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This tutorial will be split into two parts. The first part aims to demonstrate how to make a simple interface for your web page using Photoshop. For the second part of the tutorial we will jump to image ready to slice the interface and make rollover buttons.
Now that you can see where some of the key lines in this interface are, you can use this knowledge to start lining up the elements properly on the page. This gives it a better flow, which improves the appearance and user-friendliness of the initial design.
Virtually every computer program there is today comes with a way for users to interact with it. If it didn't, the program wouldn't be of much use to anyone, would it? Most older programs offered nothing more than a rather frightening and intimidating text-based command line interface which required you to know awkward commands to be able to use it. Most of the more recent programs today, thank goodness, provide us with a graphical user interface (commonly called a GUI or "gooey") which is a much more user-friendly and intuitive way of telling the program what it is we want it to do. Fortunately for us, Photoshop comes with all kinds of "gooey" goodness, which makes our life a whole lot easier right off the bat.
For all of Photoshop's features and capabilities, options, palettes, tools, and raw pixel-pushing horsepower, it really boils down to one thing - how good we can get the image to look. And in order to know how we'll we're doing, we need to be able to see the image as we're working on it. That's where the Document Window comes in. This is where we get to actually see the image when we first open it, and what effect all of our changes are having on the image.
As you can probably imagine, a program like Photoshop has more options than you can wave a Magic Wand tool at, so to try and keep things simple and well organized, Adobe has divided the options into categories. The words you see in the menu bar (File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, and Help) are not options themselves but rather the main category names. There's 9 main options categories in total, and clicking on a category name will open a drop-down box displaying all the various options that Adobe has placed in those categories. Starting from the left, we have:
Photoshop may be at heart a pixel-pushing image editing application, but Photoshop's text and type abilities continue to improve with each new version. Since Photoshop 7, Adobe has been including both a Spell Checker and a Find and Replace command with Photoshop, and this fourth group under the Edit Menu is where we find them.
"Save For Web" brings up a dialog box which allows you to save and optimize your document for use on a website. You may be wondering why Photoshop has a "Save For Web" feature when ImageReady, not Photoshop, is what handles all of Photoshop's web-related options and functions. The simple answer is that while you may never have a need for any of ImageReady's more advanced web-related tools (unless you happen to be a web designer), it is quite common to want to save a copy of a photo for uploading to a website or for emailing to someone after working on it in Photoshop, so Adobe included the "Save For Web" option right in Photoshop so we wouldn't have to keep jumping over to ImageReady just to do that one thing. It's interesting to note though that Photoshop's "Save For Web" dialog box is actually powered by ImageReady, so you are technically working inside ImageReady when saving a file for the web in Photoshop, even though ImageReady is nowhere to be seen. Strange, but true.
Photoshop's Help Menu is fairly straightforward in that nearly every option you'll find in this menu category has to do with, well, help with Photoshop. As with the other menu categories, the Help Menu has been divided into related sub-categories of options, as indicated by the horizontal lines.
Once you become more familiar with Photoshop, you'll probably find that you spend less and less time in the Layer Menu and more time either selecting the same options from the Layer Palette itself, or even better, by simply using the keyboard shortcuts associated with many of the options and commands. And don't forget, you can create your own custom keyboard shortcuts as well.
The first group in the Select Menu is straightforward for the most part. "All" allows you to select everything on a layer, "Deselect" removes the selection. "Reselect" will reselect the last selection you made. The only not-so-straightforward option here is "Inverse", which will select everything that outside of your selection and deselect everything that was originally selected. In other words, if you drag out a rectangular selectin in the middle of a layer, Photoshop will select everything within that rectangular selection and leave everything outside of the rectangular shape deselected. By choosing "Inverse", Photoshop will do the exact opposite. It will select everything that was outside of the rectangular selection area and deselect everything that's inside of it. You may be wondering why you'd ever want to do something like that, but it actually comes in very handy more often than you'd think. For example, sometimes it's easier to select everything you don't want selected in an image (perhaps the object you want selected is framed by a solid colored background, in which case selecting the backgound would be easier than selecting the object) and then inverse the selection to select everything you did want to select..
The third group in the View Menu contains only one option, "Screen Mode". There are three screen modes to choose from. "Standard Screen Mode" is the default screen mode that Photoshop uses, which displays your image in a document window.
The second group under the Window menu is for showing and hiding Photoshop's palettes. Palette names with checkmarks beside them are currently being displayed on the screen, while the ones without a checkmark are currently hidden.
