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Sign Banner
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By Art-D !
Published on 02/23/2007
 
Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS Sign Banner
This will teach you and give you the basics how to create a sign.

Sign Banner - part 1
This will teach you and give you the basics how to create a sign.

Create a new file with the dimensions indicated here: 1024x768 px and 72 dpi. Finishing creating it, paint it in black color.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Choose then the following tool to select from the table an appropriate clich? for that you are intending to do next.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

The color should be D51717. Make a click on the right mouse?s button on the triangle?s layer and apply Free Transform selection to turn it on that angle you may see in the picture below:

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Take the next instrument to create another triangle inside of that one we already have. Its color is D7D7D7.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Sign Banner - part 2
Selecting the same instrument, it?s possible to draw a flare on the upper half of the sign.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Fill 20% on the layers.
Blending Options-Inner Glow

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Gradient?s parameters:

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Sign Banner - part 3
Create now a new layer and mark this layer and the previous one.
Click on the Merge Layers option and make use of the next instrument to erase the lowest part of the flare.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Selecting the instrument shown here , draw a fire indicator with black color.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Don?t forget to place the fire?s layer under the flare?s layer.

Fill 70% on the layers.

For your convenience now we should merge down in a group all the layers containing the indicator.

Make a copy of this new group and make use of Free Transform selection to turn it around. Then click on this figure shown here

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

Sign Banner - part 4
and apply the instrument shown here to dark out the sign?s reflection. It should have the black color.

Create Sign Banner in Photoshop CS

The final result!

View full size here.