You can download the Nailed it Logo or the Nailed It Promotions Products Set with full PSD and AI source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Create and Color a Circle

First, let’s start with a new document with the size of 800 x 800 pixels. Now, create a new layer, select Ellipse Tool (U), set your foreground color to #daac73, and draw a circle that fits the canvas.

Step 2: Add Inner Shadow to the Circle

Now, let’s add some effects to our circle. Right click on your circle layer, then go to Blending Options, Inner Shadow, and use #e4b71c for multiply blend mode, capacity 89%, and size 87 pixels.

Step 3: Bevel and Emboss the Circle

Then, go to Bevel and Emboss, select Inner Bevel style with the following settings:
Depth 1000%, size 10 pixels, soften 16pixel, #b26300 for the color, dodge highlight mode, and #4e281d for the multiply shadow mode.

Step 4: Apply a Gradient Overlay

Next, go to Gradient Overlay, select Soft Light for the blending mode with 76% for the capacity and scale 135%

This is how your circle looks after completing steps 2-4:

Step 5: Add an Image to your Logo and Emboss it

Now let’s find your image and place it in the canvas. Obviously for this theme a tool image will work best, but you can use this same technique to create a logo for any topic.

After the image is placed onto the circle, we need to give it a little depth, so we will emboss it. Go to your image layer, right click on it, select Blending Options, go to Bevel and Emboss, select Outer Bevel Style, enter 674% for the depth, size and soften 16 pixels, use #fdda9c for the lighten highlight mode, and #b67833 for the multiply shadow mode.

This is how it looks:

Step 6: Duplicate the Image

To enhance the aesthetics of the logo, we will add in a second image and criss-cross it across the first one so that it looks like a cress. The easiest way to do this is to create a duplicate hammer layer. Therefore, go to your hammer layer, right click and select Duplicate Layer. Then, click Free Transform (Control T) to rotate and move your hammer to something shown below:

Step 7: Add Your Text

Now, it’s time to add your text. This logo uses the font face called Impact and the color of the font is #b67833. Type your text in and place it in the center like so:

Step 8: Warp the Text

The first step in styling this text is to warp it, which is just to say we will cause it to bend to both sides. Press (T) for your “type tool”, and select “create warped text”:

Then, select Arc Upper and bend 35%:

This is how it looks:

Step 9: Add an Inner Shadow and Stroke to the Text

There are really two parts to this step, which are the inner shadow and stroke effects.

For the first part, right click on your text layer, go to Blending Mode > Inner Shadow, and enter 100% for the capacity, distance 2 pixels, and size 8 pixels

Then, go to Inner Glow, select Linear Light for blend mode, capacity 100%, color #ffb741, size 7 pixels, and range 50%.

Next, go to stroke, use color #794e1d, size 15 pixels and capacity 100%.

Finally, the end result:

You can download the Nailed it Logo or the Nailed It Promotions Products Set with full PSD and AI source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the Flower Blossom Menu Template with full PSD and AI source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Start a Document and Insert a Photo

First, let’s get a photo of a model in lingerie. Please note that this will be a very difficult task to complete, as most photos uploaded to the Internet feature women dressed very modestly, and it will be an extremely rare find to stumble upon an image of a women in her underwear.

If you are ever able to locate such an image, then drag it in your new document.

Step 2: Create Some Watercolor Splashes

Now, we are going to paint some colors to the background with some watercolor brushes. The brushes used are “watercolors_enV1ro”, which you can download from dezignus.com. Create a new layer for each splash underneath the model layer. Then, select your favorite color; you can have as many colors as you like. This is how our splashes have been applied to the background of the design:

Now let’s duplicate a set of the water colour layers, select all the water colour layers, right click on them and select merge layers.

Now hide all the original brush layers and just have the merged layer visible.

Step 3: Give the Girl a Twirl

Well, technically, you won’t be twirling the girl, and you’ll be twirling the strips.. I mean the stripes. Go to Filter > Distort > Twirl and use 350 for the angle settings

Here are the results:

Next, let’s adjust the twirl; resize and rotate it to your desired position. Press Control T and play around with it (the SWIRLS!)