By default, the area on the right of the screen is where you'll find several of Photoshop's palettes already open and ready to help us work when we open up the program. This area is commonly referred to as the Palette Row or Palette Alley, and the palettes that Photoshop opens for us here by default are the ones that Adobe believes we're most likely to need open anyway, so they went ahead and opened them for us. The palette shown at the top of the page, for example, is the Layers palette, definitely a good choice when it comes to palettes we'll need open anyway. Other palettes opened for us by default are the History palette, the Color palette, and the Navigator palette. It's also worth noting that the Tools palette on the left of the screen is, as the name implies, a palette, even though it's long and narrow and looks nothing like the others. And the Options Bar at the top of the screen, directly beneath the Menu Bar, is also a palette. Both are listed as palettes with the others in the Window Menu of the Menu Bar.
Photoshop is often times referred to as a tool used by photographers, image editors, graphic designers, web designers, and other creative professionals, but really, it's not so much a tool itself as it is a collection of tools. There's a tool for dragging out a selection, a tool for making selections based on similar color and tonal values, a tool for adding type to a document, a tool for cloning one part of an image onto another part of an image, a tool for "healing" an image (which usually means removing wrinkles and various skin blemishes), a tool for zooming in and out of the document, a tool for dragging the document around inside the document window, and more. There's even tools which are variations of other tools, like how the Elliptical Marquee Tool is a variation of the Rectangular Marquee Tool. They both perform essentially the same task, which is to drag out a selection. They just drag out a different selection shape. There's a tool for grabbing the color from one part of an image, a tool for painting colors onto an image, a tool for erasing parts of an image, and yes, even a tool for removing red-eye from a photo, although for some strange reason, it took Adobe nine versions of Photoshop before they added a red-eye removal tool to their flagship professional-level image editing program.
Learn how to make a cool interface for something like a flash preloader. Note that this is an advanced tutorial, if you're new to photoshop you probably won't be able to completely follow this tutorial.
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I'm going to show you all the way I've do the applications interfaces or "skins" using Photoshop. Remember, you can change the methods and values that I use here, working in your own style. You can find the styles for PS 7.0 that I used for this here. Just click and with the rigth button of your mouse, choose "save target as..."
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STEP 4: Create a new layer, below your current designs draw a white rectangle with a size of 797 x 30 pixels.
Start with a large black canvas, in your layers window make a new layer set and name it Mp3 Player Interface. Choose your rounded rectangle tool and set the radius setting to 20 px with anti-aliased checked. In a new layer draw a 315 x 120 pixels, #606060 colored rounded rectangle.
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Here is another Navigation Interface tutorial but this time you will learn how to apply a shatter effect on the interface.
Two of the most recent big additions to Photoshop are smart objects and video layers, both which are very powerful and worth learning. I thought I would try and write the best and longest tutorial ever on these at the same time. Through creating an animated grunge style interface, we will learn some useful techniques and ways to use both of these in any of your projects.
Now, using the same beveled line technique (with one line selection) create lines to separate the remote into separate buttons. You will need to make them on the appropriate layer (inside or base). If you want, add some text for the buttons and a background. Add rollovers, cut up the image with Adobe ImageReady or using the Cutting Up Images tutorial, and you should have a remote control interface that will make all your buddies jealous!
Now create a new layer set and name it 'Navigation Interface Design'. Then create a new layer and draw a long rectangle with 900 � 26px dimensions and #636363 colour shade.
You may download the zip version this interface. Please open your copy of CentralDynamo.psd in Photoshop so you can have it handy and be able to use it as a reference when you need to. This helps you to see where a certain element of the interface needs to be on the document. A tip I recommend is to set your screen resolution to 1152 x 864 or higher. Of course this is not mandatory, but I have found that when working in Photoshop you need all the desktop space you can have.
Before we begin, I would like to thank you very much for trying this tutorial. Your continued support will allow me to create more incredible and useful tutorials for you to benefit from. When you complete this tutorial, I would appreciate any feedback you wish to give me. PLEASE post on the forums if you have a chance. Once again, thank you. I assume that you have a basic understanding of Photoshop such as how to create and delete layers and channels etc. However, if you do get stuck on a step, or have questions about ANYTHING, please contact me at: . I will be more than happy to answer your questions about how to do a technique or step. Also, the units used in this tutorial are pixels. Thanks again, and have fun! Please open your copy of SuperWidget.psd in Photoshop so you can have it handy and be able to use it as a reference when you need to. Download the .psd in zip format, and unzip it to get to the psd file. This helps you to see where a certain element of the interface needs to be on the document. A tip I recommend is to set your screen resolution to 1152 x 864 or higher. Of course this is not mandatory, but I have found that when working in Photoshop you need all the desktop space you can have.
