San Diego Chargers Website Header

Start off by creating a new Photoshop document (File > New) and make it size 800 x 200. Fill it with a nice Charger blue (#002C74). You should have this so far:

Now I went on Google and found a picture of Qualcomm Stadium which is the stadium that the Chargers play on, to use it as a faded background. This is the picture.

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Download it, and paste it into the picture. Set its Opacity to somewhere around 40-50%. You should now have something similar to this:

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Now let's go on to add the first football player. I went on Google again and looked for a picture of Ladainian Tomlinson, and found this:

Again copy and paste it into the document, but this time you have to resize, and cut out to make it fit in nicely. This is what you should have:

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Now duplicate the player's layer, and set its Opacity to about 25%. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to about 3. Move the duplicated layer behind the original layer, and move it to the left a bit, to make it look like so:

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Now do the same steps you did with LaDainian Tomlinson with this image of Shawne Merriman.

You should end up with this:

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and then this...

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I then went on and added some nice text, I used the font "4990810" which can be downloaded here. I used a yellow color (#F1CA2D) for the text, and added the following effects:

Stroke:

Gradient Overlay:

Your final result should look like this:

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