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!
Learn how to create a clean and simple wordpress design that can attract anyone's eyes! Start working by creating a new file (File>New), having 1200x1000 px and 72 dpi. Next we?ll select the Rectangle Tool (U) to represent the basis for the site?s header. Set the next indicated parameters by making a mouse click on the layer we work with on the layers? panel. Blending Options>Gradient Overlay Gradient?s parameters: Create a new layer and select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to mark out the demonstrated below zone which must be painted after that with white color, choosing for this operation the Paint Bucket Tool (G) Apply for this layer the selection from here - Filter>Noise>Add Noise The layer?s parameters: Opacity 50%, Fill 3% Blending mode-Dissolve Create a new layer above the last made one and put them both together. Press Ctrl button to mark out the corresponding layers and then press Ctrl+E. Make a mouse click on the same layer on the bottom part of the layers? panel on Add a Mask solution. Then choose the Brush Tool (B) (Opacity 20%) of black color to erase a little the background of the header. Now it?s time to insert several rays on the site?s header, applying the Custom Shape Tool (U) and the color #000E11 The layer?s parameters: Opacity 50%, Fill 0% Blending Options>Gradient Overlay Gradient?s parameters: Make a mouse click on the same layer on the bottom part of the layers? panel on Add a Mask solution. Select the standard brush of black color to erase the rays on their middle part. Create a new layer where we?ll mark out the indicated zone under the site?s header. The marked zone may be filled with the color #000E11, applying the Paint Bucket Tool (G). Using the Rectangle Tool (U), try to put some limits on the bottom part. The layer?s color is #001118 The layer?s parameters: Blending Options>Inner Shadow Using the Rectangle Tool (U), try to draw the panel reserved for the menu's buttons, situated on the top part of the site?s header. The layer?s parameters: Fill 0% Blending Options>Gradient Overlay Gradient?s parameters:
3. Select your Font as Times New Roman to match your template. (Sites should have not more then 2 or 3 different fonts.) Set the size to 48 pt, Set the color to blue. Type in the title.
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Learn how to create a unique and dark template, perfect for gaming or clan websites. In this tutorial we will work extensively with layer styles to enhance certain parts of our layout to give it that gaming feel. We???ll also work with the path tool to create special shapes as well as using the brush tool to blend in images.
In our previous article - 8 Ideas, Techniques and Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit, I mentioned that it's a good idea to have a library of styles to draw on.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a corporate wordpress styled layout. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.
This is a tutorial to show you how to create a magazine web layout. We also discuss about what we need to pay attention and what we have to ignore. There are a few things we need to pay attention when designing a magazine web layout.
7. The next step is a fairly simple one. Basically, just add circles, patterns and lines all over! You can make your own, do them with the brush tool or even download some - This isn't a major step, i just like to add it because it looks like the banner graphic is more heavy. After that, you might want to add some scan lines. For this type of simple, light, uncomplexed layout - scanlines everywhere look really cool
2. Starting off with the new rims you would like to add to your car. Using the Pen Tool (press P) carefully select around the wheel. Here's my selection. 3. Now go to the Paths pallete, right click on your Work Path, and select Make Selection with 0 radius and anti-aliased checked. 4. It should select your wheel, press Ctrl + x to cut it out. 5. Now switch back to your car picture, and press Ctrl + v to paste it down. Move it off to the side for now, and switch back to the original layer with the car on it. Zoom into 500-600%. 6. Using the Pen Tool again, cut out the old wheel. Finish your path. Goto the Paths palette, right click on the Work Path, and select Make Selection as before. 7. This time press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the selection. Now it's time to make your new wheel fit! Make sure the wheel layer is behind the layer with the car on it. And move it roughly on top of the hole. 8. If your new wheel is clearly too big like mine is, with the wheel layer selected hit Ctrl + T (to transform it). Now hold down shift to maintain proportions and make your wheel smaller. 9. Still doesn't look right? Using either the Pen Tool as mentioned before or more simply, the Lasso tool cut out some more space around the wheel cavity, and press delete. This will enable more of your new wheel to show. 10. Finally, if your wheel does not look correct with the back one, then use Edit > Transform > Skew and/or Edit > Transform > Perspective. Play around with those until you find something that fits. 11. And here is my finished car with the new front rim! I had it looking good, but the more i played with it, the worse it got. Anyway, enjoy!
