Creating Business Style Template Design
There’re a lot of resources that provide free website templates in Internet. One of them - FreeTemplatesOnline.com Here you can download plenty of free and premium templates. However, if this is a free (or premium) template, somebody else can also download it, and use it for his website. That’s why I’ve made up my mind to make a tutorial with the detailed description of creating a template from the very beginning. I hope it allows you to create your own templates in future, or to make some changes in the existing ones.
You can see the result of my work - this template. It took me 8 hours to draw this template. You wiil be able to recreate this template in 1 up to 2 hours using my instructions and possessing the basic experience of work in Photoshop.
A Realistic Stamp
In this article I’ll show you how to create a realistic stamp.
Step 1.
Create a new 450X300 pixels document.
Compose a stamp text and rasterize this layer.
Now create a new layer and choose a Rectangular Marquee Tool, make a selection and fill it with the blue colour.
Then apply Select > Modify > Contract (5 Pixels) and press DELETE, apply Select > Deselect.
Press Ctrl+E to combine two layers.
Step 2.
Apply Filter > Sketch > Torn Edges with the following settings:
Step 3.
Choose an Erazer Tool with a diameter 9 pixels and opacity 60% and make an arbitrary cuts.
Step 4.
Now apply Edit > Free Transform (Ctrl+T) and turn it to the right or to the left.
And that’s it.
Hi-Tech Menu
In this Photoshop tutorial we will teach you how to create a hi-tech menu for your website. For educational purposes we created only the part of the menu. Other parts (cells) of the menu can be created by copying existing layers.
Step 1. Create a 300×100 document. Press ‘D’ to reset the foreground and background colours to default values.
Step 2. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to draw a rectangle, then create a new layer (Layer 1) and fill it with the colour #0074FF. You should have a picture similar to the below:
Step 3. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to draw a small rectangle inside the rectangle you have drawn in Step 2. Create a new layer (Layer 2) and set the foreground colour to #00C5FF.
Step 4. Now click ‘Gradient Tool‘ in the ‘Tools‘ bar, select ‘Foreground to Transparent‘ gradient, and draw from left-bottom to right-top. Now click ‘Move Tool‘ in the ‘Tools‘ bar and check ‘Show Bounding Box‘ in the ‘Options‘ bar. Now set the ‘Horizontal Skew‘ to 30. You will have the picture similar to this:
Step 5. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to draw a smaller rectangle. Create a new layer (Layer 3), now click ‘Gradient Tool‘ and draw from right-bottom to left-top. Now click ‘Move Tool‘ and set the ‘Horizontal Skew‘ to 30. Now move both layers (Layer 2 and Layer 3) to have the picture like shown below:
Step 6. Hide Layer 2 and Layer 3. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to draw a new rectangle (Layer 4). Click ‘Gradient Tool‘, select ‘Radial Gradient‘ and draw from the center of the rectangle to the right. Now right click the layer and select ‘Blending Options‘. Go to ‘Gradient Overlay‘ and set the following parameters:
Opacity - 80%; Gradient - ‘Foreground to Background’; Style - ‘Linear’; Angle - 90; Scale - 117%. Hit ‘Enter‘.
You will have something like this:
Step 7. Click the ‘Move Tool‘ and make sure that ‘Bounding Box‘ in the ‘Options‘ bar is checked. Now you need to drag the bounding rectangle edges to the right or to the bottom to have something like this:
Step 8. Unhide Layer 2 and Layer 3. Now move all layers, dublicate some of them if necessary to give them a look of the menu.
Step 9. Add your text to the menu. We used Dutch801 XBd BT, Extra Bold, 14 pt, colour #DBE8F8, Horizontally Scale - 150% for the text. Below is the part of the hi-tech menu we got at the end.
Cyclone in Photoshop 7
In this article I’ll show you how to make a splendid effect: a view on a cyclone from the space.
Step 1.
Create a new 800X600 pixels document with the blue background.
Apply Filter > Render > Clouds and then Filter > Distort > ZigZag with the following settings:
Step 2.
Apply Filter > Distort > Twirl with the “Angle 999″ and then Filter > Distort > Shear and try to set the line like in the following picture:
Step 3.
Now, apply Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap with the following settings: Highlight Strength = 17; Detail = 15; Smoothness = 10:
Step 4.
Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (with Radius = 2 pixels) and then apply Filter > Distort > Ocean Ripple with the following settings: Ripple Size = 15; Ripple Magnitude = 3.
Step 5.
Apply Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast with the following settings: Brightness = -25; Contrast = +52. And that’s it.
A Human Eye
In this photoshop tutorial you will see how to create a truly looking human eye.
Step 1.
Create a new 400X400 pixels document with the white background. Choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a round selection (holding Shift). Create a new layer (Layer 1) and fill it by the white colour (apply Edit > Fill…White). Then apply Select > Deselect.
Step 2.
Apply Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow and use the following settings:
Step 3.
Create a new layer (Layer 2). Choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a round selection (holding Shift) in the “eye” center. Press “D” to resert colours and then press “X“. Choose the Radial Gradient Tool and fill the selection from the center to the border.
Step 4.
Create a new layer (Layer 3) and fill it by the white colour. Apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with the following settings: Amount->400%, Distrubution->Uniform, Monochromatic->OFF.
Step 5.
Choose the Smudge Tool (Diameter->21px) and spread the noise from the center to the border. Apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation with the following settings: Hue->31, Saturation->93, Lightness->-35 and set the Blending Mode to “Overlay“.
Step 6.
Create a new layer (Layer 4). Choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a round selection (holding Shift) in the center. Then choose the Pencil Tool and draw 2 different points. And that’s it.
