quickly make a slightly altered looking Adobe CS3 Icon

To begin, create a new document and fill it with a background colour.

Next, grab your Rounded Rectangle tool. Change the radius to something that you think looks good. I used 8 pixels.

While holding Shift, drag the shape onto your document.

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Next, begin to add the effects by clicking on the "fx" icon at the bottom of your layers list.

Drop Shadow

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Inner Glow

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Gradient Overlay

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Stroke

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At this stage, your icon should look something like this:

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To finish it off, add some text (and maybe a shine if you feel necessary) and you're done!

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