8. Of course you can adjust everything, this is a screenshot of another outcome with a few differences� A menu can be added under the content box! I realize this is not easy to slice but that isn't needed if you add text in flash� And there you go, you have a dj site or actually� A store that sells bedrooms could make better use of this design!
9) On the layer with the right side of the capsule, select Drop Shadow, apply the same settings as above except change the angle to 0 degrees 10) We are done with the outer capsule and now, we only have two things to do to the inner capsule. Select the small capsule (should be a shape layer) and go to the Layer Styles (little f). Click on Gradient Overlay. This time, apply the blue gradient as downloaded from above. These settings should be entered:
The menu will be simple. Use the 3 picture. First will be the box. Open the image, drag it into the layout and Go to Layer-> Layer Style-> Drop Shadow. Set everything like before, but choose black, not that grey. Add the options name below.
Step 23 Now hide all layers except the background layer then select the background layer (this is the layer you put the background color or gradient on, NOT the background layer created when you made the new document!). Use the single column marquee tool to select one column of vertical pixels. Copy and Paste into a new image. The dimensions should be 1 X 800. Use the zoom tool to zoom in and find the very bottom pixel. Use the eyedropper tool to get the color value of this pixel. This will be used as your background color in the CSS code, so write it down or store it in a document somewhere. Now to keep things the same, you should create a new folder somewhere on your computer. Call this folder web_page. Inside the web_page folder, create another folder called images (all lowercase). Save the background file into the images folder, and name it bg.gif. use File > Save For Web to keep your files to a minimum size. Be sure that the .gif option is selected so that your images will work with the HTML/CSS given at the end of this tutorial.
I've also add the search box and login boxes just for an example on how it would look when finished. I've also added some console logos which i got from google images.
Design Tip: Notice that I have the chair facing inward toward the center of the page, as apposed to outward? Try to position images and elements in your layouts so that they drive the readers eye into your content, and not away from it.
This is a very powerful tutorial right here. One of the reason's I'm producing it is because I couldn't find anywhere online that would actually show me how to do this (create and publish an HTML ezine), so I had to figure it out by myself. Now I'm sharing this HTML knowledge with you. It's really quite simple now that I look at it but it was so frustrating to not have known and to find no one that would just teach it. It's a very important skill to know in today's digital day and age.
6. Click on the new state button and the "over state" is created. This is will appear on the webpage when the mouse moves over the image. Change its appearance by making the top layer visible. Each state will reflect what is visible in the layers palette.
In the dialog box, enter the target file size you need your graphic to be and click OK to have Photoshop optimize the graphic to fit your target file size.
Now using some cloud brushes add a few clouds inside the rectangle, set the layers blending mode to linear dodge. Then add a few more elements I.E. logo and dj name and/or maybe a picture of yourself dj'ing.
Let's find a good image of your subject. For me, I chose to use a Nikon D80 DSLR camera. I searched Nikon D80 on Google, and found a few good stock photos. I'm creating an A4 size advert. That's the standard size of paper if you didn't know and is 210mm x 297mm.
If you did this on the background layer and you don't want to keep it locked, just drag it to the new layer icon to duplicate it and then drag the original to the trash.
5. Now when your image should be selected create a new layer and fill it with #333333, and that�s it for the design of the contentbox, this is what I end up with.
Hey there! So today we're back in business with a new web layout tutorial. This time we're gonna be working on a nice and colourful layout, moving on from the dark themed layouts. This one looks nice and fresh and could easily theme a little blog or personal site.
11. Here we will make the Navigation. Go to the Layer's Palette and create a new layer set by clicking the file folder at the bottom. Name it "Navigation." All your navigation layers will be put in the file folder by just drag-and-drop. Jump to the Full Navigation tutorial to create the navigation. If you have already done this, just import it into the layout. Also, make sure the navigation system is on the left side with ample space around it indicated by the image below.