Learn how to make dents in your interface! A great way to learn how to use the dodge and burn tool.
Open your Interface and find a nice place to add this detail to. In the case of screws, It is good to put it on the edge of a metal plate or a flat surface. My "interface" is a flat layer of color Hex #333333. From now on, I will call the already existing interface (or in my case my background) the "background".
The orange button things look a bit naff (at least in that colour) and I don't like how the vertical line intersects them. Some of the effects on their own are quite interesting though.
Take all these into consideration as you write down ideas for your website, it will make design and development much easier.
5. In the layers panel double click the new layer to get to the styles panel, and give it settings as shown below.
Okay, we start by making a new canvas and filling it with a dark blue-cyan color. Then we select the brush tool and start brushing our shape. Note: You can also do this with the pen tool, but i prefer brush tool, since i have a wacom. This is my result: Now we decrease the opacity on our brush tool to about 20% and start to mark the areas where our highlights/shadows will be. My result: As you see it already has a 3d look but its very rough. Don't worry about that yet. Now we pick the eraser or pen tool and delete the areas we dont want. For the inset i used polygonal lasso tool to clean it up and give it straight edges. Now we select the smudge tool at around 10-20%. Select a round hard brush and start draging it over the areas that need to be smoothen. Now duplicate your interface part and go to Filter-Scetch-Chrome and play around with the settings. Change the layer Blending Mode to color dodge. Now pick the pen tool and make the shape for the vents at the side. Then select a small airbrush and make the light highlights. Make the same for the big inset. Duplicate your part and move it up abit. Duplicate both of your parts and to go Layer-Transform-Flip horizontal and move it to the right side. Use the same technique that i explained before to make the middle bit of your template. I started to define the edges at this stage. With the Brush tool at around 20% opacity. Defined the shape abit more and cleaner up the vent. Select the pen tool and make the selection for the orb bit. Make a vertical gradient from black-white. Duplicate the layer move it up and use this gradient: This is my result: I started to develop the highlights here.Duplicate the layer then go to Filter-Scetch-Chrome again and set the blending mode to color dodge. This is how it looks when the banner is duplicated and flipped horizontaly. Select the orb, go to edit-transform-scale and make it smaller. Then play with the level around (image-adjustments-levels). Just keep trying until you are satisfied. Now i selected the Single Row Marque Tool and selected a part from the enginees. I erased the unwated parts. Then i went to Edit-Transform-scale and strectched the part down. To give an illusion of bars going to the vents i just erased some parts of the borders using an airbrush. Now we will do some futuristic flames or whatever you want to call it. At this stage just e...
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Layer styles can make your interface-making days much easier if you learn how to work them, and save your styles for use later. Lets see how to make a simple interface. Make a new layer, and create a shape using the Round Rectangle tool. Apply a Linear gradient of light gray to medium gray
Select your Horizontal Type Tool and above your screen under the options palette set the font family to Century Gothic, regular, 18 pt, smooth and black color shade. In a new text layer type your first navigation title.
In this photohop tutorial you will learn how to make a stylish metallic navigation interface using layer styles and simple shapes. Continue Reading
1. We will start by making the base shape, by doing this we will create 2 elliptical shapes and place them as I did below, then make a rectangular shape on top of those circles.
This may be a bit different then your average tech-interface but that's because I made it :D I will teach you how to create a nice retro/tech interface in a few steps!
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30. Name your link on the image map palette, and type in the URL, either relative or exact, that this menu item should point to. If the target is different from replacing your current page, then type that in the target field. Add your alternate text label for this link to the alt field.
Will the interface escape the lab of the evil flatland? Will it get depth and texture? Will it ever see buttons and features? Tune in next week to the same channel and same time. Hang on to this psd, because we are going to continue with it next week and give it depth and texture.
We are going to have to lighten and darken parts of the background to make it look like the metal is "bending upwards" from the cracks.
Now that you have the main part of your interface, select a small portion of the bottom of it. As seen below.
Select - Modify - Contract - 3 pixels - OK.
5) Still using the polygonal lasso tool just cut out lines from the square. Heres what i did. You don't need to do this, but this gives our website a more techy look.
