January 6th, 2008 in Photoshop Tutorials by Richard Carpenter
Techy Navigation Bar




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Create a new document 600×150 with black as your background. Select the “rounded rectangle tool” and draw out a rectangle fill it with the color black also, now add these layer styles.


You should now have something like this.

Now create a new layer above your rectangle then select the pen tool and create a box like this.

Right click and goto make a selection. Then fill with the color white.

Select your rectangle layer whilst holding the “ctrl” key on the keyboard now click your white box layer that you created in the last step. Goto “select > inverse” then hit the “delete” key on the keyboard, you should be left with this.

Add this layer style to your white box and set layer opacity to 65%.

You should now have this.

Select the type tool personilze your navigation with the sections you require. The colors ive used are #ffffff & #d9ff3f.

Select the type tool once again and just type out some dash’s ( ——– ), Now goto “edit > transform > rotate 90 cw” place one of these next to your text.

Now draw a small white box above your text.

Now add a number inside you white box.

Now select the type tool again and whilst holding shift press “¬” key, on my keyboard its under the “esc” key and above the 2tab” key. Add this symbol to the right of your text.

All done.
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