Open up your futuristic navigation bar that you previously created "here". Create a new layer under your navigation label it background. Select the colors #a3adb1 and #ffffff. Now select the gradient tool and drag a reflected gradient over your canvas.
Leafing through the templates at TemplateMonster.com, I stumbled across a rather nice example of a bookmark and understood that I had found material for my next tutorial. You will need a complete set of Grunge brushes. A set of Grunge brushes can be downloaded from the Internet and placed in Photoshop. Also, you will need several texture samples.
Now goto google images or your favourite stock photo site and find yourself a picture of a women in some knickers, once you have found her select your favourite cutting tool and cut out. Copy & paste into your layout and place on the left hand side above your rectangle layer.. Heres mine.
Merge the 2 layers together and duplicate it as many times as needed to accommodate for the amount of links you have. Also, make sure you align them with your text.
I also threw in a shopping cart icon. You can draw your own, or get an account with: WebsiteIcons.com. It's a great free services with 1,000's of website icons any serious designer shouldn't be without.
Step 6 Now you want to make sure the file size is as small as possible. To do this, go to File>Save for Web. A box will pop up. Be sure to select JPEG as the type, and adjust the quality settings so that you have the lowest quality where the image still looks good. Medium happened to be fine for this image.
This technique is used for many applications. It looks very clean and makes a nice addition to any website. To see it in action, check out a recent design on mine: Chapel of Frag.
Alright, how's it going? Today we're gonna be creating ourselves a Sony PSP Ready Website Layout. Okay, kinda wordy. So what does this mean? Well it's not rocket science really, it's a web layout which is ready for the PSP.
This concludes the tutorial. What you'd want to do here is continue to add small details to the layout to make it your own. Here's what I ended up with after adding text, and a few minor details:
When you have your picture open it up in photoshop and copy/paste it onto your layout canvas, your going to need to resize it to fit, remove the white background and shave it a little bit. Firstly press "ctrl + T" to resize it, select your desired cutting tool and cut away the background. Once you have done that you will need to cut off the handle. Here how my amp looks.
Start off my selecting some of your designs, and open them all up in Photoshop. Then create a new document (200X120px) in size. Paste one of your designs into this new document and fit a nice looking area of the design into the available canvas space. Then create a new 200X120px document and repeat with a second design. Repeat this step until you have a sufficient number of images to represent your work.
1. Create a new document (800*600). We'll design a universal template in this tutorial, it can be used for almost everything because it's so simple and standard. the colors blue, white and beige are the main colors in this design but of course everything is up to you!
Now you can add some arrows on your layout, To add some arrows create a new layer, Zoom the documet to 1600 pixels, and with the Pencil tool ( set the brush size to 1 pixel) , and make some pixel art drawing
Now you have a pretty chunky object, so lets make it smooth. Deselect (CTRL + D) and Gaussian Blur (FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR) your object. Blur it about 10 px.
Lets also add a reflection under our software box and CD, if you don't no how to do reflections then i suggest you do "my reflections tutorial". Lets also add some text and titles to sell our product.
As you can see i have a rounded edge at the bottom of my rectangle, to do this make a curve with the pen tool and delete the selection. Alternatively leave it as it is. Add your website text and slogan in your blue rectangle.
Step 8: As your layout really lacks colour, you can bring it out in your icons. I feel pixel art really works for this, use the tutorials on Blueshout, or search for on google. I'm going to use a bird for my icons, no idea why, but still. As this isn't a Pixel art tutorial, I won't step you though it, but use mine as a guide, take it into photoshop to get the colours:
Fill the rectangle with the color #20242d, add a 1 pixel stroke to the rectangle but dont do it the normal way by double clicking the layer style, instead goto "edit > stroke" use the color #20242d. Next add a layer mask to the rectangle, then drag a linear gradient over it, make sure background and forground are set to black and white. You have something like this.
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Explaning this step again. You just have to select the area of the image with the Rectangular Marquee Tool, make new images and copy and paste it in the new image. After you select-copy-create image-paste go to File -> Save for Web and save it in your images folder. I mean, if your site is located in C:webdoglayout you have to make a new folder named "images", C:webdoglayoutimages.
