Create a Ribbon Navigation

Hey all my blogger fans out there! hope ya’ll doing good, from this tutorial i am going to show you how to create a awesome ribbon style navigation. Well ribbons are always good on templates they have a vibe of there own. so lets get started

Step 01

As always open up Photoshop, create a new document and then take out the rectangle tool(U) and draw a nice rectangle like this. This is going to be our main ribbon so you decide the size of it

Time to add some styles to our rectangle to make it look like a real ribbon. We all know how to add styles to a layer don’t we? open up layer styles by simply double clicking the layer on layer pallet or just right click and select blending options and apply these following effects

Now you should have something like this

We are going to make our main ribbon look awesome, well here’s how to do that take out the rectangle tool(U) again and draw a rectangle inside our main ribbon. Something like this

So now just like last time apply these following effects to this rectangle as well

Step 02

Now we are going to give our ribbon a 3D stand out effect. We are going to use a simple trick for that, draw a small rectangle like this on our ribbon, make sure you use a dark blue color like (001c3e)

Now here’s the trick part on the edit menu to to transform and select perspective, edit>transform>perspective now just click on the center tab of the right side of the rectangle and slide it down, something like this

After you get that right, send it behind the main ribbon we made. Just send it below the main ribbon layer in layer pallet

Now do the same to the other side as well and you should have something like this

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Step 03

Now we are going to create the hold for our main ribbon. in order to do that again draw a rectangle like this behind the main ribbon.

now we need our ribbon fold to look awesome don’t we? so apply this following gradient to make it more stylish

After you are done with that, you have to draw another rectangle inside that just like what we did in the main ribbon

Apply these following effects to it after you get that part done

Now drop its layer opacity down to 50%

Now you should have a awesome ribbon like this

Step 04 (Optional)

Since its a navigation ribbon we are going to create a place for logo, well how to do that is select the eclipse tool and draw a circle like this on the middle of our ribbon

And apply these following effects to it

After you are done with the first circle, you have to draw another circle inside the last one something like this

And apply following effects to the second circle

When you are done with that draw a 3rd circle inside the second circle and apply these effects to it

There you go here’s how our final ribbon navigation looks like

Create an Image Slider Using Photoshop

What’s up all my blog fellows?  Hope everything is going super awesome with yah guys. This time I’m going to show you how to create a nice image slider using Photoshop. This tutorial is specially going to be for web designers others can do this too always good to learn na, so let’s get things cooking.

Step 01

Of cause you have to open up Photoshop and create a nice document unless you are planing to draw this on a paper well the size is totally up to you, you can mange it to the slider size you want. Background color is totally up to you also, I’m using gray as mine coz y’all know I’m a huge gray fan

Take out the rectangle tool (U) and draw four rectangles, you should make something like following

This slider is really easy to make. we are going to apply the same style to all four rectangles. in order to do that open up the blending options of any rectangle and apply these following effects.

After you apply those effect to one rectangle right click on it in the layer pallet and select the copy layer style option and paste that style to other three rectangles as well. This will help ya all the trouble of apply the style individually. Oky so when u go through all of that you should get something like this

Step 02- Creating The Pagination and Navigation

Time to create the pagination buttons. Take the Circle tool out (U) and draw a small circle below our slider, make sure you have (8e8e8e) selected in the color pallet. This is for the selected pagination button, you should draw something like this

After that draw two more circles right next to what we drew before. This time draw them in a slight darker gray i recommend using (5b5b5b). when you got that part done, using the same method we used before apply all three circles this following style

Now you should get a sweet pagination like this

Now we need navigation to control our awesome slider. Draw nice arrow heads  on both sides of the slider facing left and right something like this following image

Time to make them look cool you know how to do that right ? yup styling! apply these following effects to them

Now you should have awesome navigation like this

Step 03- Finishing The Slider

If you have followed all those steps now you should have a image slider that looks like this

