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Create Web Site Menu with Icons

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Open a new file (File>New) that would have 770x700 px and 72 dpi. Select after that the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to paint the file with this color #494949.

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Draw now a thin black stripe on the lowest part of the background. The operation can be made with the Rectangle Tool (U).

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Represent now the first layer of the button, situated on the site's menu, using the same instrument, but a different color - #D3D3D3

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Copy out six times the last layer and select the Free Transform option to place the copies the way you may see on the next picture.

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In the upper picture there are inserted the colors' codes.

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Create a new layer and choose the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent the primary layer for the button's icon. But make a kind of indention on the left side.

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The layer's parameters:

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

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Gradient's parameters:

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Using the previous instrument, try to represent a circle. Firstly we need to pick up the Ellipse Tool (U) to draw the outside edges and then press the Alt button to cut out an opening in the circle.

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The layer's parameters:

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

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Gradient's parameters:

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Blending Options>Stroke

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The next layer should be made with the last instrument too, colored in #757575

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Press on the Alt button and make then a mouse's click between the circle's layers and the new last made one for the layer to be applied in the circle's limits.

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Select now the usual Custom Shape Tool (U) to choose from the next table the appropriate Shape, the way it is indicated below.

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Press the Alt button and select in the same time the Rectangle Tool (U) to erase the elements we don't need.

Create Web Site Menu with Icons