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In-Or-Out
Header and SideBar HootyTut© by Doyle Allen aka Hooty 6/27/04 Approved by the HootyTutTesters!
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2 Graphic, wider than it is long. Note: Too dark of a graphic will ruin the dropshadow effect that is used.
3 In-Or-Out Template ======================== Header – Phase 1
1 Open the graphic, using the guidelines above to decide which one to use.
2 View / Zoom / OUT by 5 You will need to keep the graphic handy, so by making it smaller it takes up less space but will still be handy.
2 Edit / Copy
3 Open the template, Shift + D to duplicate, then close the original for safekeeping. The Red Layer named Top should already be the active layer, and the marching ants should already be running around the top.
4 Ctrl + Shift + L (or Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
5 Make Yellow Right the active layer in your layers palette.
6 Magic Wand: Click on the right Yellow triangle. Settings:
7 Ctrl + Shift + L (or Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
8 Make Green Left the active layer
9 Magic Wand: Select the left Green triangle.
10 Ctrl + Shift + L (or Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
11 Click on your graphic, Image / Flip
12 Edit / Copy
13 Go back to your working layers palette & Click on your Blue Bottom LOL no the one on your layers palette silly!
14 Magic Wand: Click on the bottom blue image
15 Ctrl + Shift + L (or Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
16 Ctrl + D (or Selections / Select None)
17 On the layers palette I have some opacity %’s for the layers as a guideline. If you use these the finished appearance will have a little more dimension in the appearance.. You may choose to leave them all at 100%, or maybe just adjust the Blue bottom layer for a reflection effect… This is a creative decision you need to make on your own. I think different graphics that you may use will lend themselves to different settings for the best appearance.
18 Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
19 (a) Turn off the merged layer (b) Turn on the Borders layer (c) Make the Borders layer the active layer
20 Magic Wand: Select the black borders with one click.
21 F (Flood Fill Tool) Fill with a grainy, like wood or patterned fill. Warning: Plain fills like solid colors seem to want to give the borders the jaggies which do not look so good.
Use whatever fill or effect you like.
22 If it needs a bevel, use one. I am using Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel Settings: Bevel #2, Width = 5, Smoothness = 3, Depth = 3 Ambience = 10, Shininess = 0, Color = White Angle = 315, Intensity = 50, Elevation = 30
23 Effects / 3D Effects / DropShadow Settings: Vertical = 11, Horizontal = 1 Opacity = 100, Blur = 15 Color = Black, Shadow on new layer = unchecked
24 Selections / Select None
25 Turn all your layers on so you can see what you now have. Note: If you have slid the opacity back on any of your layers earlier, you may want to flood fill your Background Fill layer with a different color. The color you choose will definitely change the appearance for the good or the bad depending on what you use. Black or a dominant color from your graphic is usually the best ones to use.
26 Layers / Merge / Merge All (flatten)
====================================== Header - Phase 2
1 Edit / Copy Layers / Promote Background Layer if it is a background layer .
2 Image / Canvas Size Settings:
3 Magic Wand: Select the transparent rectangle on the left side of your header image
4 Ctrl + Shift + L (or Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
5 Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds Settings: Width = 10, Opacity = 30, Color = Black Horizontal & Light from left/top both = Checked.
6 Select the transparent rectangle on the right side of your header image
7 Ctrl + Shift + L (or Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection)
8 Image / Mirror
9 Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds
10 Ctrl + A (or Selections / Select All)
11 Selections / Modify / Contract = 5
12 Ctrl + Shift + i (or Selections / Invert
13 (F) Flood Fill Tool: Fill the new border selection with a fill of you own choosing. You might just want to use the same as you did on the previous borders.
14 Optional: Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel
15 Ctrl + D (or Selections / Select None)
16 Add a layer and add your watermark, merge all your layers if you’d like and save to your files.
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Side Bar
1 Edit / Copy your entire header
2 Edit / Paste / Paste as a New Image
Layers/Promote Background layer if it is named Background Layer!
3 Image / Rotate / Rotate Clockwise 90°
4 Image / Resize = 90 x 138 Settings: Lock Ratio = Unchecked All Layers = Checked
5 Image / Canvas Size Settings: New Dimensions Width = 90, Height = 450, pixels Click on the top center placement dot that has the arrow pointing straight up! The bottom reading on the right should say 312
6 Layers / Duplicate
7 Image / Flip
8 Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
9 Magic Wand: Click on the transparent area
10 Click on your original graphic Note: You may want to Image Flip or undo it depending on how you want it to show in your SB.
Edit / Copy
11 Go back to the Side Bar, Edit / Paste / Paste into selection
12 Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds
13 Selections / Select None
14 Image / Add Borders = 5 symmetric
15 Magic Wand: Select the new border
16 F (Flood Fill Tool) Fill and use the same effects that you used on your header borders.
17 Selections / Select None
18 Sharpen or enhance if you’d like.
19 Save as your side bar.
===================================== Remember to Watermark your creations! **************************************** **************************************** Approved
by the HootyTutTestersGroup! Thanks to all the great testers that help me to make these tutorials as good as they are! The testers are always a vital part of the end results of what you end up using. Special thanks to all the testers that participated: They are: Pat, KMRA, Maria Rosa, Jacqueline, Sue , Linda D., Jynx, Calvin, Janet, Michelle, Roni, Diane and Adrienne.
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