Designing a glossy website layout in photoshop video

This video tutorial takes you step by step throught the craetion of a website header in photoshop CS2. We discuss layers and layer styles, selection tools, gradient overlay, color overlay, bevel and emboss, inner glow applied to create spherical ball shaped entities on buttons. We also look at cool techniques for stylish button susing a drop shadow effect and creating a stylish interface with the pencil tool and drop shadow. We will also look at the text tool and develop a stylish logo.

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We will be starting the setup of the above header in photoshop.

In this tutorial we will use the following in photoshop: Polygonal lasso, gradient, color picker, adding and subtracting selections, gradient overlay, drop shadow inner and outer glow techniques, text effects with the afore mentioned blending options, layer manipulation techniques and much more. Enjoy the video.