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1. Preparing the Canvas/Background

First create a new document of any size. I used 400x340 because I'm not going to be making a complete template.

I also added a light grey gradient into the background.

2. Making the Shape

Get the Rectangular Marquee Tool and make a Set-Sized Selection of 140x140 pixels somewhere on the canvas.

3. Filling the Shape

With the selection still active, make sure you're on a new layer and fill it with a radial gradient.

I used the colors #3e94d4 and #336fc1.

I also applied a White (#FFFFFF) Stroke to the main layer.

4. Highlights

Start by selecting the main layer again (Hold CTRL and Click the layer thumbnail)

Contract the selection by 4 pixels by going to Select > Modify > Contract and inputting 4.

With the Gradient Tool drag a White to Transparent gradient from the top to the bottom like so:

You should be left with a result like so:

Next with the Pen Tool make a curvy path like so:

With the Pen Tool still selected, right click the path and click Make Selection, use the default options.

Create a new layer and again with the Gradient Tool make a White to Transparent gradient from the top to the bottom..

Change the layer mode for this layer to Soft Light and lower the opacity if needed, I didn't need to.

5. Details

I also added a low-opacity icon in the left corner area. Note: The icons I used are from TemplateMonster.com

Added some text, I used Tahoma, 11PT, #FFFFFF, with this Drop Shadow.

I then duplicated all of the layers, moved them over so there's about 10 pixels space between each of them then changed the colors.

To change the colors edit the gradient for the first layer, then edit the Drop Shadow for the text.

That's all for this tutorial, folks. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed.

You can download the PSD file from here.