2. Choose  Rounded Rectangle Tool (Shift+U), make a vertical rectangle with color #2E69FF.

3. Choose Blending Option of the layer with the rectangle with the folowing settings:

4. Make the transparency of the Layer (Fill) to 20%.

5. Make a new layer. Keeping Ctrl, click the left button of the layer “shape”; pour selection with black and press Ctrl + D to deselect.

6. Go to Filter – Render – Lens Flare with settings Movie Prime and Brightness around 180, press OK.

7. Place the Blending Mode to screen.

8. You are ready

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2. Select the image using the appropriate tool according to it’s complicity.

3. Copy the selected object at new layer from the Layer – New  – Layer via Copy (Ctrl+J).

4. Turn it vertiсal using Edit – Transform – Flip Vertiсal.

5. Use Move Tool (V) to move the figure at the bottom of the page.

6. Add a Layer Mask by clicking on the third little icon at the Layers Panel.

7. Use Gradient Tool with Linear style and colors from black to white.

8. Do bottom – up line by holding Shift to make a straight line.

9. Low down the Opacity to  60%:

10. You are ready

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2. You must first unlock the Layer. Yow will do this by double clicking on the padlock located at Layer Palette.

3. Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select an object of the picture you want to apply the effect.

4. Now choose the Gradient Tool and make a line from the upper right corner to bottom left. Colors must be from black to white. Remove selections with Ctr + D.

5. Go to  Edit – Transform - Warp.

6. Hold the bottom left corner and pull towards the middle. When you are ready press Enter.

7. You are ready

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2. Choose Filter – Render –  LightingEffects.

3. Select for Omni for Light type, move the slider of the Intensity to 50, change the color to ff7608 by clicking on the default color (box on the right of the slider with intensity).

4. Change the size of the light source by pulling the levers of a circle you see in the left window where image is located.

5. Make a new layer.

6. Take the Rectangular marquee tool and draw a rectangle at the end of the beach with color ff7608.

7. Change  Blending Mode to Overlay and low the Opacity to 44%.

8. Choose Filter – Blur – Motion Blur and set the following values Angel – 45, Distance – 129.

9. Use Edit – Free Transform to place it the way you feel it should be.

10. Your sunset is ready.

2. Make a new layer.

3. Take the  Gradient Tool. Choose the style  Linear Gradient – TransparentRainbow.

4. While pressing down the Shift key, make short vertical stroke in the middle of the picture. The direction should be from top to bottom.

5. Choose  Filter - Distort - Polar Coordinates. Tick Rectangular to Polar and pres OK.

6. To move the figures use the Edit – Free Transform (Ctrl + T). This way you can reduce or increase its size and move it to the appropriate location according to your picture.

7. Choose Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur with Radius: 4.5px

8. Change  Blending Mode to Screen and low the Opacity to 80%.

9. Take a large soft round Brush with Hardness 0 and delete where you think it is necessary.

10. Your rainbow is ready.

2. Choose foreground and background color and with Gradient tool make something like
this:

3. Take Type tool and write the text you want

4. Right click on text in layer palette and choose blending option. In the window that will appear make the following settings.

5. Make a new layer and selection like this:

6. Now make another gradient with gradient tool with little different colors.

7. Press CTR+T for Free transform then right click and choose warp. From tool option choose flag and pres enter to apply the transformation.

8. With big soft brush in low opacity delete little from both sides to soften the edges.

9. From Window choose Animation to open the animation palette.

10. Now move line to the left with Move tool till it hide completely and then click Duplicates selected frames button in animation palette.

11. Move line with Move tool to the right so it hides again. Now select both frames in the animation palette (Ctr+click) and press tween.

12. In the window that will appear make following settings.

13. Select all frames in animation palette (select first frame, hold Shift and click on the last frame) then choose 0 sec. for delay and click on forever.

14. Now you are ready to save it. Choose File-Save for web and devices. In the window that will appear select Gif and press save.

15. New window will appear. Choose where do you want to save it and for Save as type select Images only (gif).

16. Open it in your web browser to see the result.

The HTML Structure

Okay we shall now begin! First off open up a text editor of some sort i.e Notepad. Then copy this into the text editor:

<html>
<head>
<title>My First HTML Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is my first go at HTML. Pulse GFX rules!</p>
</body>
</html>

Lets anaylse this HTML structure! The following structure above is the basic structure a HTML document must follow. If it isn’t in this structure you could end up getting random errors and also you would not be coding HTML properly! Let’s look at each part of this structure:

<html> This tag tells the browser that the beginning of a HTML document starts here. The</html> tag would tell the browser that the HTML document ends there.

