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Another tip: if you adjust the shape while the bounding box is visible, the Free Transform tool becomes active and its options bar will display the position of the bounding box. With this bounding box you can reshape the rectangle as you would in Adobe Illustrator the only difference is that you have to double-click in the rectangle when you are finished resizing. If you need to adjust the shape later, you can do so with the Path Component Selection tool, with the option Show Bounding Box checked in the options bar. While this particular design could also be re-created with tables, it is much more suitable for frames and we want to design the arch that is later going to be in the top frame.Ĭreate a new layer in the Layers palette (by clicking on the Create New Layer button) and use the Rectangle tool to draw a shape that's 95 pixels tall and offset from the top by 20 pixels you will have to zoom in to do this precisely. This decision affects what you can and can't do when designing in Photoshop. Creating the arch: when designing a Web site in Photoshop, you should decide early on whether you intend to use frames or just tables when you prepare the HTML. Your sidebar is done.īox, select Pattern Overlay and pick the previously saved pattern.Ģ.

To fill it with the pattern, create a pattern overlay layer effect: choose Layer > Layer Style > Pattern Overlay, and select the pattern that you saved previously from the pop-up menu. In the Layers palette, you can see the new layer with its clippingĭraw a 150-pixel-wide rectangle for the sidebar it will fill with the foreground color. Rectangle tool, make sure that No Style is selected in the options bar.

You are now ready to create a layer with a layer clipping path: usually this would require that you first create a new layer, but since this is a new document and we are working on the background layer, Photoshop will create a new layer for you automatically. To create the actual sidebar, use the Rectangle tool, but before you start, make sure to select the Create New Shape Layer option and check that No Style is selected from the Layer Style pop-up menu. Switch back to your first document and display the rulers ( View > Show Rulers). You won't need this document anymore, but you can save it for later in case you want to edit it. Palette and make sure that the Only Web-Safe Colors option is selectedĮdit > Define Pattern will store this small document as a pattern. To define a color, click on the Foreground Color field in the Tools Use the maximum magnification to paint the pixels with the Pencil Light gray (RGB: 204, 204, 204), the second pixel is a dark gray (RGB: 102,ġ02, 102), and the third and fourth pixels are a medium gray (RGB: 153, 153,ġ53). The fill pattern make it four pixels wide by one tall. New Contents: Background Color), create a second (temporary) document for Creating a sidebar: after creating a new 640圆00 file ( File > Site shows you some of Photoshop's new features.ġ. I will walk you through every step of the development from the design-showing you some of the new features of Photoshop 6-through the optimization of the images, up to the point of creating an HTML page in GoLive. For this reason, I created this simple mock-up for a (fictitious) consulting company that uses many of the elements that you find in real-world Web sites. The best way to learn is to read about it and then do it. This article is excerpted from chapter 6 of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Web Design by Michael Baumgardt.