Hello my friends

Today i will show you how to create another layout for a Tutorial website
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This is the Tutorial Number 93 from our 100 Tutorial Marathon
Soon this marathon will end, and i will start another one. I will not tell you how many tutorials i will create in my future marathon

This is what we gone do today



So let's start with a new document
Size 760 x 770 pixels
Background color: #253a4f

Now create a new pattern
Create another document:


Zoom this document to 1600% and with the Pencil Tool Draw 3 points:



After that go to Edit > Define Pattern...
Choose a name for your pattern and press OK
To learn more about patterns , please visit the following link.
http://www.talk-mania.com/showthread.php?t=37

Then you can close this 3 by 3 pixel document , and go back on our main layout

Create a new layer ( press CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N )
Select Paint Bucket tool,
Use the following settings



Then click one time on your canvas
Then add the following layer style
This is the result



Now create a new layer ( press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+N )
Select Brush Tool ( Use a big grunge brush - You can find a lot of grunge brushes if you search with google )
And make some random drawings with your grunge brush
Change the blending mode for this layer to Linear dodge



Then select Rectangle tool , and create a big shape with white. Then change the opacity value to 20 %



Rasterize the white shape ( Layer > Rasterize > Shape )
Now Select Eraser Tool, Choose the spatter brush ( 46 pixels )
This brush you have already in your photoshop



Then start to erase some parts of the white shape
After a few minutes this is what i have



Basically i want to create a nice border for the shape
Now with the Rectangle Tool create some shapes, and place then like me
Use the following color #252728



Now reduce the opacity for this layers to 90 %



Grab one more time Rectangle Tool and create another rectangles
This time use this color: #111111



Then Add another rectangles , but this time use the following color: # 3e3e3e
You can notice that i have added also some text



Select Type Tool , Choose a random font, and use a small size. with this settings create some dots lines " ........ "
And place this lines like me
( you can also merge all the layers with dots - to merge all the layers, select the "dots" layer and press on CTRL+E



Now select Rounded Rectangle Tool ( set the radius to 10 pixels ), and make a simple shape



Then rotate the shape to 45 degrees ( to rotate the shape press CTRL+T ) and you can change the settings very fast.
This is my result



Then create another 5 shapes with Rounded Rectangle Tool,
After you rotate the shapes , place the shapes like me



Then for the big shape add the following layer styles













This is the result ( for this layer you can also change the opacity settings to 90 % )



Now apply the following layer styles for the other shapes

















This is the result



Now add some text



Now for the Talk-Mania text i will add the following layer style











This is the result



Now add more images and text on your layout



Also you can add one more time some dot lines



Now i will add some arrows near the navigation text
Create a new layer ( press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+N )
Zoom your document to 1600 % , and with your pencil tool create ( set the brush to 1 pixel ) something like in the following image
Please use 2 different colors



Then duplicate this small layer as many times you want, and place it near each tutorial category



This is My result. You can leave the layout as it is right now, or you can go further with another method



Please select all the layers with black shapes.



Then press on CTRL+E to merge all the files

Select Eraser Tool, Set the brush to Spatter brush 46 pixels, then start erasing the margin of the blacks shapes

This is my final layout



I hope you like it
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I like it. My only thing is the grunge brush. I think they look nice but it may only be me but I think a nice tech brush set might look interesting with the square layout you have going there. Very nice nontheless.

This is a decent template. I don't really like the background. It's kind of an odd one. The grunge look is pretty over used IMO.

Thanks anyways.

nice tutorial.... how do we slice this?? the background is included, so will this page load longer???

I absolutely love finding out new ways to do things. Some of the things you do i didn't even know existed. Thanks from all of us newbies!

Nice. A Little to small and little to grainy. Looks low quality. The Design is nice Well done Admin!

Thankyou admin for your support

Im always learning here

Thanks! Mine is not so good as yours, but i learned a few things

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3030/layout1sk0.jpg

thQs great really great

its "simple" but effective.. i really like it....

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