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3.

Now you should get another one of the wallpapers and copy it into your document. Resize the wallpaper (CTRL+T) to a suitable size then delete the top and bottom edges.

Using a large, soft brush, erase away the left edge of this wallpaper so the two wallpapers blend as seamlessly as possible.

Once more, using the remaining wallpaper copy it onto the canvas and resize to a suitable size. Delete the edges then erase away the left edges so that they blend as well as possible.

4.

Now to make some final tweaks to the header. Start of by making a new Brightness/Contrast layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast…) using these settings. Now for a Curves layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves…) using these settings.

That simply gave it a bit more depth.
I finished the header off by adding in the text (Impact, 48pt, Outer Glow, Gradient Overlay) then a shine/highlight at the top of the header.

(Click for fullview.)

5.

Now we’ll get to work on the navigation bar. If you have your layer already made, please apply the following layer styles:

(To go into the Blending Options, right-click the layer and click Blending Options)
1. Inner Shadow
2. Bevel and Emboss
3. Gradient Overlay
4. Pattern Overlay
   To use this as a pattern, first download this image and make it a pattern (Edit > Define Pattern) and it will show up in your patterns.

and now (if you did everything correctly) you should have a navigation bar that looks like this:

Pretty nice, eh?

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Posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 10:16 pm in Graphic Effects, Text Effects.