4/21/2009

Design Lab TV Styled Layout

1. The first thing we want to do is create a new document with the dimensions of 1024x768.

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2. Next we want to go ahead and add a Wood Texture Background to our document. Go ahead and open it up in photoshop and move it onto your document and you'll have something that looks like this

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3. Now lets go ahead and put our TV which will house our portfolio content. You can either find a TV on your own, or you can use this one for this tutorial: HP TV. Once you have it move it onto your document and make sure its centered.

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4. We want a little 'glow' behind our TV to give it a backlit effect, so go ahead and add the following blending options to your layer by right click its layer and choosing blending options

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5. Using your Rectangle Marquee Tool to make a selection similar to the following and fill it with #09B5F5. Make sure this layer is under your TV Layer.

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6. Next go ahead and duplicate your blue bars layer and choose Filter>Blur>GAUSSIAN BLUR and insert the following

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7. You should have something that looks similar to this once your done with that

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8. Now use your Marquee Tool with a feather of 10px to make a selection similar to the following and fill it with #09B5F5

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9. Change the Blend Mode to Overlay and your document should look something like this

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10. Its now time to work on our content area. Lets go ahead and start with a navigation bar. Using your Rectangle Marquee Tool make a selection similar to the following and fill it with #FFFFFF

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11. Now on this layer insert the following blending options

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12. Then go ahead and add some text that will serve as links to the right side like the following

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13. Using your Rectangle Marquee tool make a selection similar to the following behind one of your links and fill it with #FFFFFF

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14. Insert the following blending options onto that layer

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15. We want to go ahead and make a shine to our active link, so go ahead and make a selection similar to the following and fill it with #FFFFFF

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16. Lower the Opacity to about 8%, and change the blend mode to Soft Light and insert the following blending options

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17. Your navigational menu will now look something like this

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18. I did not want anything to fancy for a logo, so I went ahead and made a simple text logo with Helvetica Neu and made the first part #FFFFFF and the second part #0FE80F

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19. For our content we will be using thumbnails similar to the following with a #CCCCCC 1px stroke. Lay them out something like this

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20. The final step is to add a next and back button to the mix. Using your Rectangle Marquee or Rectangle tool make a rectangle similar to the following

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21. Insert the following blending options onto your rectangles layer

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22. Next use your Marquee Tool to make a circle similar to the following and fill it with #FFFFFF

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23. Now insert the following blending options onto your circles layer

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24. Use your Polygonal Lasso Tool to make a triangle and fill it with #172229 and you'll have something that looks like this

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25. Now go ahead and repeat those steps but for the right side and you'll have something that looks like this. Also chose to lower the opacity to 50% on the left side to show that you can't go back. This is the final result:

Design Lab TV Styled Layout Tutorial: Final Result

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