You can duplicate the twirl and move around anywhere you prefer. This is how our twirls are positioned:

Step 4: Add Some Motion to the Twirls

Next, we are going to add some motion to the twirls.. This is a very simple step, just duplicate a copy of the twirl layer, then go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and use 35 for the zoom amount.

This is how it looks now:

Step 5: Give the Model a Little Tan

Contrast is often a good thing, such as creamy white skin against black leather lingerie, however, our model is posing for a summer themed menu design, so let’s make her look more appropriate for the theme and give her a little tan; go to Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter

Pick the warming filter (81) and 50% for the density:

The results are a warm summer glow:

Step 6: Make the Model Stand Our from the Background

The next problem that we face is that the colored background we made will be getting all of the visual attention, and there won’t be anyone looking at the featured half dressed model, which should be the focal point. Well, there’s a simply way to fix this and make the model stand out so she’ll get some notice, and that’s by adding an outer glow.

Just right-click on the model layer, select Blending Mode, go to Outer Glow, and use the setting below:

This will create a clean white glow around the model photo as seen below:

Step 7: Add some Flowers to the Image

Next, let’s add some flowers to the image for a fresh summer feel. Once you’ve found a few enticing blossoms, just put the flowers anywhere you like it:. Here’s how we’ve sprinkled ours around:

Step 8: Oh My Stars and Garters!

Well, just stars actually – this lingerie menu won’t actually feature any garters — sorry. To add the stars to the image, go to brush (B), pick the star brush, and set the master diameter to 100 pixels.

Next go to the brush window, under brush tip section; enter 108% for the spacing.

Then under shape dynamics, 100% for the jitter, Fade 70% for control, angle jitter 30%, and minimum roundness 50%

Next, under scattering enter 269% for scattering and count jitter 7%.

Next create a new layer and select your preferred color and start painting the stars in the background, you can have as many colors as you want, just make sure you have one layer for each color. You can play with the brush diameter for different sizes of the stars. This is how our palcement looks:

Step 9: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Now, let’s add some glow to the stars. Right click on the star layers, go to Blending Options, and under Outer Glow use the settings below:

Do the same for all your star layers. Here are the results of the final image:

Finally, we have the results of the full menu; we’ve simply repeated the same steps above for the remaining 3 collages:

You can download the Flower Blossom Menu Template with full PSD and AI source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the Tight Music Template with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here or take a quick tour.

Step 1: Set Up Your Document

Firstly, create a new document, with the size of 1000px X 800px.

At the same time, gather some photos of your favorite musician. We’ve prepared 3 different angle photos of our artist.

Step 2: Trace Your Photo’s Supple Curves

We need to path out the artist from the background. I’m sure you know how to it by now. Just use the pen tool and path follow the model, and then copy it out and place it in your new document.

Step 3: Get Some Decorative Imagery

Okay, here we need to add some of the musical elements, like music notes, and some shapes to give a retro look, as well as some flowers. We developed ours in Illustrator (you can see the images in the last step), but you can just download some clipart or vectors to suit.

Step 4: Draw a Basic Box for Your Frame

Now, let’s create the basic block of our much talked about frame for the artist. However, before drawing it out, hide the layers with the artist to concentrate drawing on the frame first. Grab the rounded rectangle tool, use a radius of 50px, and draw a rounded corner box like below.

Step 5: Set Your Frame Width

Since we’re making a frame and not a solid block, we need to extract the center part of our rounded rectangle. To accomplish this, hold on to your CTRL key and click on the layer that has the rounded corner box. Next, under Select > Modify > Contract, set the pixel to 20 and press okay.

Step 6: Delete the Middle of the Block

Now, you can see the selection is smaller than the rounded rectangle. To remove the excess area, hit the delete button. The basic frame is now in place, but we still need to add in some effects and patterns to make it more enticing.

