Simple Navigation Bar
Simple Navigation Bar
This tutorial with guide you through how to make a simple navigation bar for your website. Your result should be similar to this:
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| 1. |
Make a new document. For this tutorial i'm using 800x50 with a resolution of 72 pixels/inch with Colour Mode set to RGB Colour 8 bit. |
| 2. | Press Ctrl + A to select the whole image, then Shift + Ctrl + N to create a new layer. Then press D to reset the colours to Black and White. Press Shift + F5 to bring up the fill screen. Select Foreground Colour and press OK. You should now have a black rectangle filling up your whole image. |
| 3. | Now right click on Layer 1 in the Layers window. If you can't see this window press F7. From the menu select Blending Options. |
| 4. | In the Blending Options window, tick the Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Bevel and Emboss, Contour, Colour Overlay and Stroke boxes |
| 5. |
Use these settings for the Drop Shadow: |
| 6. |
Use these settings for the Inner Shadow: |
| 7. |
Use these settings for the Inner Glow |
| 8. |
Use these settings for the Bevel and Emboss |
| 9. |
Use these settings for the Contour To change the Contour double click the little picture to get the Contour Editor window then change itto look like this: |
| 10. |
Use these settings for the Colour Overlay |
| 11. |
Use these settings for the Stroke |
| 12. |
Then press OK to close the Blending Options window, you should have something which looks like this: |
| 13. |
Then using the Vertical Single Column Marquee Tool |
| 14. |
Type the name of your first link, for this tutorial I will use Home as the first link then use the marquee tool again to delete another column and continue this for the whole navigation bar with your different links |