<head> This tag would include all the header information that is on that html page. For example the title of the webpage of would go between the tag because it is information that the browser needs to pick up and does not need to be seen by the user. Anything between the tag can not be seen on the actual HTML page. The </head> tag tells the browser that any information after this point needs to be displayed.

<title> This tag is used to add a title name to your HTML pages. For example if you want to call you page, My Favorite Movies. You would simply place that between the <title> tag. Once you’ve finished your title name you would close it with the </title> tag to tell the broswer that the title text has ended.

<body>This tag is where all of your content that you want displayed should go. The browser would look out for this tag in your HTML structure so it knows what it needs to display! Once your content is finished you would close it up with the </body>tag.

Okay so now you know a little bit about a classic structure of a HTML page. Now it’s time to save the HTML you’ve copied and make it into a webpage. You can simply do this by saving the document and then adding the correct file extenison. So save your text document and call it something like “myfirstpage” and then add onto that a HTML file extension…

Step 1 – The inevitable ‘New Document’

Open Photoshop and create a New Document.
For the purpose of this tutorial, we have a document 630 pixels wide by 300 pixels high but as your button will likely be cut away from this eventually, just give yourself enough space to work.

Step 2 – Button base

The metallic RSS button is going to be round, so using the Ellipse Tool (U) with a medium to dark grey – I’ve gone with #454545 – draw your circle.
Next go to the Layer Styles (double clicking the layer) and check Gradient, applying the following settings.

Finally, merge this with a blank layer so that we have a flattened image.

Step 3 – RSS Icon

Create a new layer and select the Custom Shape Tool (U), with the custom shape ‘Bull’s Eye’. Using a Chroma Keyer colour and draw a Bull’s Eye over your button base, 5 – 10 pixels past the edge.

Now use the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to select and cut away the left side and lower half of the Bull’s Eye, also removing the remaining quarter of the centre circle.

Use the elliptical Marquee Tool (M) to draw in your own full circle, aligned to the left and lower area of the outer rings then drop it down into place, aligning it with the button base.

Step 4 – Metal die cut

Duplicate the button base layer, Ctrl + Click the RSS icon layer and press delete.

You can now remove the RSS Icon layer and make the base button layer hidden to see what you’ve created. You should have a RSS Button that looks like this:-

Step 5 – Metal texture

To create the metal texture, apply the following Layer Styles to the metal die cut:



(The gradient used here is quite complex however you can see it in more detail by downloading the source .psd which has been included in this tutorial.)

Apply a Clipping Mask to the two layers (Layer » Create Clipping Mask) and you should now have a Metal RSS Button looking a little like this:-

Step 6 – Brushed metal

Again duplicate the button base layer and bring it above everything.

Apply a Noise Filter of around 125%, Gaussian and Monochromatic (Filter » Noise » Add Noise…).

Ctrl + Click the layer so we have a selection and apply a Radial Spin (Filter » Blur » Radial Blur… » Spin / 100 / Good.)

Set the layers Blending Mode to Multply and bring the opacity down to around 15%.

Step 7 – Some shine

Finally, add a little shine by duplicating the button base layer, raising the lightness to 100% so that it is a solid white and place it above everything. Use the Elliptical Marquee Tool (U) to select around a two thirds area and press delete.

Set the Layer Blending Mode to Overlay and drop the opacity down to around 60%.

Add a vector mask and using a soft edge brush of around 25%, gentle brush the top edge away to give a more gentle shine.

I hope you got something out this and thank you for reading.

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The main problem resides primarily in choosing the right colors for the web site. It is not always easy to properly assort the background color with the text color. The readability of a page can be influenced negatively if the color contrast is badly chosen. The background of web pages is white by default, like a sheet of paper.

Colors for Web Site Visitors

Researchers agree that colors greatly influence the human psychic. Consequently, the color scheme that you use on your web site can entice the visitor to engage in the goal of your site (i.e. make a purchase or request your services) or leave it after the first few seconds. It is the human nature to yield to the concept according to which “the first impression counts”.

Even if they are not aware of it, your visitors will be greatly influenced in their decision to keep browsing your site or to leave it because of the poor choosing of colors and other visual displayed elements. On a psychological level, they will respond to the stimuli offered by the web site.

When viewing a web page, people will get excited, happy or bored. All this depends on the color selection. You need to be aware of the audience to which you’re addressing and make the right choices. Color is a great means of communications, and it is best to make sure that you are saying the right thing.

