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Rounded Gel Banner

July 31st, 2013

This is an advanced tutorial on how to make a gel-like banner.

Prequisites

Please know how to do the following before using this tutorial.

Objective

Rounded Gel - finished

Tutorial

  1. Make a new canvas and fill the background with some sort of color or background. I will be using a 350x150px one with a black gradient

    Rounded Gel - #1

  2. Make a New Layer . I will name mine, base.

    Rounded Gel - #2

  3. Select the Rounded Rectangle tool . Make sure Fill Pixels (also called “Create filled region”) is selected. I will be using a 20px radius, though you can adjust this as you like.

    Rounded Gel - #3

  4. On layer base, create a Rounded Rectangle in the color of your choice.

    Rounded Gel - #4

  5. Create a New Layer on top of layer base. I will name it shadow.

    Rounded Gel - #5

  6. Select the Gradient tool and use a black to transparent Linear Gradient.

    Rounded Gel - #6

    Load a selection on layer base. (Tutorial: Exercise: Selections, step 6) Then make a gradient from right to left on layer shadow.

    Rounded Gel - #6

  7. Set the Blending Option of layer shadow to Soft Light.

    Rounded Gel - #7

    Now we have…

    Rounded Gel - #7

  8. Create a New Layer above layer shadow. I will name it light.

    Rounded Gel - #8

  9. Load a selection on layer base, and then fill layer light with white using the Paint Bucket tool .

    Rounded Gel - #9

  10. Go to Select >> Modify >> Feather (or Select >> Feather in old versions). Set it to 10px and then hit Delete on your keyboard.

    Rounded Gel - #10

  11. Set the Blending Option of layer light to Overlay.

    Rounded Gel - #11

  12. Create a New Layer underneath shadow. I will name it upper light.

    Rounded Gel - #12

  13. Use the Elliptical Marquee and make a curved shape on the top half of the rectangle.

    Rounded Gel - #13

  14. Fill layer upper light with white using the Paint Bucket

    Rounded Gel - #14

  15. Set the Opacity of layer upper light to 10%.

    Rounded Gel - #15

    Which looks like this…

    Rounded Gel - #15

  16. Create a New Layer above layer upper light. I will name mine upper outline.

    Rounded Gel - #16

  17. Load a selection on layer upper light, and then fill layer upper outline with white using the Paint Bucket .

    Rounded Gel - #17

  18. Go to Select >> Modify >> Feather and set it to 15px. Hit Delete on your keyboard. Lower the Opacity of layer upper outline to 50%.

    Rounded Gel - #18

  19. Load a selection on layer base and then invert it (Ctrl+Shift+I).

    Hit Delete on your keyboard for layers upper light and upper outline. This deletes off the extra parts that were sticking out of the rectangle.

    Rounded Gel - #19

  20. Select layer base, and then select Stroke from the Layer Styles . Set the size to 2px, opacity around 50-70%, and the color to white.

    Rounded Gel - #20

    This gives us…

    Rounded Gel - #20

  21. The banner is pretty much done! For a final touch, use the Text tool to write something on it. Set the text’s Blending Option to Overlay.

    Rounded Gel - finished

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