Blue Web 2 buttons for default vB skin

I've been looking for some buttons to replace the slightly ugly buttons that come with the default vbulletin skin. I wanted them to be roughly the same size as the originals.

Inspired by demgel's excellent black glossy buttons, and using the Silk icons, I made these for my own site.

The zip file contains a number of sets, with popular mattes. The Photoshop PSD file is also included.

Installation:

Simply upload the files to your forum/images/buttons and forum/images/misc directories. To uninstall, copy the originals back.

For standard vb colours, use different sets according to whether you use postbit legacy (when looking at a thread, the users info is on the left of the post) or the new postbit (where the posters info is above the post) and use the appropriate button set.

To use the PSD enclosed:

1. Make your changes.
2. Make sure there is no background selected.
3. Save for web and devices.
4. Select individual slices and set the matte colour (background you are going to have behind the buttons).
5. When you press Save, choose "All user slices".

The font used is Myriad Web Pro (not included in PS, but is included in Lightroom and Lightroom trials, if they still do them). PS will happily replace this font with Myriad Pro, which is very close.

I'm no designer, but I hope they are useful.

They can be seen in action here.

Standard colours:



Black:



Red by request:



Postbit legacy:



Postbit (new):



Versions:

1.0 My first thoughts
1.1 Added some mattes
1.2 More mattes
1.3 Reduced the size of the small round buttons, added a black button set
1.4 Made "postbit legacy" and "postbit new" versions
1.5 Added buttons: thanks, px, reputation, included PSD in main file, small cosmetic changes to the buttons, added black buttons to the PSD.
1.6 Made some changes to the appearance (get rid of the softness at the bottom of some buttons and reduced the inner glow to look better on black), added some buttons and included some requested colours.

[Alfa1]

Those look excellent Pottsey. Many thanks!

[Mischievious]

Originally Posted by Pottsy

To resize, I just started again! You could just use Edit, Transform, Scale though.

Oy.. I'm not good at photoshop with these kinds of graphices. Would it be too much for me to ask you to resize the three big buttons in 105x20, and include them in a seperate PSD file? I would really appreciate it!

[Pottsy]

Originally Posted by Mischievious

Would it be too much for me to ask you to resize the three big buttons in 105x20,

Here you go!

[ninjamaster]

thanks real like these

[Alfa1]

Could you add a 'Add Buddy', a 'Remove Buddy', a 'Ignore', a (find) 'Threads', a (find)'Files', a (find)'Wiki' and a (find) 'Images' button? (last three similar to find posts)

[domregchief]

any equivalent replacements for the forum listings on forum homes. I like the ones you use on your site..

[petacat]

Nice.

For an unsupported product you seem to be doing a great support job!

Can I put in a suggestion that post_groan image would be handy.

Trialling them now to see if they become my choice.

Thanks

[valdet]

A truly awesome set. Very clean and neat.

Thanks so much. Installed and looking great..

[KURTZ]

really good buttons but i need a red and a green set also

[ciprianrpp]

great. thank you. INSTALLED