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Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure
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By Art-D !
Published on 03/1/2007
 
Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure
This detailed tutorial will take you through the steps to creating a modern and stylish website header for Snowboard Club in Photoshop.

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 1
This detailed tutorial will take you through the steps to creating a modern and stylish website header for Snowboard Club in Photoshop.

Open a new file, having 778x750 px and 72 dpi.

The next instrument will help us to represent the primary layer, designed for the site?s header to be.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Drop Shadow

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Inner Glow

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 2
Gradient's parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Select the previous instrument to represent one more layer, reserved for the site?s header.
The instruments shown here and will be helpful in making the necessary corrections on the layer?s shapes.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Gradient?s parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 3
Now we have to make two copies of this recently made layer.
Later apply Free Transform selection to turn the copies around and make each copy smaller than they are.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Find now several photos with the corresponding topic and cut them out to fill the necessary places on the site?s header.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Take this tool to create now a thin stripe, situated on the upper part of the site?s header.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Fill 0% on the layers.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Gradient?s parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 4
Choose the next instrument and try to draw an element looking like a clamp.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Gradient?s parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Stroke

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 5
Gradient?s parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Make five copies of the recently made layer and place them out the way it is shown in the next picture.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Insert the auxiliary clamps now.

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Insert also the site?s name, but be attentive on the demands introduced in the tables from below:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

(snowboard)

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 6
Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

(club)

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

(winter adventure)

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Drop Shadow

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Select again the instrument to represent the menu?s button situated on the site?s header.
Using the next tool and holding the shift button, accentuate the tops on the picture and move them like it is shown in the next picture:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 7
Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Bevel and Emboss

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Gradient?s parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Stroke

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 8
Gradient?s parameters:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Make four copies of the new represented layer and make the copies look exactly the next picture indicates it:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Write now the titles for each button. You have the demands for the inscription in the next table:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Drop Shadow

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 9
The next instrument will be helpful in drawing a triangle colored in 000A6A

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Copy the triangle?s layer and place the copy on each button:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Introduce the advertising slogan also, keeping the demands inserted in these tables:

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

(snowboarders)

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

(made here)

Burton Snowboard Club Header - Winter Adventure - part 10
Blending Options-Drop Shadow

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

Create Burton Snowboard Club Header in Photoshop CS

The site?s header is finished!

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