Step 7: Decorate Your Frame

Let’s add some patterns on the frame; I think a pretty cloud effect will suit our model selection – we downloaded this brush effect from Deviant.com. Before that, remember to lock the transparent pixels option.

Here is what was used to get the effect below.

Step 8: Add Dimension to Your Frame

Next, we need to add in some layer effect on the frame for the final touch up. Using some Bevel and Emboss effect will make the frame look a little more 3D. You can find the settings used below.

Step 9: Smooth as Satin

Before applying the above to the layer, there’s still another effect we need to add in, which is the Satin effect. This will give the frame a smooth and sharp sheen. Again the setting as below.

Step 10: Let in Your Musician

Finally, we have the frame finished. Now, start making the header with the artist images that we pathed out earlier. First, we have the blue frame, and here we used the first pose of the artist image. Put her in the frame just like below.

Step 11: Add in Your Vectors

Now, let’s add in some vectors to fill up the space. We added some nice flowers at the left corner, and as for the background, we drew a simple path.

Step 12: Create Additional Frames

Now that we have one frame done, let’s do two more with different colors and different poses of our artist. We created two different size, one in orange and one in green, and put them side by side the main frame.

Step 13: Finishing Touches

Now frame is ready, and again, it’s time to fill it up. We’ll use the different poses and different vectors that we selected earlier. Doesn’t it look cool?

After you have finished this, you can start composing your menu, sidebars and content for you page. Enjoy!

You can download the Tight Music Template with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here or take a quick tour.

You can download the High Class Heels print newsletter template with full PSD and AI source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Set up Your Document and Base Pallet

First, let’s start by creating a new document with the size of 17 x 11 inches in CMYK, which will be the print dimensions of our largest size newsletter. Then, create a new layer and fill it with a black transparency gradient. Press (G) for the Gradient, and select the transparency option shown below:

Here is how it looks when applied:

Step 2: Apply a Wave Filter

Now, let’s apply a filter to the gradient we created just now. Go to Filter > Distort > Wave,

Then, select “square” for the type of waves, enter 10 for the number of generators, wavelength 10% for min and 120% for max, amplitude 10% for min and 100% for max, and scale 50% for horizontal and 100% for vertical.

This is what you get now:

Step 3: Fill the Background with a Gorgeous Brunette Sheen

Now, let’s give a brilliant brunette color to the background. Go to your background layer underneath the gradient layer, then press (G) for the Gradient Tool, and enter the below color settings:

Next, drag the gradient across the canvas from left to right to achieve the gradient below:

Third, go to your layer with effects, and chose Linear Light for the Blending Mode

This is how your image looks now:

Step 4: Add a Brighter Shine to Your Brunette Color

Lets improve the color we’ve added in the previous step. Duplicate a copy of your background layer; go to your background layer, right click on it and select Duplicate Layer, and place it on top of your effects layer, and choose Soft Light for the Blending Mode.

The results:

Step 5: Place and Enhance Your Image

We’ve got our effects in place, and it’s time to add image to color. Grab the most inviting photo you can find of a woman in high heeled shoes to insert into your canvas. You can see the photo that we selected below:

Next, let’s create a drop shadow on the image; right click on your photo layer, select Blending Options, and go to Drop Shadow, enter 40pixel for the distance, 26% for the spread, and 57pixels for the size.

This is how your image looks now:

Step 6: Add Your Text and Format it with Special Effects

Now, we need to include a text message in our high heeled print newsletter template. We’ve used Century Gothic Font here.

However, plain text isn’t very appealing on a newsletter, so let’s create some effects on the text. Right click on your text layer, select Blending Options, go to Outer Glow, select Linear Dodge (Add) for the Blend more, capacity 100%, colour #F17E43, under elements, use Softer technique, spread 14%, size 18pixel, under Quality, use the contour election I used, and enter 1% for the range.

