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Step 4 - Thumbnails Area

Now for this section, which will be under the navigation buttons, you’ll need some photos of Evangeline Lilly. Download them below.
• Waterfall Shower
• Summer Fun
• LOST Wallpaper
Now, let’s start our thumbnail holders. First create a new layer. Now make a selection of about 100 x 80 pixels underneath the navigation text.

Fill this selection with the same color as we’ve been using (#eae5d7), duplicate that layer, move it over to the right so there’s only 10 pixels inbetween the two, then repeat once more.

In the layer’s palette near the bottom, click the layer mask button then do some grunge brushing in the layer mask.

The brush I used mostly comes with Photoshop, it’s called Rough Round Bristle.
Now you need to add in your thumbnails. Follow these simple steps:
1) Open Evangeline Lilly photos, resize to much smaller size. Move into template document.
2) Make selection inside of image, sized 96 x 76 pixels.
3) Invert the selection (Select > Inverse), press delete.
4) Move thumbnail into place (inside of borders).
Hopefully, you’ll have something that looks like this:

For the first layer I lowered the Fill to 60% and applied this Inner Glow.

For the other thumbnail layers I used the exact same settings, except I used a high Fill opacity. 85% to be exact.

Lastly, add in some text underneath the thumbnails.

The font I used was Tahoma, 12pt, #eae5d7 & #ff8908.

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Posted on Thursday, January 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pm in Graphic Effects, Photo Effects.