Flash has created an era of Highly interactive and eye catching wedesign techniques.Of course the design of the web site also plays and important role in its promotion.Here we are going to create a glossy round button in flash..

• Open a new flash document by pressing Control + N.
• In the first frame of layer one draw a circle with the oval tool .You can adjust the width and height of the circle so that its uniform.as shown in the figure

• Double click on the circle so as to select it as a whole.
• Now open Color mixer panel (shift + F9) and select the fill option as linear
• Set the left side color to 0x0000FF and right side color to )x00FFFF as shown in the figure

• Select the fill transform tool from the tools panel.
• Click on the circle and transform the fill colors as shown in the figure

• Now rotate the mouse so that filled colors get transformed like this

• Now press F8 and covert it in to a button.Now we are in the button edit mode.
• Add a new layer to the movie by Selecting Insert >>Timeline>>New layer.
• Using the oval tool draw an oval shape in the top layer that we have created just now. the shape for creating the glossiness as seen in the button
• The oval shape must be smaller than the circle .

• Drag it over the circle shape
• Now select the shape by double click and go to the color mixer panel

• Reduce the alpha on right side to 0.
• Now select the fill transform tool and click over the oval shape
• Transform the filled colors so as to get the image as shown.

• Click on the layer below i.e. the circle layer and insert a new layer above it by selecting Insert >>Timeline>>New layer
• Using the text tool type in the text for your button I have written "GO" .

  

• Select the top layer and click on the 4th frame i.e. the "Release" frame and press F5
• Do the same in the lowest layer and middle layers also.
• Now select the middle layer containing the text..Click on the second frame i.e. the " over" frame of button and press F6
• Press Control + T to open the transform tool .
• Increase the height and width % to 105 and press Enter.
• Go back to the main timeline and your glossy button is ready