Now its time for you to load in your images, I’m using images of Up movie here because I really love that movie ok then the next thing I’m going to do is totally optional. I’m going to add a shadow for our thumbnails well its easy i think its worth putting the effort coz its going to make our slider look awesome. Take the Ellipse tool out (U), Select black color and draw a ellipse looks like this

Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and apply as following

Drop the shadow layers opacity down to 75% and duplicate the shadow,move those shadow layer behind the small thumbnails. you can change the shadow size to match yours requirement. So here you go now you created a awesome slider that looks like this

Hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial, don’t forget to leave comments and feedback see ya again with a new tutorial

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How To Create a Coffee Cup Using Photoshop

Hey all our blogger pals, hope ya’ll doing good. We all love coffee don’t we? From this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a coffee cup in Photoshop

Step 01

Open up Photoshop and create a new document background is totally your choice. Select the Rectangle tool (U) and draw a nice circle for our saucer, something that looks like this.

And apply these following effects to our saucer circle

After you apply those effect,you should get something like this

Step 02

Time to create our cup. Just like in last step take the rectangle tool (U) and draw a circle inside the saucer we made in last step something looks like this.

Time to make it look like a real cup, apply these following effects to our cup shape.

Now we got something like this

Step 03

Ok so we made the cup and saucer time to make the handle. You can make this shape by drawing a rounded rectangle and cutting it half or you can use the pen tool. You should draw something like this

Now apply these following effects to make it look realistic.

Now you should have a lovely coffee cup looks like this

There you go we made a lovely looking coffee cup. So now all we got to do is fill our cup with coffee. In order to do that draw a circle in side our cup and apply this following gradient to it

Here’s how the final result looks like

Photoshop Hotkey Map

Hey All ma Blogger pals im created a hotkey map for our Photoshop pals. In this map I have included every Photoshop tool with their hotkey. Its always handy to know hotkeys when it comes to Photoshop it helps you to work faster and if I know better it makes you look cool too so enjoy

Create a cool slider in Photoshop

Hope ya’ll doing good. This tutorial is for web designers. I’m going to show you how to create a cool slider in few easy steps. Let’s get started

Step 01

Open up Photoshop blah! Blah! Blah! Create new document. Take out the rounded rectangle tool(U) and draw a track for our slider bar. Something like this

Apply the following effects on our track. You can take the blending options out simply double clicking on the layer on the layer pallet and apply these following effects

After that, you should have something like this

Step 02

Time to create the progress bar for our slider same as last time take out the rounded rectangle tool. color choice is totally yours im using (19c2c8) here. draw the progress bar inside the track we made. just like this

After you get that part done apply these following effects to make our bar look cool.

Step 03

Lets create the handle for our slider. get the ellipse tool (U) and draw a circle like this. Don’t worry about the color we are going to apply a gradient to it.

Apply these following effects after you get that part done.

Here’s how the final result looks like

Create a Sticker Effect using Photoshop in 5 seconds

We all love stickers don’t we? So I’m going to teach you how to create a sticker effect in 5 seconds

Load your image in to Photoshop. I’m using my android batman image here which is top ranked on Google you can download it from our blog. The effect goes well if you use your image without the background, it doesn’t really matter though. Okay enough chit chats let’s get to the work. Here’s what I’m using

Easy thing, open up blending options and apply these following effects

Now here’s how the final result looks like

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How to create a clean and neat add to cart button

Hey my blogger pals hope ya’ll doing good. Im going to teach ya guys how to create add to cart button today. This can be really handy for e commerce designers. So let’s get started.

Step 01

First thing first, open up our favorite Photoshop and create a new document. Size is totally up to you I’m using a 800 X 600 px to give you a good look. When you are done with that take the rounded rectangle tool out (U) and draw rounded rectangle to match your button size and make sure u have the black color selected. Something like this

 After you get that part done you have to drop the layer fill of that rounded rectangle down to 7% just like this

Now you got something like this

Step 02

Time to create the button base for our add to cart button. Take out the rounded rectangle tool out again and draw a rounded rectangle inside the last one we drew. Color is totally up to you. You can use any light color as I’m using (a7cf5f) here. If you got that right you should have something like this.