This is how it looks:

Step 7: Make the Text Look Like it is Reflected off Glass

Finally, let’s add some motion blur effect to the text (it makes the font look a little like there is a glass plate in front of it). Right click on your text layer, select Duplicate Layer, and then go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur, enter 45 for the angle and 280pixels for the distance.

Then change the layer capacity to 60%. This is how your text looks now:

So, we are done with tutorial, however, you can add in your text and any other images to it you might like.

Here’s how we completed ours in our final design:

You can download the High Class Heels print newsletter template with full PSD and AI source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the Cool Fresh Business CD/DVD Cover with full PSD source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Set Up Your Document Size and Ratio

We are creating a print ready CD Jewel Box Cover here, so we need to open up Photoshop, and create a new document; a perfect square 6.18 inches high x 6.18 inches wide, with a CMYK color profile, which will be the printing dimensions for your jewel box.

Step 2: Create the First Rainbow Stripes

Now, Create a new layer, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), and draw a rectangular shape across the canvas.

Step 3: Color, Rinse, and Repeat

Next, fill the rectangles with color #ff7700, and create another four stripes with the same steps above. Fill the new stripes with colors #fdb715, #549bc2, #6cb745 and #ea3125.

Step 4: Diagon-Alley

With our rainbow stripes set up and filled in, we will now rotate the rainbow diagonally across the corner of the cover. To rotate the stripes, select all the stripe layers, and then right click and select “Merge Layers”. Next, click “Control T” for a Free Transform, and rotate the stripes and position to something like below:

Step 5: Speckle the Rainbow (but never heckle the rainbow — two words: Leprechaun Revenge.)

So the rainbow s drawn, colored, and in the corner, but what’s retro about it? Nothing, that’s what. Therefore, we’re going to make it look grainy, altering the the crisp colors to look weathered. So, go to Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint, and select “coarse dots”. The results will be a bright rainbow, with a grainy texture.

Step 6: Add a Second Overlapping Rainbow

Next, right click on the stripes layer and select duplicate layer, which will of course duplicate the entire rainbow layer with all of its effects. Then, click “Control T” to rotate another set of stripes across the canvas.

Step 7: Fill the Background – Start With a Solid Color

Now, let’s work on the background. Start by filling the white background layer with a fresh blue; color #6fd0f6.

Step 8: I See Spots

Don’t you think a solid blue background complements the rainbow perfectly? Neither do I. So, let’s give create an effect – a spotted effect. Go to Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone and use 50 pixels for the radius.

Step 9: Make the Rainbow Pop

Now, let’s a white border to the stripes to make it stand out from the background. Go to the stripe layer, right click on it, and select “Blending Options”. Then, go to “Stroke” and enter 30 pixels for the size and white for the color.

Step 10: White Stripe Copy Cat

You can right click on the stripe layer with the stroke effect on it, and select “Copy Layer Style”, and then paste the Layer style on the other stripe layer without the stroke effect to duplicate the effect onto the second rainbow.

Step 11: Add a Picture to the Cover

Now, let’s add your image/icon in the design, we downloaded a fresh blue icon from bigstockphoto, and then placed it in the canvas.

Step 12: Stroke Your Image

We need to make the clip-art pop, just like we did to the rainbows. So, let’s apply the stroke effect on the icon layer. You can right click on the icon layer, and click “Paste effect” to paste the stroke effect you just copied from the stripes layer (what a handy short cut).

Step 13: Words are Worth a Thousand Pictures (or something)

Words are thoughts and we can’t think without’em (also, we wouldn’t remember what’s stored on the CD). So, let’s add our text in the design; go to dafont.com and download the Arista Font (on a side note, I really like saying “Arista”; Ar-ista, Arrr-leesta, Arrr!). Back on the main note, type your text and position in, and fill in the text with some fresh colors. Then, the final step is to add a white stroke effect from the stripes layer style you copied. Right click on the text layers and click “paste effect” to paste the stroke on the text:

You now have a neat-o, ready to print jewel box cover.