The best size for a webpage layout would be (in my opinion) 720x540, because doing this makes even 800X600 folk able to have room to see about your site. You may be thinking "Jeez that's going to look tiny on my screen" this isn't true! The layout can be done fine, by using stretching of images (which I will write a tutorial on after this one)
The three boxes will be featured posts on our wordpress layout, and the big wallpaper will be the big image version of it. On the boxes we just made add some example post content.
Now your footer is in place, lets use the rest of the space for our main wordpress posts. Using the rounded rectangle tool with a radius of 20pixels draw out a rectangle make it quite long as we will be doing some masking in a moment. Fill your rectangle with the color #0b1116 and add a 1 pixel stroke using the color #15222c. Now we need to merge the styles with the layer, create a new layer above your rectangle, HIDE ALL the layers in your layers window apart from the empty one and the rounded rectangle then goto "layer > merge visable" your empty layer an rounded rectangle layer should now be merged into a single layer with the layer styles applied. You cant edit the layer styles at this point. Now add a layer mask to your rectangle then drag a linear gradient over to the top, hopefully the bottom bit of the rounded rectangle should disappear and you should be left with something like this.
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[19]-Now select Text Tool & then create different Text with different sizes. Thanks for read this Photoshop Tutorial & the Final Output of this tutorial is shown below
[20] Thanks for reading, I hope this photoshop tutorial has taught you few photoshop tricks and techniques and you can use them in your website design project. Your final image will look like this.
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1. Create a new document (800*600). We'll design a universal template in this tutorial, it can be used for almost everything because it's so simple and standard. the colors blue, white and beige are the main colors in this design but ofcourse everything is up to you! 2. Start filling the background with #d0c2a0 using your paint bucket tool.
This tutorial will teach you how to design a cool grungy website layout. As well as walking you through the various Photoshop techniques it outlines general design principles and provides pointers for your own grunge designs.
Cool Photography Layout Category: Photoshop In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to design a simple blue layout with Photoshop by combining shapes and layer styles. Written by James Hewett Views:
Step 6: Now out header and menu is done. Now we need to make a place where we can put out body. Create a new layer and select the rounded rectangle shape and draw it below the menu. This is what I got. This is also an important step. You can make the layout darker or lighter. This is what I did.
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Tutorial 1 : Creating a unique website header Tutorial 2 : Designing your website layout in Photoshop Tutorial 3 : Slicing your layout in Photoshop Tutorial 4 : Creating your web site in Dreamweaver
This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a colorful layout to showcase your portfolio. You can see the result of the tutorial in the image below. Click image to enlarge
For the text in the blue section, I've used Helvetica Neue, 55 Roman, 18pt for the top part and Helvetica Neue, 75 Bold, 26pt. If you don't have this font, it's not that important so just use something similar.
As it is, this website will be tall enough to be a web page, but not wide enough. To solve this problem, you'll need to make a "sliver". A sliver is my term for a thin piece of an image that can be repeated indefinitely to fill an area of variable size.
In this tutorial I will be teaching you how to create this complete, festive Christmas-themed web layout! Note: This tutorial may be more well-suited for intermediate Photoshop users, as it does require quite a bit of Photoshop knowledge and work! Please feel free to try it though, if you're unable to get it right, just try it over again a few times.
In this article I will be discussing the TrustRank and how you can promote your website on a different level, building trust around your website and investing in what really matters.
Now go back to the original layout psd and zoom right in on the gray gradient bar and make a selection similar to below (make sure it's 1 pixel wide) the same as below.
