Create Glassy Menu Bar

Hi friends now once again i am with some new things for you as i promice you. I like glassy effects too much.so here i am with glassy top menu bar for your website. yes you can create web 2.0 style glassy menu bar for your website and when you are designing website for you clients. As this is mostly use in website design so I think every web designer should know this glassy effect. It's so simple to create glassy top menu bar for website.

Ok ok don't get bore I stop my mouth and start our tutorial as i promice you that I'll always give new tutorials here about graphic design, web design, css, html, javascript, flash. So keep visiting and don't forget to put comment so that i can improve this place to make most suitable to you.

Step1: Open Photoshop and press ctrl+N to open new document. Set value as per your website's requirement here i set widht-500 px and height-75 px resolution-72 px / inch. Fill black color in it.

Step2: Press shift+ctrl+N to create new layer. Put guide as shown in the second image below. Go to View menu and make Snap setting as given in below first image. Now press 'U' or select Ronded Rectangle Tool and make selection as shown in below second image after setting it's redius to 10px.





Step3: Fill black color in it. Go to blending options and make following settings for Gradient Overlay. After doing this click on the area highlighted with red border to edit gradient colors. Set gradient colors as given image below. You can set your own colors to match with your website's colors. This is the main portion of the glassy effect so set values carefully.



Step4: Duble click on the same layer or manually go to blending options. select Inner Glow and make settings as given below.



Step5: Now last but not list Duble click on the same layer or manually go to blending options. select Stroke and make settings as given below.



You are done now your glassy top menu bar is ready you just need to put text links in it and your result will look like below given iamge.



How simple and you can do this web 2.0 style glassy menu in just simple 5 steps. In simple 5 steps you'll get awesome output. I am sure you learn something important related to graphic design and web design.

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Create Vista Like Button With Photoshop

Hi friends,

Lets once again learn something which really helpful in graphic design and web design. Here I am with some good stuff to teach you how to make vista like button whith the help of photoshop. It is very simple and you can make vista like button with 10 simple steps, here I guess that you have basic knowledge of ph0toshop and it’s tools. So lets start.

step1: Take new document with black background and 150 pixel width and 50 pixel height.

step2: Take a Rounded Ractangle Tool and draw shape shown in the image below after putting guide both the side.

tep3: From select menu select Transform Selection and transform it as shown in below image after selecting Distort from Quad Menu.

step4: After applying transform to it fill #171717 color in it.

step5: Press Cltr+Click on layer and select the shape, Go to select > modify > contract. Put value 1 in the dialogue box open. Then after press alt+select and remove half of the selection as shown in below image.

step6: Select linear gradient one side color of gradient is same as you fill in the shape i.e. # 171717, and another side gradient color is #6b6b6b, and fill this gradient carefully. Which gives you following output.

step7: Take text layer and write something here i wrote Home. Keep Font - Arial, Size - 12, Stye - Bold, Color - #8e8d8d, You can make your own specifications for text.

step8: Upto this, this is your normal button image, now i am going to show you how to make hover button image. For that make Duplicate layer of text and give it Outer Glow from blending optons and keep glow color is #0c8d91. You’ll get following result.

step9: Now make selection as shown in below first image.and then go to select > feather, set feather value 5. Which resulting image second.

step10: Take linear gradient and set first color same as you fill in the shape i.e. #171717 and another color is as per your choice and as per your layout’s color combination, here i have used #0eb2b8 this color. now fill this gradient color carefully. Now press cltr+Click Main shape layer which shown selection of your main shape now from select menu click on the inverse and then press delete this remove unnecessary part of gradient which you just fill. This resulting in following output.

Here is your vista like button is ready.
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Glassy Button In Photoshop

Hi friends,

Now I am going to teach you simple technique of photoshop to create glassy button with simple parameters. I now that there are lots of way to create glassy button but this is simplest way to create it and impress your boss.

Lets start:

Step:1 Take New blank document 300 X 300 Pixels.And draw circle in it.

Step:2 Fill the color whatever you like most or your client like.

Step:3 Add layer and Draw the shape shown in the image below. Go to feather and put value 5 in the dialogue box.



Step:4 Fill white color linear gradient. And you will get the following result.



Step:5 Now write text in it give text color #02a4bc. For example I wrote Home in it, Select the text and select Create Warped Text option and set value as shown in image below.






Step:6 Finally keep the text layer opacity 75%. And here you got the result yes you cant believe but you, yes you created it.



Enjoy, and keep visiting this blog i'll teach you more tips and tricks of Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, CSS, Javascript etc.