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.
