Techy navigation design

Techy navigation design

go to the ‘fx’ icon from the bottom of the layers box and click on blending options.

you need to add the following effects with the exact same values as you see in the images:

outer glow:

outer glow values

stroke:

stroke values

result till now should be like this:

result till now

next step is to open a new layer (SHIFT+CTRL+N), choose the elliptical marquee tool and make a new ellipse selection like below:

elliptical marquee tool

elliptical selection in photoshop

choose the gradient tool. again, make sure that you have those default values like below:

gradient top bar

one click on the small gradient icon and copy the next values as is.

gradient values

in the new layer you have opened, draw a straight line with the gradient tool like the following image

gradient tool photoshop

after you’re done with this, select those 2 layers by hold on CTRL and click once on each of the layers on the layers window. then, right click, duplicate the layers and then move it to the right with about 10px separator space. do this step twice (or more if you want more pages).

buttons result

back to the pattern layer, select the pattern layer, choose the eraser tool, change the mode to pencil from the top bar and change the brush to soft round 33px.

eraser tool in photoshop

then, just erase the parts of the buttons.

erase brush

result at this point

last thing you should do is adding the pages title.

and you’re done with this photoshop tutorial. now you know how to make a techy style navigation design in photoshop.

Here’s my final result:

final result - techy navigation

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11 Responses to “Techy navigation design”

wow!
really nice navigation bar design!
well-done.

Comment by shahar on January 11, 2008 @3:00 pm

that’s cool and awesone eh?!

by the way, where’s tutorial for the pattern? anybody? i don’t have it in my photoshop folder… can anybody give me pattern tutorial? coz i have to…

Comment by Shaun on January 21, 2008 @9:04 am

This is what I posted earlier in another tutorial. I use CS3 and don`t have either, but I found in Adobe Help “Pattern Maker”. Is it this? Do we have to make first to use it?

Comment by Adam on January 22, 2008 @6:50 am

Adam- you don’t need to create the pattern first but if you don’t find one, you can create one.
it’s not that hard for the pattern we used here in this tutorial..

Comment by TutorialsHot Admin on January 22, 2008 @7:24 am

Ok.. so now you have created that for a website.
how do you actually put it in there

Comment by Steven on February 6, 2008 @6:21 pm

Steven- after this navigation bar design is done you need to code it using photoshop slices or making it manual.
Hope you understand.., Dvir.

Comment by TutorialsHot Admin on February 7, 2008 @10:00 am

Hi, great tutorial BTW!
I have a problem however… the pattern is not erasing! LOL.
Any ideas why?

Comment by Ivan on February 9, 2008 @10:05 am

Ivan- it’s a known problem.
look at the foreground \ background colors icon on the tools bar. you have 2 way arrow small icon.
one click on it and try again. it should be OK.

Comment by TutorialsHot Admin on February 9, 2008 @10:09 am

wow. that is great tutorial, step by step n detail. before this i follow many tutorial but it not work like what in the tutorial. is it bcoz CS3 different than previous version photoshop?

Comment by truzoids on April 23, 2008 @11:32 am

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