Making a web template in photoshop - Part2
Add your title to the left of this new rectangular gradient, and decorate it however you like. I just add a little purple tint to the top.
To make it look like your title in inlayed into the gradient below, we are going to use the same technique we have been using! Ctrl click your text layer to get a selection of your text. Make a new layer below your text layer, and choose Select > Modify > Expand. Expand your selection by 5 pixels or so, and lay another gradient in your selection going the opposite direction of the one below it. Your title should look similar to mine.
Looking good? On to the next step!
Move down to your header gradient layer, and control click it to make a selection. Use your circular selection tool, while holding alt, to delete your title from the selection as shown below.
Choose Image > Adjustments > Brightening Contrast and up the brightness a little.
Make a new layer, and choose Edit > Stroke, and stroke the inside of your selection with a dark gray and the outside with a light gray
Select all of the stroked portion except for the curvature, and delete it as shown below.
Your title should be looking something like this.
Now lets add a place to put your text. Select the rounded rectangle tool
And make two blocks similar to the ones shown below.
Rasterize both of the layer, and merge them. Control click the layer to make the selection, and add a slight gradient to the tops of the 2 blocks.
Choose Edit > Stroke and add a dark gray border to the outside of your selection
and a light gray border to the inside of your selection
Add a drop shadow to your two tables by creating a new layer below your table layer. Fill it with black and choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Your tables should look like mine.
That's about it! Here is how mine came out.
Thank you.