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Designing an All Purpose Web Navigation Header


Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.

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Ctrl+Click to get the selection. Contract the selection by 2 pixels. Create a new layer. Apply Black to white gradient.

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Change layer mode to "Hard Light" and opacity to 50% for this layer.

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Duplicate the layer. Move it a few pixels upwards. Change the layer mode to "Screen" from the layer palette.

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Similarly create more buttons.

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Similarly create a big rounded rectangle and repeat the steps for this rectangle too.

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Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

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Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

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Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+Alt+G to create a clipping mask.

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Insert company name, logo and link names as shown in the image below.

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Insert any image and place it over the big rectangle. Play around with the layer modes.

Designing an All Purpose Web Navigation Header Tutorial: Final Result



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