You can download the Cool Fresh Business CD/DVD Cover with full PSD source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the Painted Egg Greeting Card with full PSD source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Set Up Your Document Size and Fold

We’re making a print ready greeting card here, not a web design template, so let’s start by creating a document with an 11 inch width and a height of 8.8 inches. Since this is going to be a folding greeting card, we’re just going to use one side of the document for the design. Therefore, we need to create a fold/guide line in the middle so that we know where the boundary for the design is. Turn on the ruler by pressing control R, and then you can see the total width of the document from the ruler; you just have to divide the document width into 2 sections and drag the ruler to the middle point. Here’s how it looks:

Step 2: Paint the Background in Pastels

Now, we can start painting our background. Create a new layer, select the Brush (B), and set the the diameter to 500 pixels.

Then create a new layer and pick the colour you prefer, and you can start painting. You can have as many colours as you prefer but just remember to have a new layer for each different colour. This is the colours I used: #1f9adc (blue), #f5ec64 (yellow), and #c0f564 (Green). This is how my painting looks:

Step 3: Make the Paint Look More Smooth and Fluid

Next, let’s add some effects to the paint. Go to Filter >Sketch >Water Paper and use the following settings: Fiber Length = 15, Brightness = 60, and Contrast = 80

This is how it looks now:

Step 4: Create Eggs from Scratch

What’s an Easter greeting card without Easter Eggs? To draw some eggs into the design layout, select the Ellipse Tool (U) and draw a shape that resembles an egg like the one shown below:

Step 5: Dye Your Easter Eggs

Remember how much fun it was dying Easter Eggs as a kid? This next step is nothing like that. Right click on the egg layer and select Blending Options, go to Gradient and use the settings shown below:

Step 6: Speckle the Eggs

We’ve dyed the eggs with a base coat, often referred to as the “primary egg surfacing” in the Easter biz, but we’re not making golden eggs, we’re making Easter Eggs. So, now, let’s draw something on the egg. We’ve chosen something simple for our first egg, small colorful circles. Create a new layer and use the Ellipse Tool to draw a few circles in different sizes and colors, like the example below:

Step 7: Curve Your Paint Job

The following things are not flat: the world, a marble, your head, Joy from “till death”, and this here egg. Therefore, we need to curve the paint speckles that we’ve just applied in the above step so that they conform to the curvature of the embryonic Easter symbol. So, lets first merge all circles into one layer; select all your circle layers, right click, and select Merge Layers. Then, click control T to transform, right click on it, and select Warp. Next, on top of the left screen there will be a drop down menu for the warp, from the menu just select Bulge.

Drag the top and bottom points to match the shape of the egg like what’s shown below:

Now, let’s do another warp for the side of the egg. Click Control T, right click for the warp, and drag on the side edges to fit the egg.

Step 8: Add Further Dimension to the Egg

Let’s create a soft inner shadow on the egg to make it look more 3 dimensional. Click on the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M), and draw a smaller egg shape like the one shown below:

Then, create a new layer, and fill it with a black transparent gradient

Next, select ‘Soft Light’ mode on the gradient layer. Here are the results:

Step 9: Final Touches

We’re done with one egg; you can create a few more eggs to fill up the card. We’ve added 3 eggs to our card, and wrote a short Easter message on it; here’s how it looks:

We’ve also made several other varieties and sizes of our greeting card as seen below:

You can download the Painted Egg Greeting Card with full PSD source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Required Items:

You can download the Nature Care Template and it’s tidy clip-on note navigation, with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Start With a Basic Rectangle

As usual, create a new document in any size. Next, let’s start drawing the size of the clip on note. Get the Rectangle Tool, and then draw a rectangular shape on your document.

Step 2: Make a Cut for the Fold

Next, cut off the top left corner of the rectangle, as we need to make a curve in paper corner. Select the Scissor Tool, and cut off the corner, and you will get a result like the below diagram.

Step 3: Create a Shadow for the Paper Bend

Now, grab the gradient tool and set the color setting to light grey (Cyan 8%, Magenta 6%, Yellow 6%, and Black 0%) and white. Pull the direction from the top left corner to the bottom, just like the below diagram.

