Design Studio Layout

 By Matthew Heidenreich  This will be your final result 1. The first thing we want to do is open up Photoshop and create a new document with the dimensions of 1024×998. 2. Next lets go ahead and change our background color. Using your Paint Bucket Tool fill your background layer with #CCD8E1 3. Now we want to start off by creating the banner in our header. Using your Rectangle Tool create a rectangle similar to the following 4. Now right click your rectangles layer and choose blending options from the drop down menu and insert the following 5. Next we want to add a little ‘shine’ to the top of our banner. To do so make...

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Folded Text Effect

There are a couple of nice “folded” text effect tutorials out there, but this tutorial takes a slightly different approach to the concept. We’ll be creating a folded text, and a simple pattern to make it look like it’s cut out from a notebook. The letter “O” will be used to illustrate the concept, as it needs a little bit extra work done to it. Notes: * the software used in this tutorial is Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended * the size of the final result image is 1024 * 768 * you might want to check the Basix Page to see some useful topics on dealing with Photoshop basics, such as loading palettes and some shortcuts. Resources: * Folded...

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