Professional Web Layouts (Part 2) Today, were going to find some tricks on making pro layouts. So open photoshop. i suggest a 720 x 500 image. Make the background a dark grey.Make a new layer. Make a selection from top to bottom, covering almost the full image on the sides and fill that in with a brighter color than your previous. Next, on that layer with the brighter color, go to it's blending options and add a 1 pixel black stroke. When you got that done, make a new layer and a new selection at the very top, this part is going to be the menu. So make shure the selection is not too small but also not to big. Then, fill that in with a bright grey to a medium grey gradient. also add a black 1px stroke to that layout. Almost forgot, make the selection so it's right next to both black lines, so it's touching the black lines, but it's not over or past them. Make shure that the gradient is a medium gray at the top, and gets brighter at the bottom. When you got the 1 pixel stroke, your going to open up the layer styles again. and add a gradient overlay like below. Ok, this gradient is a bit tricky. Your going to have to make a white transparent color at the left. Then, on the opposite side, your going to make another white color, this time, at 100 % opacity, move it a little to the left until you get something like what i had done. then, to make the white sharper, add some more transparency father to the left of the white part... If you never understand these gradeints your never gonna make cool layouts. Anyways, when you add a gradient like mine, your image should look a bit shiny or plastic-ish. When you got that layer style done, save it by clicking on the "new style" button. Now you can add yout text or anything like that. Unlike my other layout tutorial, this one is more complex, so more things to add. So now, create a new layer, and make a selection at the right of the menu, fill that in with a very dark grey(almost black) to a medium grey gradient. Then, add that same style to that layer. Then, add a new layer under the 2 menu layers. Fill it in with another medium grey color, this is the logo part so dont make it too small or too big, but whatever you like. next, add a layer at the top and make a thin selection somewhere at the bottom of your banner. and fill it in with a gradient like your menu, a medium grey to a dark grey. then, use that same style you used for the menu (you might have to change the gradient overlay a bit, if you do, make a new style ...
Professional Web Layouts (Part 1) IMPORTANT I suggest reading the step, full step, then look at my image. Rather than to read a little and do it, then keep reading and doing more. Cuz u might mess up, like make a seletion to big or something. I'm gonna teach you how to make a pro layout with mainly layer styles, selections, and gradients. So open up a new Image, I suggest 720 x 400 pixels. Fill In the background with a crimson red color. Then make a new layer. Make a selection, almost covering the whole image from top to bottom and fill it in with white. Then, make a new layer and a new selection from top to bottom at the edge of your wite part. Then fill that in with a gradient. Deselect it. Then right-click that layer and select Blending options. Check the stroke option and use this setting. See, your making a border with that gradient. Now adding the same border to the other side, drag that layer into the "new layer" button, so that the layer will be duplicated. Move your new layer to the other side of white space. Then, press ctrl + t (free transform), and righ click and choose flip horizontical. Then, create a new layer. Make a selection from one border to the other and fill it in with a bright grey. Then, just like before, add a stroke option exactly the same, a 1px black stroke. But were going to add to it, also add a drop shadow with these settings That's the banner space. You can add stuff to make your banner. Well, moving on, Make a new layer but this time move the layer right under you banner layer. Then, on that layer, add a new selection kinda thin, but big enough for text to fit because this is going to be your menu space. After making the selection, fill it in with a dull red. and add a black, 1px stroke like before. Make shure the selection is from one the black line on one side to the other black line. So, just add your menu while your at it. *** BUT REMEMBER *** The type of fonts you use also shows how professional you can be. And what colors you use. So i Suggest a think white text with a black 1px outline. OK, moving on again. Create a new layer and make a selection covering enough space for a sub-menu, or a news update section, or something like that, and fill it in with a brigh grey. Then, add a 1px black stroke and also a drop shadow, and an inner shadow like below. When you got that layer style finished, click the "new style" and name your style and press ok. Now, create a new layer and a new selection covering almost the rest of the white area, this will be the content section. Fill it in with the same color you used for the menu section. and use your newly made style on it. And that's basicly the whole layout. But with a better banner. the whole layout looks better. Then slicing it up and converting to html is up to you to learn
