This tut will show you how to make user bars like this :



1.Open up A new doc. size 350x19.
2.get yourself a logo choose colors.
3.With the colors u chose, make a gradient line till you get desierd effect.
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5.Get Your logo,Put it on the bar,I put it on the left but you can put it any where you want
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7.Now the text, use a small pixel font, I used visitor Right click on the text layer, click blending options, color overlay and set it as white, stroke set it as black, do what you want but thats the most common.

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9.Get the elliptical marqee tool and highlight the top half. These two steps are not required, it just gives a shine to the top part
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11.GO->SELECT->FEATHER and set it to 10
12.now get the gradient tool and change the pallet coulors to the same as highligted then drag the gradient down or up which ever suits you.
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14.now put in some scan lines and set opticity to 10-20 whatever is good
15.and finaly press ctrl + a and go to edit->stroke and make a 1 pxl border.
16.Final


and then you can make more that you want....







there you go.


Hope you enjoyed the tut

i dont know how you guys do that? i suck at this

not that hard keep trying. goo dluck

by the way good tutorial could go into more detail though on some parts.

I must start at the beginning first or the basic to relate what you're doing right now.

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Just what I looked for, thanx

Nice tut. i have some idea for my userbar thx man

Very good tutorial, clear and short.

Awesome tut, ive always wanted to make some of these.

Very nice, thank you!~