Here are a few tips that you should consider

• Use a palette of colors found in nature. They are more pleasing than any of their artificial counterparts. Combine them in order to get the emotional response that you want to get from your visitors. Unnatural colors, such as bright greens, blues or reds usually cause eye fatigue and chase visitors (i.e. prospects) away
• Create a strong contrast between a page’s background and its text. The best combination for readability is black text on white background, but there are other excellent combinations also. Besides white, other effective web site background, colors are dark blue, gray and black.
• Avoid pairing blue and red, or blue and yellow. Green text on red background or red text on green / blue background are also choices that you shouldn’t make, because such combinations usually cause eye fatigue.
• Select up to five (some say seven) different colors and use them consistently throughout the web site.
• Avoid using the blue color for small texts and diagrams with thin lines. Apparently, the specialized eye receptors for blue are the least numerous.
• Be aware that there are lots of people with color perception problems, so it might be quite difficult for them to perceive the message transmitted by your site the way you want them to.
• While some colors are dull by themselves, such as black, or gray, their juxtaposition with, for example, orange, can create outstanding effects.
• Use white spaces to balance the other colors from your site. It will make web pages easy on the eyes.
• Make sure you always perform a readability test for your web site. Use different shades of one color and, above all, pay attention to the harmonization of the different colors you use.

Colors and People

Keep in mind that responses to colors vary according to factors such as gender, age, or cultural background. You need some serious market research in order to make your site appealing for the exact category you’re targeting.

Old vs. Young People

People of different ages have different reactions to colors. People past a certain age will find web sites with more sober and restrained (and therefore relaxing to the eye) colors more attractive. Youngsters, on the other hand, will appreciate more vivid and brighter colors, in keeping with their general attitude. Make the distinction between mature and young audience by using the appropriate colors for each category.

Men vs. Women

People also have preferences according to their gender. Thus, men tend to prefer blue and orange to red and yellow, while women prefer red to blue and yellow to orange. Also, remember that it has been proven that women are able to perceive considerably more colors than men.

Nations and Colors

If your website addresses an audience larger than your country of origin, or it is meant to attract prospects from a specific country, invest some time in researching the specific meanings of colors. For example, while white is a symbol of purity in Western cultures, it stands for bad luck and unhappiness in China, Japan, and India. While very appreciated in Japan, pink is frowned upon in India and East-European countries, where it is regarded as a “non-manly color”.

Purple is associated in certain Arabic cultures with prostitution (the same as red in the European and North-American cultures), and globally, it is generally associated with mysticism and beliefs that are not in keeping with the precepts of Islamism, Judaism and Christianity. Green, if used for the web site of a financial institution from the USA, will support the implication that the institution deals with the “almighty green dollar”, but it may bear no such significance in a country where bills (paper money) are multiple-colored.

On the other hand, there is a globally accepted “safe” color: blue. It can be used for almost any kind of site, no matter its audience, location or goal. It would be therefore safe to say that blue is an international color. In order to avoid embarrassing (and even costly) issues, you have the option of mixing colors.

This can lead to a complete change of meanings, significances will be changed and negative implications will be at the very least diminished, if not eliminated altogether (e.g. red becomes more powerful when combined with white). It is up to you to obtain creative colors that will be internationally accepted, but you have to do your homework quite well.

Common Colors and Their Most Common Meanings

• Red : energy, passion, excitement, power; also implies aggression, danger.
• Blue : coolness, spirituality, freedom, patience, loyalty, peace, trustworthiness; can also imply sadness, depression.
• Yellow : light, optimism, happiness, brightness, joy.
• Green : life, naturalness, restfulness, health, wealth, prosperity; in certain contexts, can imply decay, toxicity.
• Orange : friendliness, warmth, approachability, energy, playfulness, courage.
• Violet : wisdom, sophistication, celebration.
• White : purity, cleanliness, youth, freshness, peace.
• Black : power, elegance, secrecy, mystery.
• Gray : security, maturity, reliability.
• Pink : romance a feminine color.
• Brown : comfort, strength, stability, credibility.

Using Colors for Web Site Elements

It is a good thing to differentiate between the elements of your web site by using various colors. You can use colors for identification, grouping or emphasis. For example, groups of related web pages can be identified by some particular color scheme, thus making it easier for a visitor to identify their place in your web site’s architecture.

Certain information that needs to be brought to the visitor’s attention can be highlighted by means of color. This improves scanning and can help reduce visual fatigue.

An important factor in the development of a web site is the use of various colors for hyperlinks, in order to help users distinguish between pages they have already viewed and pages that they haven’t visited yet.