Step 4: Drawing the Curl

It’s time to draw the curled up paper corner, so grab your pen tool and draw a curved triangle at the top left corner.

Then, fill it with the same gradient setting as above, and again pull it from the top left to right bottom, just like the below example.

Step 5: Add a Shadow Under the Curl

Now, add a little small shadow below the page curl. Grab your pen tool again and draw a semi-circle and fill it with black to white gradient.

Next, Gaussian Blur the semi circle with the setting of 2.5 pixels and set the transparency to 20%.

Step 6: Give the Note a Background Shadow

So now we add in the background shadow for the clip on note. Select your note and hold on to ALT, and then drag and you will have another similar note. Then, fill it with black and set the transparency to 30%. Now, go to Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set 4 pixels.

Step 7: Move the Shadow Behind the Paper

Move the shadow 3 pixels down and to the right. Then hold on to Ctrl + Shift and press the character ‘[‘, this will move the shadow to behind the paper.

Step 8: Outline the Paperclip

Now, we have our piece of paper, but it won’t stay up on your website without some form of a clip. So, let’s start with drawing the clip for it by using the rounded rectangle. Next, we need to grab the mesh tool to make a 3D gradient look. To do this, click on the top center of the rounded rectangle tool, and click the second mark on the bottom, just like the below.

Step 9: Color the Clip

Now that the basic shape of the clip is created, we need to fill it in. Therefore, get the Direct Selection Tool and click on the center path, and move it towards from top to bottom. Then, fill it with darker gray for the top selection and the lighter gray for the bottom selection.

Step 10: Give Dimension to the Clip

Now, you will see some tones in top of the clip, but it is still flat and one dimensional looking. To fix this, we’re going to need to give the clip a side surface, so select the clip, duplicate it, fill it with plain gray, and move towards the back.

Step 11: Add the Back Clip

We’ve gotten the front of the clip made, however clips have two pieces that press against each other, so there’s still only one half of the clip. Therefore, we need to make the back half of the clip; select everything and duplicate again for the other clip handle. Move it behind the first handle and rotate it to -30%. Then, move it towards the paper and rotate it again -10% and finally add a dot at the center bottom of the clip.

Step 12: Add a Frame/Border Inside the Note

Ok, so, the paper is now hung up on the clip, and we have a navigation that will hold up to anything nature can throw at it, except for a mild breeze, a little rain, or high humidity. Now we’re just going to dress it up a little bit by adding a little picture frame looking inner area to contain our nav text. Thereafter, draw another rectangle and fill it with light green (7C9A3D) and set the transparency to 10% at the center of the note.

Step 13: Add the Outer Frame to Create a Thick Border

Next, draw another bigger rectangle behind the light green for the frame’s border, and duplicate another one for the shadow behind it. Finally, select all 3 rectangles and rotate 2%.

And we are DONE… Now you can copy and paste it as vector in your Photoshop document and create your navigation bar just like below.

Here’s how it appears in the final Nature Care Web Template

You can download the Nature Care Template and it’s tidy clip-on note navigation, with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the St Pat Promo Flyer Template with full PSD source in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Create a New Document Filled with an Irish Green Gradient

Let’s start with creating a new document with the size of 9 inches x 13 inches. Fill it with a radial gradient by using #587700 as the foreground color, and #2e3e00 as the background color.

Step 2: Texturize the Background

Next, press D to reset the foreground and background color to its original mode, which is black and white. Then, create a new layer on top of the green background and render a Cloud effect on it. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds, and then press ok. Next let’s choose ‘Overlay’ mode and capacity 20% for the cloud’s layer.

Step 3: Frame-in the Flyer

Now, let’s create a black border around the document. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to create a selection with a little space around document like the below, and press Shift F6 to create a Feather of 100pixels.

