well, its a small square image, usually 125×125 pixels, that coordinates with your blog design, that represents your blog. It can have your blog name, an image and even a short blurb…just giving a snapshot. You can add it on your blog, along with the code for people to copy and paste onto their blog. And if you’d like to know how to add that code, here’s how.

So today I’m going to show you how to create a very simple but classy button using Photoshop Elements. Its quite simply really. Here are a few videos (about 12 minutes in all) to get you started…

UPDATE: This video has been moved to the How to Blog: Video Tutor Library. You can purchase it here for $3.

One thing I forgot to say in the video is after you are done with your button, you’ll want to save it as a .jpg, by going to File>Save For Web. That will put it in the format you need for web use.

Hope that was helpful! If you create a button using this tutorial, I’d love to see it!