Full gaming template Tutorial
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Step 5:
Add a gradient shine like below, if you don't know how, follow the shine layer tutorial.
Ctrl+Click the original header layer, make a new layer on top of every other header related layer and name it shadows. Take the brush-tool with a big soft brush (125px) for the top and bottom shadow, and for the left and right sides a smaller (80px) brush.
Last thing we have to do for the header is add a levels adjustment layer to lighten up this header some more. Hit the New adjustment layer icon
And choose "Levels", then add these values from left to right, 13, 1.00, 122. Add some extra stuff to this header, I added a text on the hill and a extra practise-shooting-board in front of the text to give it a more detailed look.
Group all these newly made layers into a group called Header.
Step 6:
Make a new layer called pattern, take the rectangular marquee tool and make a fixed selection of 954px width, and 8px height. Make the selection and fill it with white.
Then make a new document (Ctrl+N) 3px by 3px, to make our last pattern we need for this template. And make a pattern like below.
Go to our template project and right-click the pattern layer, and choose blending options, change the gradient overlay, and pattern overlay to the values below.
Duplicate the pattern layer, HOLD shift and press down 4 times, this should give you the following result.
Step 7:
Make a new layer called "Menubar", Make a fixed selection with 954px width and 27px height, and fill it with #07090d. We want the both left and right menu to be 200px wide, so we need some sort of measuring layer, so make a fixed selection of 200px width, leave the height as it is. make a new layer and fill it with a noticeable color, like red. Now cut out a 2px width piece out of the menubar layer outside our measurement like so.
And do the same on the right as seen above. Hide the measurement layer.
Step 8:
Select the gradient tool, hit D then X to make white the foreground color, select the foreground to background gradient.
Ctrl+ click the menubar layer, make a new layer called shine. And make a shine somewhat similar to mine. My shine was started from outside the selection, just experiment until you have a result you like. I did nothing with the blending options so this result was only done with what I explained above.
To finish of the shine we need to make it look like a indent shine, which I personally like A LOT. Ctrl+Click the menubar layer, select the shine layer, go to > Select > Modify > Contract use a 1px value, hit OK. Hit Ctrl+Shift+I to make the selection inverse and hit delete on your keyboard to delete the outer 1px edge of the shine, which should give you the result below.
Step 9:
Make indent lines with a 1px pencil-tool, for the light lines I used #FFFFFF, and for the dark lines I used #b2bbc4. the lines are placed 1px below the pattern layer and in the gap of the deleted part of the menubar. Place all newly made layers in a group called "Menubar". That's basically our main design but we need some finishing touches.