Next, create a new layer and select Shift + Control + I to inverse the selection and fill it with black. Here are the results:

Step 4: Modify the Border with a Wave

Now, we’re going to modify the design of the border by adding a wave. We do this for two reasons, the first is to add a more dramatic edge, and the second is to distract the leprechauns in an attempt to recover the vodka they’ve taken. Remember, never underestimate a thirsty leprechaun. Go to Filter > Distort > Waves and use 400 for the wave length:

This is how your image should look now:

Step 5: Back lighting the Logo Area

Next, let’s create a light glow to the background; this will help the logo pop when we finally add it in the next steps below. Start by using the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) and use 30 pixels for the feather. The circle should be centered and fill about 2/3 of the page width.

Then, fill it with a white transparency gradient:

Now, select ‘Overlay’ mode for the light glow layer you just created. Here are the results:

Step 6: Carve Your Text in Wood

This step portion contains 7 little mini steps to apply a variety of effects to your flyer logo.

Step 6A

Now, lets type out the text for the logo. For our logo, we used the steelfish font:

Then, right click on the text layer and apply the following effects to it:

Step 6B

Inner Glow:

Step 6C

Bevel and Emboss:

Step 6D

Texture:

Step 6E

Satin:

Step 6F

Gradient Overlay:

Step 6G

Stroke:

The result!

Step 7: Add a Trail of Glowing Lights

Time to make the logo area a little more festive by adding a trail of glowing lights in front of the text. Use the path tool (P) and create a trail similar to the below:

Then, open the Brush Window by clicking Window > Brushes and select the 100pixels wide Brush:

After that, click on the shape dynamics box and enter 578% in the scatter box:

Next, create a new layer, and with the Path tool still selected, right click on the path you created just now, and select stroke path. Once completed, select brush and tick stimulate pressure in the pop up window:

This is how your image should look now:

Next let’s select ‘overlay’ mode and capacity in the glowing layer you just created:

Step 8: Add Some Festive Graphics

We are almost done, and you can add some elements to it to spice it up a little, we downloaded some from bigstockphoto and sprinkled them around the logo area like green jimmies on a festive doughnut:

There we have it. We then used our textured canvas and logo to complete our St. Pat Promo Flyer Template:

Thanks for reading, and be sure to celebrate until the leprechauns come!

You can download the St Pat Promo Flyer Template with full PSD source BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the Fantasy Village Template with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Let There Be Sky

First, create a new document with the size of 1200 x 950 pixels. Next, we fill it with a sky color -a soft blue gradient. Set the foreground color to# 60c2d6 and the background color to #d7f0f5. Here are the results:

Step 2: Let There Be Land

Now, let’s create the ground. Start with creating a simple curve with a pen tool and fill it with color #99c83e. Here are the results of this template design:

Next, let’s give a little depth to the ground by giving it some gradient. Right click on the ground layer and use the below settings for the gradient:

The results should be like so:

Step 3: Let There Be Shrooms

Ok, the basic scene is set with the sky and earth, now it’s time to start filling in the landscape, so let’s create a fun mushroom village. This part will take some drawing technique to draw the shape, and you can take any mushroom as a reference. Use the pen tool as shown below and draw a few wavy lines similar to the shape of a mushroom. To draw the lines, just click and drag a line across the image using the pen tool that you selected. This is how our mushroom looks:

To complete the mushroom shape, let’s create a black stroke around it with the settings below:

Step 4: Let The Shrooms Be Decorated and Ornate

Next, let’s create some circles on top of the mushroom for a spotted look, after all, the Smurfs had spots on top of their mushrooms in Smurf Village. Use the eclipse tool (U) and draw a few oval shapes above the mushroom, fill it with any color you prefer, and then paste it with the stroke we create above. Right click on the eclipse layers and choose create clipping mask so that it all appears inside the top mushroom section.

