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Aqua Menu

Author: SweDesignz.com Author's URL: www.SweDesignz.com More by this author

This is the finished product from this tutorial:

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I am going to show step by step how to do it.

First, create a new layer, call it "body", with the rectangular marquee tool (M), make a selection and fill it with black.

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Now let's apply some styles to it.

Right click of the mouse on the body layer, and choose "Blending Options..."

Apply the following styles:

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Your image should look like this now.

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Now you will have to create a "scanlines" effect. The following image is only illustrative.

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How to make those scanlines? To make them, zoom in your image in a white area (Zoom Tool, press Z), and fill with black 4 pixels in a diagonal, just like the picture.

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Now, turn off, (by clicking on the small eye on the left of it) the Background white layer, so the background is transparent now.

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Select the area around the 4 painted pixels, like the picture above, and go to Edit > Define Pattern, choose a nice name to your pattern.

Now ctrl+click the "body" layer to get it's selection. Create a new layer above it, call it "scanlines" and when filling the layer, Edit > Fill, choose "Pattern", and choose your new pattern.

Change the scanline layer mode to overlay and it's opacity to 21%

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Your image is almost done now!

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You just have to add some text (Horizontal type tool, press T).

I used the Blue Highway font, size 21, "smooth", and with the color #447494.

We are done!

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I hope that you enjoyed the tutorial.