Creating a Website Template in Photoshop
Posted on 18. Mar, 2008 by Web Design in Photoshop
Photoshop Web Template – Website Design Tutorial
A recommended tip is that you learn the Shortcut keys!Why? To save some time of course!
And remember to press CTRL+S (save) very often!
Ok! Let’s start.
First you need a new document CTRL+N, with the Width: 1024 pixels and the Height: 1174 pixels.
Now change the background-color to “#817b74″
(G)
Select the “Rectangular Marquee Tool”. Shortcut key: (M).
And hold it and drag it to make a rectangular shape, put the shape where you want to put the white. Then you copy (ctrl+c) and paste (ctrl+v) to get a new layer!
Why is not my layer white like yours? Well you need to go “FX” aka layer style. If you don’t see this image press “F7″ on your keyboard!
Now, select Stroke, Color overlay, Outer glow and Inner shadow and do the following!
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Select the rectagular marquee tool and drag it like this, remember to have the background layer selected!
Now copy and paste, so you get the mark into a new layer, then go to FX, layer style once again!
Then press “Color Overlay” (#9b948e)
And then Inner shadow
This is what it should looks now
Your probably wondering how I got the flower and the note look so real? Well we call them Stock images!
Whats the best way to cut out the object out of the image? Well to get the best quality on the cut I strongly recommend the pen tool.
Just to make sure, this is what you should have right now.
Select your stock image(s)
This tool is called “Pen tool”
when you have add the point marks around the objects select this tool.
and drag the points to a smooth and clean point.
Then right click on the object and hit “Make selection”
And hit OK. Now you should have a selection around the object.
Another way to cut out and object from a white background is to select this tool and select the white background and make an inverse (Shift+Ctrl+I)
And then copy and paste. BUT! this way makes the object loose its quality, so i strongly recommend the pen tool!
Now when you selected you stock image and made a cut-out of the object put it behind the white content layer. Just like i did.
Another stock image attached with a brushed shadow, over the white content layer.
You can add some sharpness to the image since it where minimized and loosed a bit of quality!
Select the Background layer
Select the rectangular marquee tool and mark it like this
Select this tool (G)
Then create a new blank layer
Now drag it from the bottom of the mark to the top to make it like this
Add the layer to “soft light”
Select this tool by right click on the markquee icon.
Zoom in (Z) and put it one pixel over the base line.
Now press this icon and a the top of that meny, press on the “Soild color” and select (#75706c)
Once again, this is what you should have something like this right now
Then you can add these small things that no one care about, just filling out the layout.
Like this, adding a shadow using the pen tool
Then right click and hit “Make selection” once again. Then press on this icon on the layer panel and hit “Brightness /Contrast”
I used the same technique to make the shadow at the bottom.
“Why did you add these shadows, it dosen’t fit to anything?” Well i call them fill-outs. Details matters, so i added small things that no one would notice but they know its there.
Then when it comes to adding the text.
This layout is basically based on text so i wanted to show you how it works.
Press this button on the panel, and drag it like this
You can modify the text by going the the Character panel
Then press “Character”! I used Times new roman and Tahoma in this layout!
Then you can rotate the text area to fit the note more perfect.
Foodhealthfitness.com logo
The menu is 12pt tahoma font
The sub navigation 11pt tahoma
Other stock-images
Then add your favorite links at the bottom
Now the last thing you need to add when you got you content text and images on place.
Add a new group layer and select all the layers you have and drag them into this group!
When you have done that, right click on the group you just created and hit “Dublicate group…”
And when its dublicated, klick on the group and press “CTRL+E” and Press M and cut out something like this.
Then drag the point up while houlding Shift+alt
Then make it like this.
Now. Hit this “mask” on the layer panel and then
Make sure its black and transperant.
“Drag it up!”
Our Result with our content!
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Michael Dunlop
22. Mar, 2008
Great Post, should help beginning Web Template Designers fast!
hanan
27. Apr, 2008
really good work
mark
27. Apr, 2008
Very nice layout, wonderful!
shegs
28. Apr, 2008
nice tutorial, I think the next step would be to turn this into a real site.
cutting the pieces and putting it back together and making it function.
maybe even how to turn this into a wordpress template or something.
just an idea
take care!
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flashfs
03. May, 2008
I agree with shegs. Cool tutorial and it would be good another one teaching how to slice this template.
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23. May, 2008
The Great Tutorial!!!
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Priba
06. Jun, 2008
wow, thank you very much! I spent the whole day today learning Photoshop through your lesson. I feel like I had 3 month of Photoshop training. Once again thank you. God bless!
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Raj
14. Jun, 2008
nice tutorial. Thanx!
logicAlly
25. Jul, 2008
damn that was the tigh(test) tutorial ever i like the layout
Asim Das
25. Jul, 2008
nice tutorial. thanx!
bob
20. Sep, 2008
that was a great tutorial but how do you organize the slices with css instead of using tables. i would also like to know how to do this in dream weaver thanks in advance who ever has the answers to my question
bellinha
25. Oct, 2008
Hi, this is a very nice tutorial. The stock images of the sunflower and the note paper/peg, they are stock images, do I just copy them to my computer and remove the background. What about copyright on them how does that work? How does stock images work as far as copyright goes?
Thanks any help would be appreciated.
Bellinha
Lancashire Website Design
12. Dec, 2008
I’ve seen quite a few Photoshop tutorials about website design and they all do it in a similar way but this is nicely set out so well done and thanks… bookmarked. The real trick in what makes this good is that your images are well annotated with those little red lines… ! Nice one!
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Internet management
03. Apr, 2009
Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it?s not a much.:)
Vivek Prakash
22. May, 2009
I’ve searched for many Photoshop tutorials, but this one is nicely written and helped me a lot
social networking software
06. Jun, 2009
very nice tutorial…i liked how you put everything on one page..good for your time on site and easy for us to use.
pamanahrasa
01. Aug, 2009
“FUN-TASTIC!!!”
Noble Sebastian
11. Aug, 2009
Excellent….
Muhammad Umar
11. Aug, 2009
its great really fantasic
saurabh agnihotri
07. Dec, 2009
hi…i am an intermediate level php developer.the only thing i lack in my website is a sexy n appealing look. i now hope that i will soon be able to do that as well…..
thank you so much for this excellent tutorial.
lancashire seo
18. Dec, 2009
Love the article just what I needed.
murkcore@blogger blog
04. Jan, 2010
is there a tutorial on how to code templates made in photoshop? Or if there is an easy way to code templates. maybe a software or a website that adds all the codes for your design..
ravi
24. Jan, 2010
Great tutorial! Thanks