In this step by step tutorial you will learn how to create a colorful layout for Design Bureau.

Open a new file that would have 766x700 px and 72 dpi. It must be painted in black.



Then you should select the next tool and create the lowest layer designed for the menu?s button of the site.



Blending Options-Gradient Overlay



Gradient?s parameters:



Blending Options-Stroke

Gradient?s parameters:



Copy this new made layer three times and place them the way it is indicated in the picture, but don?t forget to change the parameters for each of the new copy.



Blending Options-Gradient Overlay (for the red one)



Gradient?s parameters:



Blending Options-Stroke

Gradient?s parameters:



Blending Options-Gradient Overlay (for the green one)



Gradient?s parameters:



Blending Options-Stroke



Gradient?s parameters:

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay (for the blue one)



Gradient?s parameters:



Blending Options-Stroke



Gradient?s parameters:



Using the same instrument applied before, it?s possible to draw a flare of white color, the same way it is shown below:

Fill 10% on the layers
Copy the new made layer three times again and place them the same way it is demonstrated in the next image:



Select now the next instrument and represent a ring. Start with the outside edges, then click on the Alt button and erase the inside zone.





Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient?s parameters:



Make three copies of the new represented layer and place everything the same way it is shown in the next picture.



Mark out the ring of one button and copy the layer. Click on the Alt button and apply in the same time the next shown tool to erase the unnecessary parts.
Use the parameters shown below:





Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient?s parameters:



Copy the ring?s flare three times for those three buttons left.



Insert now the titles for the buttons of the site?s menu:





Blending Options-Drop Shadow

Insert the site?s name after that, keeping the demands from the tables shown next step:



(Design)



(Bureau)



(The best creative ideas)



Blending Options-Drop Shadow

The last feature includes representing a stripe out of dots. It?s possible to do that, using the next instrument .
First create the dots and then represent the shadows of them.





The final result!

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