Time to add the effects to our button base so our button look neat and awesome. In order to do that you have to take out the blending options of our base layer by simply double clicking on it on the layer pallet or just right click and go to blending options. When you get the blending options out apply the following effects to it.

 Now you got yourself a nice and clean button like this

Step 03

Time to type in our text. Take out the typing tool out (T) and type “Add to cart”. Just make sure you use a nice bold font or not. Its totally up to you. Make sure you keep it to the left because we need some space on the right side. Make sure you use the white color. Now you should get something looks like this.

 Time to get some effects to our text. Same ways like the last time take out the blending option and apply these following effects.

 Step 04

Time to create separators for the amount. For that take out the rectangle tool out (U) and draw a small rectangle like this don’t worry about the color we are going to apply a gradient to it.

Now apply these following effects to it

 Just to make the separator look cool we are going to draw another rectangle like this

 After you get that apply these following effects to it

Step 05

It’s time to finish our button with the typing in the price. Select a dark green color to match out button as I’m using (678338) here. Just type in the amount you want to put there. Something like this

 So there you go we created a nice add to cart button.

Step 06

 Well we are creating a button so it should have a hover also. It’s pretty simple you just have to do some changes to our previous button base. Here are the following changes

 There you go, here are the results

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Create a Polaroid image design

Hey ya’ll I’m going to show you how to create a nice and cool Polaroid design. Well this is a really unique designing style that can be really useful when it comes to creative designing. Everyone thinks that this is a hard design to make, it’s really easily actually. From this tutorial I’m going to show you how to do this in simple easy steps so let’s get started.

Step 01

Create a new document in Photoshop. Size is totally up to you it depends on what kind a design you are creating. I’m going to create my one in 500 x 800 because I’m creating a poster like something. You can be creative with the background I’m a gray fan so I’m using a light gray color for my design.

Step 02

It’s time to create the Polaroid now to do that take the rectangle tool out (U) and draw a nice rectangle you know a Polaroid shape one Don’t really worry about the color because we are going to use a gradient over it. You should draw something like this.

Its time apply some effects to our shape. As you know in order to do that we got to go to the blending options of that layer. To do  that take out the blending option of that layer by simply double clicking on it on the layer patter or right click on the layer, click on the blending option tab. After you get that out apply the following effects to it.

Here is the gradient of the above picture

Now you should have something like this

Step 03

Now let’s draw the image area in our Polaroid. Same thing again take out the rectangle tool (U) select the color black and draw a rectangle in the Polaroid we drew before. You should have something like this when you are done with that.

Step 04

This is the Fun Part. Now first thing we going do here is we are going to make our shape layers in to one layer. Most of us know how to do that, just select both layer in layer pallet and then right click and click on the merge layers in the popup menu.

When you get this done we will have our Polaroid in one single layer. Now the fun begins we have to duplicate out Polaroid layer and make a mess of Polaroids. how we duplicate the Polaroids? that’s easy  press an arrow key while holding down the Alt key. In that way you can make all the copies you want. Now have fun throw the Polaroids here and there, rotate em just make a huge mess like this.

Now we got turn all those layers in to a single layer just like we did before. Select all the Polaroid layers right click and merge layer.

Step 05

Now select all the black parts of those Polaroids. For that take the Magic Wand Tool (W) and start clicking on the black areas while holding the Shift key on your keyboard. Make sure you select all the black areas and only them.  After you get that done copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) all those black areas. It will make a new layer like this.

Now load your favorite image in to your document. I’m using a mega mind poster because I’m n love with that movie you can import your favorite image and make sure you cover the whole canvas, like this

When you are ready to get blown off, do this. While making sure that your image layer is above all the layers in layer pallet, move your courser between the two layers in the layer pallet, our image and black area copy that is. Press the Alt key on your keyboard while you are there it will make a cursor like this.

When you get that click and you should get something like this.

So here’s how the final image looks like Its awesome i know