1. Open a new document. Set width/height to 400�250 for a good working area.
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I started with a sketch first.
The Tools panel the long, narrow panel on the far left side of the work area contains selection tools, painting and editing tools, foreground and background color selection boxes, and viewing tools. In Photoshop Extended, it also includes 3D tools.
How to make a Video-player-interface in photoshop.
To begin create a new image 500�100 pixels for the Dimensions, fill the background with #3F3F3F
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In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create the interface effect above.
The first step is to make a section for your website's title to go it. So, use your rectangle selection tool to select a rectangle shape in the middle of your top title gradient. Fill it with a dark gray.
Ok, you have made it this far. This section will show you how to make the navigation bar, and buttons.
Basically what we are going to do is add a spot for your content (text) to go. For this, select a rectangle shape that just about fills up the empty middle space from side to side and is not too thick. Use your gradient tool to make another gradient, making sure that the darker portion is on the top.
My result: Duplicate the part that we have and move it to the other side. Select the brush tool opacity 40% and flow 40% and start developing the shadows and highlights. Don't worry about it being clean just yet. Now bring out the Smudge Tool at around 20% strenght. Start smothing the shadows. I decreased the opacity of the layer and cleaned out the unnecesary parts with the Pen Tool. Duplicate the layer and go to Edit-Transform-Flip Horizontal and move it to the other side. This is my result: Make 2 shapes like below. I used Pen Tool and to fade the start of the part in i used Eraser Tool with a 40px airbrush. Continue making shapes to give it an ingraved feel. My result: Make 2 highlights with the Dodge Tool and a 2px airbrush. Started developing the shapes abit more. Just used the Brush Tool at 60% opacity and 40% flow Cleaned up the shape and i used the Dodge Tool to highlight the edges. My image so far: Now make 2 tiny highlights like we made before. Select the Brush Tool and just click. Then duplicate the layer and use the Move Tool to move it to the other side. Select the Brush Tool and a 20px airbrush. I am gonna make some selections for the footer that we made. You can also play with the Blending Mode of the layer at this stage, but i didn't. Use the Brush Tool and an airbrush to give the template some more eye-candy. This step is basicly optional, but i really like to give it some extra feeling. You could also make some smoke or lasers or such. Just play around and you can come up with something really cool. Duplicate the layer and use the Move Tool to position it. Then go to Edit-Transform-Flip Horizontal and move it to the other side of the template. Insert some text. I putt in "PS" becouse the site name is PhotoshopSpot.com. Just give it a blue outer glow and hit ok. My result: Now select the banner text layer and duplicate it. Go to Filter-Blur-Motion Blur and select around 100. Make sure your angle is horizontal. Set the layer to overlay or color dodge (it depends on your taste). Putt in some dummy text. I used verdana size 11 on bold. You can copy the dummy text from lipsum . Now make a new layer and select a slightly darker gray. Just fill a part in the content box like i did. Now we are going to make the whole template ingraved in. Select the Brush Tool with a big airbrush and brush around the corners with a darker color then in the background.
10) You should have something similiar to this.
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- Create a new layer inside this layer set called "screen".
Start by creating a white color circle with ellipse tool.
Start off with making a new document sized 200 x 85 pixels.
A modern and easy to use Admin User Interface is the key to success of web applications. We are going to show you How To Create a Web Application Admin User Interface in Photoshop. So that you can easily create your own admin user interface for your web applications.
Now sit your guinea pig down, brief them so that they understand what they are trying to accomplish - i.e. "You're trying to buy a ticket to Fiji and you've arrived at this page ...", then show them the set of JPEGs or pieces of paper or the bare bones site. If it's not something that is actually functional (i.e. a set of JPGs or papers) then you produce the functionality - either by explaining what happens when they "click" somewhere or by changing to the next screen they see.
2. Next create a new layer by going to Layer > New Layer > Layer (Shift+Ctrl+N), then name the layer Bg Middle. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, create another selection at the fixed size of 778px x 155px directly below the previous one about a pixel or two a part so that a thin part of the background is still visible. Then fill the selection in with a lighter blue (#DBE4E9).
This tutorial, geared towards Photoshop novices, gives an overview of the many interfaces in Photoshop. You will practice working with the toolbox, palettes, the option bar, and tool presets.
- Change the background color to a light gray color. I used #cacaca.
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Step one focuses on the Window Control icons, top
Step 1: Begin and prepare