Creating a Flyer in Photoshop

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ February 28th, 2006

Creating a Flyer in Photoshop

In this tutorial we’ll create a promotional flyer for a child rehabalitation clinic. Start by creating a new file and an image you want to place on the flyer.

Drag the image to main file.

Press Ctrl+Shift+U to desaturate the image.

Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Apply settings as shown.

Press Ctrl+T to transform the image.

Scale it up so that faces of the kids cover most of the flyer area.

Create a black rectangle strip at the top of the page using rectangular shape tool.

Type your text with a nice color.

Duplicate the text layer and fill the text with white color.

From filter menu select blur>>motion blur.

Apply settings as shown.

Move the white blured layer below the orange text layer. Open the kids image again and scale down. Place the image on bottom right of the flyer.

Double click the layer to open layer style window and enable stroke. Apply settings as shown.

Type your text.

Open the logo image.

Place the logo on top of the image and text.

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Creating Realistic Clouds

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ February 26th, 2006

Creating Realistic Clouds

Start by opening an image with a wide sky area.

Press Q to enable quick mask. From filter menu select render>>clouds.

From filter menu select render>>difference clouds. Press Ctrl+F, 5 times to apply the effect again.

Press Q to disable layer mask.

Create a new layer and fill the selection with white color.

Press Ctrl+T and scale down the layer vertically.

Place the layer at the top.

Select eraser tool. Erase the overlapping areas.

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Creating a Navigational Header

Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ February 24th, 2006

Creating a Navigational Header

Start by creating a new file. Draw an rectangle at the top using rectangular shape tool.

Create a line below the top rectangle.

Copy the line layer and palce it at the bottom. Create another thin line.

Create a rectangle with green color.

Create another rectangle with grey color. We’ll create buttons on this rectangle.

Open an image and place it at the right of the header.

Create a rectangle for button.

Double click the layer and enable bevel&emboss, satin and stroke. Apply settings as shown.

Create two white lines verticaly as shown that will serve as divider between three portions of the navigational header. We’ll use one portion for the logo, second one for the buttons and last one for the image.