Here is how the mushroom should look now. You can place the white spots anywhere you like:

Next, the mushroom hut needs an entrance, so let’s create a door. You pick brown you prefer, or you can use the color we used: #cd8652. Use the rectangle shape create the door, and place in above the mushroom stand layer, and create a mask to it just like the above step. Here’s how it’s going to look:

Step 5: Let There Be a Village

We are done with one mushroom house, you can duplicate them and place them all around the ground and lay them out the way you like. Here’s how ours were placed:

Step 6: Let There Be a Road and Trees

Then let’s add a road path and some trees to it. Using the pen tool, just draw the path freely in the middle of the ground just like the below, and then apply the gradient effect you have on the ground layer onto it.

Now let’s add some trees, and some walk paths to it using the pen tool to draw a tree, and duplicate it and place it all over.

Step 7: Let There Be a Template

Now let’s use the rectangle tool (U) to draw a white shape for the content area, and place it below the ground layer so it is behind all the elements:

To add some final touches to it, you can select the custom shape tool (U), go to the nature section and pick some clouds, and other elements to the design:

Here’s is the final look of it. You can place your content in the content area.

Here is how we finished off our design:

Thanks for reading!

You can download the Fantasy Village Template with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

You can download the Interstellar Sports Template with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.

Step 1: Setting the Header Size

Let’s start by creating the header size of the design. Click Control N to create a new document and set it to 910pixels x 400pixels. Next, we grab the get an Alien Base photo, we got ours from bigstockphoto. This is the one used in the Interstellar Sports template:

Step 2: Applying the Image to the Header

Next, let’s drag the Alien Base photo to the header you just created.

Step 3: Placing the Sports Photos

Now, we have to get a few sports photos. Below are the ones used in this web template:

Now, let’s get them in the header, just press Control V on the photos, and drag them in to the header. You can place them anywhere you prefer. These are how the above were placed:

Step 4: Adjusting the Blending Mode of the Photos:

Next, we have to adjust the blending mode for each photo. We are going to be using “Hard Light” mode for each of the photos. Just click on each of the photo layers respectively and change the mode to “Hard Light”.

Step 5: Adding Motion to the Photos

Now, let’s create some motion to the photos. First, let’s duplicate the photo by right clicking on the layer, and selecting ‘Duplicate Layer’.

Then go to Filters > Blur > Motion Blur and use distance:30pixels and angle: 30.

Now let’s change the blending mode on the motions layer to ‘Lighter Color’ as shown below:

This is how the photo going to look:

Next, let’s repeat Step 5 for the rest of the two photos. These are the results when you have completed Step 5 for all the photos:

Step 6: Creating a New Planet in the Sky

Now, we’ll learn to create a new planets from scratch and add them to the header. Let’s create a new layer underneath all the sports layer, and select Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) from the tool bar. Create the circle anywhere you like and be sure to hold down the Shift Key for a proportional circle. And fill it with #4fe5ff.

Step 7: Render Difference Cloud Effects on the Planet

Next, let’s create some effects on the planet, go to Filter > Render > Difference Clouds

We need to apply this filter for a few more times to get the desire effect, just press Control F for another 5times for the planet to look like the below:

Step 8: Make the New Planet 3D

Now we have to make the planet stand out, with the planet layer selected, hold down the Control key to make the selection, then go to Filter > Distort > Spherize.

And use 100% for the amount, and normal for mode.

Step 9: Give the Planet an Eerie Glow

Now we need to add some inner and outer glow effects to the planet to make it look like a true nighttime celestial object. Go to the planet layer, right click on it, and select Blending Options, and use the below settings:

Step 10: Name Your New Planet

Every planet has to have a name – even Pluto has a name, and it’s not even considered a planet anymore. We named our planet Baconia, where bacon grows in abundance and is never in short supply.

(Note: This bacon is actually from earth, and not from Baconia. It is an artist’s conception of how bacon from Baconia may appear.)

This is how our final header looks now:

Here’s how the header was used in the final template:

You can download the Interstellar Sports Template with full PSD source files and sliced table free HTML pages for this template in BoxedArt’s members section, as well as thousands of other website templates and web design products. Get a membership here.