Photoshop Tutorial – Apple Navigation menu

Learn how to create the newest Apple navigation bar that is being used at their site. 1. Start by opening a new 500px * 50px file. 2. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, set a Fixed Size of 480px width and 35px height, and make a selection inside the canvas 3. Now, go to Select -> Modify -> Smooth and apply 3px radius. Create a new layer and Fill the selection with any color 4. Apply this layer styles to...

Photoshop Tutorial – Clean Two-Level Navigation

Step 1 First off, we need to make a new document; I’ve made a relatively small one for the purpose of this tutorial (600x420px) but yours will probably be for a web design (1000px or so wide). To make the background less boring I’ve just added in some clouds (foreground and background colours: #33556e and #1e2a38) and applied a motion blur; both are accessible through the Filter menu. Step 2 Now we’ll make...

Photoshop Tutorial – Navigation Bar with Rollover Buttons

Learn how to create a sleek rollover Navigation Bar. In this tutorial you will learn how to create buttons in Photoshop, export the buttons and add rollover effects in Dreamweaver. Rollover the buttons below to see the final effect. Tutorial Details Program: Photoshop CS5, Dreamweaver CS5 Estimated Completion Time: 25 Minutes Now we have everything we need let’s begin. Step 1:- First we’ll design the main...

Photoshop Tutorial – Clear professional navigation bar

Make a Professional navigation bar, using some layer styles. Really easy to do and a good looking outcome. 1. Fist of all make a rectangle using the Rounded Rectangle Tool with 15px for Radius. 2. Open the Layer Styles and add it these styles, starting by an Inner Shadow. 3. Inner Glow 4. Gradient Overlay: #212121 to #383838 5. Stroke: #050505 6. And you should have something like this: 7. Then while holding...

Photoshop Tutorial – How to Create Sleek Button Design in Photoshop

Today we are going to create a sleek button design in Photoshop; this is very useful on websites that has call to action. We will use bright colors and dark background to add the effect. Bright button colors attracts attention to the readers, that’s why it is best to use on call to action buttons. This is best for membership sites and E-commerce websites that the user need to sign up or buy a product. Here is the...

Photoshop Tutorial – Blue Glassy Nav Bar

Create a Navigation Bar for your web site with a glassy look.     1. Start by opening a new 460px by 70px file 2. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and make a rectangle with any color. Right click over the layer and select Rasterize Layer 3. Now apply these layer styles to this layer - Inner Glow - Gradient Overlay: #96bfcc, #bfdde7 to #ffffff - Stroke: #96bbcb 4. This is what we have so far 5. Select...

Photoshop Tutorial – Dark Navigation Bar

Create an amazing Dark Navigation Bar in this full tutorial that explains the 3 states of the nav bar, on hold, on click and hover.     1. Start by opening a new 580 * 100px file. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and make a small rectangle in a new layer and with any color. Right click over the layer and select Rasterize Layer. 2. Apply the following layer styles to it. Inner Glow: #67686c 3. Gradient...

Photoshop Tutorial – Web 2.0 Nav Bar

1. Start by opening a new 600 * 140px file. Now select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and make a small rectangle like in the image below 2. Apply these layer styles to it: Inner Glow 3. Gradient Overlay: #5e80a3 ,#839db8 and #b8c7d6 4. Stroke: #5e80a3 5. This is how it should look 6. Now write your links using Segoe 14 pt #ffffff 7. Apple this layer styles to the text links: Stroke: #53769a 8. Create a new layer,...

Photoshop Tutorial – Vista Styled Button

Step 1 Like usual we are going to start off with filling the background with a radial gradient from a light grey to a darker grey. Light grey: #3e3d3d. Dark grey: #151515. Step 2 Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer) and using the rounded rectangle tool make a fixed shape of 300 by 50 pixels in the middle of the document. Right click the shape and click make selection. Select the gradient tool and set...

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 canvas. Step...

Photoshop Tutorial – Menu bar

A Photoshop tutorial to create a menu bar Step 1. Start off by making a new Photoshop document. Choose the rounded rectangle tool, set the radius to 12 pixels, and create a wide rounded recntalge, as shown below, It doesn’t matter what colour it is because we’ll be creating a gradient...

Photoshop Tutorial – White Navigation

Step 1. First of all, make a new Photoshop document, with dimensions of 44×220 and a black background. Create a selection using the elliptical marquee tool and fill it with grey (C1C1C1) on a new layer. Feather (select > feather) and contract (Select > Modify > Contract) the selection by 5 and then fill the selection with white. a) b) Step 2. Next, create a...