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Letterpress Text Effect Using Photoshop and CSS. How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop. In this Photoshop web design tutorial, you’ll learn, step-by-step, how to create a stunning and clean web layout. You’ll be using some basic to intermediate-level techniques to build your very own sleek "Web 2.0" style web design that uses the 960 Grid System. This is a two-part series that will teach you how to create the layout in Photoshop, and then how to convert it to a standards-compliant (X)HTML web design. Final Result Clicking on the image below will take you to the full-scale version of the web layout that we’ll be designing in this tutorial. Setting up the document 1 Create a new document in Photoshop with the dimensions 1200px x 1050px.

Creating the background 2 Now, we will be creating the background. Placing the Grid System into the document 3 On a new layer, create a 960px wide grid – 12 bars, each bar at 60px wide. Making containers for the logo and navigation items 4 We will now be creating the containers for the logo and the navigation items. 9 Duplicate the separator. Tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures. Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch - Nettuts+ Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn't know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too.

While browsing the web, I saw so many nice looking websites and wished I had the skills to create such designs. Today I can and I'm going to teach you how to do so too! Essentially, it requires a few Photoshop skills and an eye for detail. The designs I create are nearly all based on the 960 Grid System. Before we open our PSD grid template and begin drawing, we first need to define the structure of our site. After we've defined our site structure we're ready to move on.

Now pick the Rectangle Tool and draw in a rectangle the full canvas width and about 80px high. Create a new layer above the rectangle and set Layer mode to Overlay. New layer. With the Rectangle tool selected, draw in a big box around 500px underneath the top rectangle. Now we are going to create the same light effect as described in Step 5. See how subtle the color change is? Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images - Psdtuts+

Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Video Tutorial Our video editor Gavin Steele has created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Image Assets Smoker - from my personal collectionSkull - thanks to Martin Land for thatSmoke 1, Smoke 2, Smoke 3, and Smoke 4 Step 1 Open up Smoker image. Step 2 Open the Skull image and draw a path around it using the Pen Tool (set to Paths not Shape Layers).

Make a selection from your Path (Command-click the Path icon on the Paths palette) and copy and paste it into the working document. Step 3 Step 4 Change the "CIG_SMOKE" Layer Blending Mode to Screen. Step 5.