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Website Button

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Step 1

Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop with the dimensions 200x100 pixels and a white background. Draw a rounded rectangle with a light grey color.

rounded rectangle

Step 2

Select Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow to apply the drop shadow effect. When applying the effect use the next settings:

drop shadow

Step 3

Apply the inner shadow effect on your layer. To do this select Layer > Layer Style > Inner Shadow and set the next settings in the window which appears:

inner shadow

Here is an intermediary result:

intermediary result

Step 4

Draw another rectangle, like in the next picture, with a white color and “rasterize” it. To make this step choose your layer in the Layers Tab and select Rasterize. Now you can work better on this layer:

rasterize layer

Step 5

Using the “Polygonal Lasso Tool” (find it in the Tools Tab) make a selection like in the next picture (make this selection on the last rectangle that you drew, the white rectangle):

polygonal selection

Using the DELETE key delete the selected area:

deleted area

Step 6

Select a small brush in the Tools Tab, like “Soft Rounded 45 pixels” and delete the bottom corners of the white polygon like here:

delete corner

Set the “Opacity” to 50% in the Layers Tab:

opacity change

Step 7

Draw another rectangle with a white color and place it in a position like here:

new rectangle

Set the “Opacity” of this layer to 12%, and the result should be something like this:

set opacity

Step 8

Select the layer “Shape 1” in the Layers Tab. In the Tools Tab select the Horizontal Type Tool and type a text on your button with a grey color:

text button

Step 9

Set a stroke to your text. To do this select, on the layer with the text, Layer > Layer Style > Stroke. Apply the next settings to the stroke:

stroke settings

And another intermediary result:

intermediary result

Step 10

A little bit more color on your text and that’s the result:

final result


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Tranlucent Ball

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Step 1

Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new document with a white background color. Draw a sphere in you document, using the “Ellipse Tool” (find this tool in the Tools Tab). To make the sphere symmetric hold down the SHIFT key when you are drawing the sphere:

initial sphere

Step 2

Select Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow to add shadow to your layer. Apply the next settings for this effect:

drop shadow

Step 3

Apply the “Inner Shadow” effect. To do this, select Layer > Layer Style > Inner Shadow with the next settings:

inner shadow

After these two steps the result should be something like this:

intermediary result

Step 4

Create a new sphere with a white color and “resterize” the layer which contains this sphere:

new sphere

Step 5

Make a selection on this sphere like this:

selected area

Delete the selected area and set the opacity for this layer to 25%:

layer opacity

Step 6

Duplicate the layer, resize it and rotate it, move it like below (to make these actions check the Edit options menu):

new sphere

Step 7

Duplicate the layer “Shape 1” and set the “Blending Mode”, in the Layers Tab, to “Pin Light”:

new layer

Step 8

Duplicate it again and set the “Blending Mode” to “Multiply”. Make this step again and this is the result:

new sphere

Step 9

You can now play with the details and obtain a nice translucent ball:

final ball


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Photo Manipulation

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Step 1

Open the next picture in Adobe Photoshop. Save it first on your computer.

start image

Step 2

Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop with the size 360x600 pixels. Drag the picture which you saved in this new document and place it at the bottom. Draw now a rectangle in a new layer with a light blue color like #7AB5FD; set the “blending mode” for this layer, in the Layers Tab, to “Soft Light”:

blue rectangle

Step 3

“Rasterize” the blue rectangle. To do this, right click in the Layers Tab, and select Rasterize Layer. Now, with a small brush like “Soft Rounded 30 pixels”, and delete the area which contain the shadow of the headphones:

deleted area

Step 4

Duplicate the layer “Layer 1” and delete an area like here with same brush tool:

deleted area

Add the motion blur effect on this layer. To do this select Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with the next settings:

motion blur

After these steps your result should be something like this:

intermediary result

Step 5

Select the layer “Layer 1 copy” in the Layers Tab and set the opacity to 72%; move it in the position like here:

intermediary result

Step 6

Duplicate the layer “Layer 1 copy” and apply the motion blur effect with the next settings:

motion blur

Move the layer in the position like here and set the opacity to 50%:

intermediary result

Step 7

Select the layer “Shape 1” and delete an area like in the next picture, using a “rounded soft brush 100 pixels”:

intermediary result

Step 8

Draw a rectangle, with a yellow color, above all layers, and place it lake here; set the “blending mode” to “Soft Light”:

intermediary result

Step 9

With a “Soft Rounded Brush 200 pixels” delete an area and here’s the result:

intermediary result

Now you can play with the contrast and luminosity, or lighting effect to get this:

intermediary result


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Kids Website Layout

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Step 1

In this tutorial we’ll guide through the necessary steps for creating a kids website layout with Adobe Photoshop.
Save the next pictures on your computer, if you don’t have others to complete this tutorial:

kids1

kids2

kids3

kids4

kids5

Step 2

Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop with the size 740x540 and a white background. Import the picture “kids1.jpg” in your document:

import picture

Flip the picture horizontal and place it in the position like here (to flip the picture horizontal select Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal and to move it just drag the picture in the new position):

new position

Step 3

Make a selection using the Rectangular Marquee Tool and use the CTRL+C, CTRL+V key combination to copy and paste the selected area:

selection47

copy paste

Step 4

Select Edit > Transform > Scale and transform the scale of the new layer like here:

transform selection

Drag the layer “layer 2” below the layer “Layer 1”:

drag layer

Step 5

Select the layer “Layer 1” in the Layers Tab and delete an area like in the next picture, using a brush like “Soft Rounded 100 pixels”:

deleted area

Step 6

Add a nice logo to your site:

add logo

Step 7

Make a border around the header using a brush like “Rough Round Bristle” with the size 23 pixels, and a dark red color:

around border

Step 8

Import the picture “kids3.jpg” on the scene, resize it and rotate it like here (to resize it select Edit > Transform > Scale and hold down the SHIFT key when making the transformation; to rotate it, select Edit > Transform > Rotate):

picture transformation

Step 9

Duplicate the layer which contains the border, resize it, rotate it and move it in the position like here, above the next picture (drag the layer in the Layers Tab above the layer which contains the picture):

new layer

Add the color overlay effect on the new layer; to make this, select Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay and choose a yellow color in the window that appears:

new color

Step 10

Import the picture “kids4.jpg” on the scene and repeat the step 8 and 9 (resize it and add border to this picture, but this time set the color to green):

new layer

Step 11

Repeat the step 10 again, this time for the picture “kids5.jpg” and for the picture “kids2.jpg”:

new layer

Step 12

Apply some kind of text on your categories, and a welcome text, and you have a nice layout for your kid’s website:

final picture


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