Professional Web Layouts (Part 3) My most complex of the three tutorials so far. This is beyond the other two. Instead of just telling you what to do, i will show various options on what to do. So of course, making it very long. Ok, so open a new image with a white background. The size should be around 750 x 400 or so. Create a new layer and make a selection from top to bottom. And covering most of the width, fill it in with a bright grey. Around the hex code of E8E8E8. Then deselect it pressing ctrl + d. Now, right click the layer and choose blending options. Check the stroke option and make a 1px stroke with a color of 4D5A6A Create a new layer. Get the selection tool and make a selection like below. Dont Make it too big. But make shure that the selection is touching the blue line, but not overlapping it. If your not that good, you should zoom in and make shure its like mine. Then, once you got the selection right, fill it in with the same blue color (4D5A6A). Open the blending options for that layer, and exactly like before, add a 1px stroke with a blue stroke of 4D5A6A. Now, for a nice effect, zoom in the to max, get out your pencil tool, set it at 1px, and change the dark blue to a light blue color (around 66788E). Then add a 2px line in the bar that you made. Just make a strait line by dragging a line across the dark blue area. To make the line strait, hold shift. Then, add another line right on top of that one. Now, you should make a pattern with horizontical scanlines. Just make the pattern, stop after the tutorial tells you to close the image without saving. Ctrl + click on your layer with the blue bar (to bring up it's selection). Create a new layer, and add the pattern you made to that selection by going to Edit -> Fill, and choose the pattern you made. Right-click on the scan lines layer and choose blending options, choose gradient overlay. Make a gradient where one side of the gradient is the same color as the bar (4D5A6A). And on the other side, make the color lighter. Or, if you dont like that, you can also switch the colors, you can move the color's to the opposite sides, or move one half way or so. Whatever you like. Here's what i'll choose. Create another new layer. But move it below your blue bar's layer. then make a selection not too tall (make shure it's touching, not overlapping, the blue lines on the outside), and fill it in with a very bright grey. Then right click on it's layer, choose stroke, add a 1px blue stroke like before. But...
On the top center of your template add a 'Why Choose Us' section. First draw a red rectangle in a new layer then add the section title in a new text layer. Below the red rectangle add the features.
On the top center of your template add a 'Why Choose Us' section. First draw a red rectangle in a new layer then add the section title in a new text layer. Below the red rectangle add the features.
In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to create a unique and professional hosting template. This tutorial goes through the steps to create a website header, footer and content area.
Welcome to this tutorial! In this tutorial i will explain you how to create a Hosting template using Photoshop CS 3. This is what we will be creating today:
Create a new document 800�800 pixels, fill the background with the color #c4c5c0. Select the color #374254 and the rectangular marquee tool, draw a small rectangle across the canvas at the top.
Open Photoshop and create a new 88 x 31px document. As a beginning you have to choose a good background. The background color should match or coordinate with the colors of your website. In our case it's #0C7A94. Now, fill the background with this color.
Create a new document 850�800, fill your background layer with the color #272727. Create a new layer, select the rectangular marquee tool and draw a thin rectangle at the top of you canvas, fill with the color #121212.
Create a new document 850 x 1200 pixels with a white background, double click your background layer, press ok when the box pops up. This has now unlocked your background layer, double click your background layer again and add this layer style.
First off, create a new document 900 x 1430 pixels. Select the paint bucket tool and fill your background with the color #eae5cf. Select the color #443825 and apply to your forground, then select the color #2c2518 and apply as your background. Select the rectangular marquee tool and create a big rectangle across the canvas. Make the rectangle about 300 pixels in height. Select the gradient tool with a radial gradient, start from in the middle of the rectangle and drag upwards. You should have something like this.
Create a new document with the dimensions 850�1012, set the colors #0b3349 as your forground and #156894 as your background select the gradient tool with a linear gradient. On your background layer begin to drag the gradient starting from the top to about a quarter of the way down your canvas.
Create a new document 850�1300 pixels, fill your background layer with the color black. Select the rectangular marquee tool and create two rectangles on top of each other using the colors #2e2e2e and #202020.
Create a new document 900�1000 fill your background with the color #292929. Find yourself a picture of a film reel, i found one on google quite easily. Add you film reel to your canvas and remove the background from it using your favourite cutting tool.
Create a new document 900 x 1200 pixels, fill your background layer using the bucket tool with the color #363636. Select the rounded rectangle tool, change the radius to 15 pixels. (see image below).