Photoshop Tutorial – Wooden Button

This tutorial will show you how to make a simple button in photoshop with some basic effects Step 1: Create a new canvas of about 800×800 pixels with white as background color, select Rectangle Tool(U), right click on its symbol and select “Rounded Rectangle Tool”  Step 2: Draw a rounded rectangle on your canvas, you can use any color you like for your rectangle  Step 3: Now apply some blending...

Photoshop Tutorial – Glossy Website Button

This tutorial will teach you a step by step “how to create a glossy website button”. Open your Adobe Photoshop ——————————————————————– 1. Click “File” and click...

Photoshop Tutorial – Glassy navigation tab

Preview: Glass Container Tab. Step one: Start with a large black canvas and make a new layer set titled Glass Container Tab in your layers window. In your tools window choose rounded rectangle tool. Set the radius setting of your rounded rectangle to 4 pixels and check anti-aliased. In a new layer draw a 172 x 26 pixels, #525252 rounded rectangle. With this layer add the following layer styles: Inner...

Photoshop Tutorial – Windows 7 Inspired Navigation

Hello, welcome to another tutorial by hv-designs. In todays tutorial il be showing you how to replicate the windows 7 taskbar, only this taskbar will be a navigation bar for a website. In another tutorial il be showing you how to code it.   Lets get started! Creating The Background Create a new document 600×400 pixels, you dont need a massive sized document for this tutorial, feel free to do so if you want to....

Photoshop Tutorial – Blue on Black Navigation Bar

Blue on Black Navigation Bar Photoshop Tutorial Step 1 Firstly, create a new document – the size I’ve used is 540 by 220 pixels. Now for the background I’ve filled it with a black colour. To do this go Edit > Fill with the colour #0d0d0d. Step 2 Secondly, we’ll be making the background for the navigation buttons to go inside. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer) and...

Photoshop Tutorial – Clean Navigation menu

Step 1. Start of with a new document 300×300 pixels with a purple background. Then create a new layer, and using the rounded rectangle tool create a shape like below using a darker gray colour. Step 2. Using the rectangle marquee tool create a selection like below: Grab the burn tool with the settings below and start brushing over the selection: Brush more on the left part: Then grab the dodge tool, remove...

Photoshop Tutorial – Nature inspired navigation menu

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a nature inspired navigation menu sitting on grass for a website. Nature inspired navigation menu Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop Version: CS5 Difficulty: Hard Estimated Completion Time: 60 minutes Final preview: Stock Images This tutorial uses free stock images and brushes: Dirt texture: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1095376 Grass...

Photoshop Tutorial – Classic navigation menu

Step 1. Start off with a new document sized 500×80. Fill it with a cream colour. Create a new layer and using the rectangular tool with the colour code below create a shape: Step 2. Add to the new created shape a Inner Glow: This is what it should look like: Step 3. Use the rounded rectangular tool on a new layer create a shape like below using the same colour as the background. Grab the Burn tool with the...

Photoshop Tutorial – High Detailed Plastic Navigation Bar

Final Result Preview Step 1 Let’s start with creating the background for the navigation bar. The background is going to be bluish; the color will be alike with the color of your oncoming menu. Create a new document sized 800×259px with background color (#8caab8). Select foreground color (#e1e8eb), create a New Layer and draw linear gradient (Foreground to Transparent) from top to the bottom of the...

Photoshop Tutorial – Clean White Navigation Bar

Simplicity is the key to beautiful web layouts. Learn how to draw a beautiful navigation bar in Photoshop. Preview of Final Results   Step 1 To start off with, create a new document, for the purpose of this tutorial I have chosen 500 by 200 pixels. Fill the background with a radial gradient from a medium-dark grey to a darker grey. You can do this by selecting the gradient tool from the tool box and...

Photoshop Tutorial – Globe Button for Your Website

I have a new one for you. Hope it will be useful in your new design. Let’s begin! Make a new document with the resolution 500×300 for this tutorial and fill this canvas with white color. Then select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 30 px) and draw the next shape using the color of #d61d23. After that apply following layer styles to this layer: • Inner Shadow • Gradient Overlay Your button...

Photoshop Tutorial – Design Studio Header

This will be your final result 1. First thing we need to do is create a new document. I started with a size of 1000×216. 2. What we want to do next is to add a gradient to our background layer. To do so, right click your background layer and then input the following blending options 3. Next we want to use our rectangle marquee tool to make a selection similar to the following and fill it with...