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Step 6.

Starting off with the content area, we should first make a large grey area in which we can put everything.
So make the selection, all of the width again and leaving 1 pixel at the top and 1 pixel at the bottom.

Click for larger preview.
Smooth the selection by 5 pixels - (Select > Modify > Smooth)
Now fill the selection with a light grey, I used #e0e0e0. Click below for full size.

Step 7.

With the rectangular marquee tool, make a selection about 200×400 about 10 pixels in from the grey area.
Smooth the selection by 5 pixels again and fill it with white on a new layer.

Now add in your text.
For the links I used a green and blue from the template from various places, and a basic grey for normal text.

Now create another box the same height but all of the width except 20 pixels. Smooth it and again make a new layer and fill the selection with white.

Now add in text for the updates area aswell.

(Not much :P)
Now use the same method to add a footer. My footer was 40 pixels in height. Click below for full size.

That’s pretty much all for this tutorial, you can always expand on the idea.

If you need to, you can download the PSD file from here. You can click the image above to see a large view of our completed template.
Thanks for reading.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 4:23 am in Basics, Graphic Effects.