Thursday, October 29, 2009

Navigation tuturial


Step 1; Change your foreground color to black.
Step 2; Add a new layer.
Step 3; Select the rounded retangle tool.
Step 4; In the options bar click on the fill pixels icon.( the third icon)
Step 5; In the options bar increase the radius to 20.
Step 6; Draw your rounded corner box.
Step 7; Selet the retangular marquee toll.
Step 8; Draw a retangular selection around the bottom 1/4 of your rounded retangular.
Step 9; Press the delete key.
Step 10: Deselect
Step 11; Switch to the gradient tool.
Step 12; Click on thr arrow to bring up the gradient thumbnail.
Step 13; Double click on the left color stop under the editor bar.
Step 14; Choose 40% black. Click ok>
Step 15; Double click on the right color stop. bu this time choose white. Click OK.
Step 16; In the layers palette, turn on " lock transparent Pixels"( its the first icon on the left)
Step 17: Using the gradient you created, draw a gradient from the top of your shape to the bottom. ( use the shift)
Step 18; From your layer styles choose bevel and emboss.
Step 19; For style choose Inner bevel, set the angle to 126, depth to 2 and size to 4. Raise the highlight opacity to 100% . and lower the shadow opacity to 50%.( don't click OK yet.)
Step 20; In he list of styles on the left hand side click on the name outer glow.
Step 21; Set the blend mode to normal, then click on the color swatch, choose 30% . black as your aloow color. Increase the spread to 25%. Click OK.
Step 22; Hold the apple key and in the layers palette \, click the layer that contains the tab.
Step 23; Select.......modify......contract. Enter 5. Click OK.
Step 24: Select the marquee tool. Hold the option key then draw a rectangle starting from the bottom of your current selection to just a little below the top.
Step 25; Add a new layer.
Step 26; Press x. Then option+delete.
Step 27; Deselect
Step 28: filter menu, blur, Gaussian blur. enter 1.5 pixels, Click OK.
Step 29: Lower the opacity to 70%.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Gel Button Tutorial


Step 1:
Add a new layer
Step 2:
Set your foreground color to light blue.
Step 3:
Select the rounded rectangle tool in your options bar set the radius to 40 pixels.
Step 4:
In the options bar.
Click on the third icon from the left
(fill pixels)
Step 5:
Draw your shape on your stage.
Step 6:
Apple+click on your shape layer.
Step 7:
Add a new layer.
Step 8:
Go under the select menu, under modify, and choose contract.
Enter 20 pixels. Click Ok.
Step 9:
Press the letter ''d'' then the letter ''x'' to set your foreground to white.
Step 10:
Press Option+Delete.
Step 11:
Press Apple+D.
Step 12:
Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, choose Gausian Blur.
When dialog box appears enter 10.
Click OK.
Step 13:
Select the Move tool.
Step 14:
Using the Arrows on the keyboard, move your blurry wite layer down to the bottom of the pill shape.
Step 15:
Hold down the apple key and click on the pill
layer on your layers palette.
Step 16:
Press Shift+Apple+I to inverse your selection.
Step 17:
Press the delete key.
Step 18:
Press Shift+Apple+I.
Step 19:
Create a new layer.
Step 20: Set your foreground color to a darker blue than your original blue.
Step 21:
Fill your selection your selection by pressing Option+Delete.
Step 22:
Deselect by pressing Apple+D
Step 23:
Hold down the apple key and click once on the blurry layer in your layers palette.
( Be sure not to change layers. You should still be on the dark blue pill layer.)
Step 24:
Press Delete to knock a soft hole out of the blue pill shape.
Step 25:
Select the rectangular marquee tool.
Step 26:
Place your mouse inside the selected area and drag the selection upward a little bit.
Tap the delete key.
Step 27:
Repeat step 26 one or two more times until you're almost to the top of the pill (make sure to stop just short of the top)
Step 28:
Deselect by pressing Apple+D.
Step 29:
Apple+Click on your pill layer to put a selection around it.
Step 30:
Create a new layer.
Step 31:
Go under the select menu, under Modify choose contract.
Enter 20 pixels. Click OK.
Step 32:
Press the letter ''d'' then ''x'' to set your foreground to white.
Step 33:
Select the gradient tool.
In the options bar, Click on the down facing arrow next to the gradient thumbnail.
Choose the second gradient (foreground to transparent)
Step 34:
Drag this gradient from the top of your selection to the bottom.
Step 35:
Deselect.
Step 36:
Select the Move tool.
Using the arrows on the keyboard, move your white gradient layer upward to where it's almost at the top,
but leave a gap of dark blue between your white gradient and the top of the pill. (This creates the highlight area of the pill)
Step 37:
Press Apple+T
Step 38:
Go under the Edit menu, under Transform choose Perspective.
Step 39:;
Grab the left bottom corner, and click and drag outward just a bit to add a perspective effect.
Step 40:
Press Enter to let Photoshop know you're done.
Step 41:
Hide your background layer.
Merge Visible.
Step 42:
Choose drop shadow.
In the dialog box, click the color swatch.
Step 43:
Click on a blue section of your pill shape to colorize the shadow.
Step 44:
Lower the Opacity to 50%, set the angle to 90 degrees, distance to 45, size to 32, turn off use Global Light.
Click OK to complete the effect.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Metal Button Tutorial


Step 1: Create a ne layer. Draw a circular selection using the Elliptical Marquee tool.
Step 2: Press "d" then "x". Select the gradient tool.
Step 3: In the options bar, click on the down facing arrow next to the Gradient thumbnail. Choose foreground to Background gradient.
Step 4: Close the picker and in the options bar click on the radial gradient icon ( it's the second icon from left).
Step 5: Drag the white to black gradient from the left center of your selection to about 1/4 past the edge.
Step 6: Press "d". Create new layer.
Step 7: In the gradient picker, choose te foreground to transparent gradient( its the second one from the left, top row.)
Step 8: In the options bar choose linear gradient. Drag the gradient from the top of your selection to the middle to fill the top with black.
Step 9: In the layers palette, lower the opacity to 75%.
step 10: Create a new layer,
Step 11: Go under the select menu, under modify and choose contract, Enter 6 pixels. Click OK.
Step 12: Press "x". Drag from the top of your selection through about 1/3 of your selected area. Press apple+d.
Step 13: Go under the filter menu, under blur and choose Gaussian blur. Enter 3 pixels . Click OK
Step 14z; Duplicate your top layer by dragging it ti your new layer icon
Step 15: Press apple+t. ctrl+click inside the bounding box, then choose rotate 180ยบ from the pop-up menu. Press enter to let photoshop know your done.
Step 16: Select the move tool. Drag this layer straight down almost to the edge.
Step 17: Lower the opacity of this layer to 60%.
Step 18: Go back to layer 3( the layer below your current layer). Press apple+t.
Step 19: Hold shift key, grab the bottom right handle, shrink the white gradient by around 15%. Press enter.
Step 20: Hide the background layer and choose merge visible from the layers palette's pop up menu.
Step 21: Choose drop shadow from the layer style pop-up menu at the bottom of the layers palette. Click OK.
Step 22: Press apple+u. Click the colorize button and move the hue slider to choose color for your button.,

Friday, October 2, 2009

Sound fx

First 2 paragraphs:
0. Pad 1
Length: 8.00 secs
1.Deep Hownling Sound (Wind)
Length: 7.00 secs
2.Man screaming 1 pop
Length: 4.00 secs
3.A Cruel Laugh
Length: 4.00 secs
4.4 Running Steps
Length: 1.00 secs
5.page_turn
Length: 0.00 secs
Evil Voice
Length: 3.00 secs