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Modern and Colorful web layout

The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Outer Glow

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Next we’ll represent the menu’s buttons on the site’s header. Create a new layer and use the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) while pressing SHIFT button to draw a white circle.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Choose Free Transform option to compress the spot by its vertical line and elongate it horizontally.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make a copy of the last made layer and apply the option Fill – 20% for the lowest layer, but for the copy’s layer the option from below: Blending mode-Overlay

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

This will represent the top border of the panel with the menu’s buttons on the site’s header. Make a copy of the recently made top border of the menu. Choose then Free Transform option to make the copy smaller with the effect Fill – 20% (press SHIFT button) and change the places of the copies’ layers. The layer with Fill – 20% effect should be placed above, but on the bottom – the layer with the effect Blending mode-Overlay

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Next we need to represent a highlight on the left side of the top border of the menu’s buttons the same way we did earlier by compressing the circle to get the menu’s elements. The highlight has white color and the new element should be inserted on a new layer.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make after two copies of the layer containing the highlight. The first copy will be situated lower (on the layers’ panel), choosing Free Transform option to enlarge it a little.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Choose these parameters for the copy layer: Blending mode-Soft Light

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

The second copy will be placed under the previous one (on the layers’ panel)

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Insert now the titles for the menu’s buttons:

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Introduce now the pictures we need under the panel containing the menu’s buttons on the site’s header.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make copies of the pictures from the bottom range. Use Free Transform option to turn them over, put them into a rasterized layer and place them below:

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make a mouse click on the same layer on the layers’ panel on Add a Mask selection and select a standard brush of black color (Opacity 30%) to clean out the bottom part of the reflection.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

On the last stage we’ll insert the copyright.

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a trendy portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Finished!

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