Vista styled menu Tutorial
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Intro:
Learn how to create a Vista styled menu in 11 steps.
Step 1:
Open up the following image in photoshop.
Set your foreground color to #545d66, then make a shape similar like mine below with the rounded rectangle tool
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You can rasterize the shape if your happy with the result or leave as it is, now rename the Shape 1 to "Menu Base".
Change the opacity to 31% in the layers pallette.
Step 2:
Now that we have our base it's time to add a gradient stroke. HOLD the CTRL key on your keyboard and click the "Menu base" layer to make a selection of the base. Then make a new layer (Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+N), name this layer "Stroke". Then right-click in the project window and choose Stroke. Use a 1 px width, color: #000000 and location: Inside rest leave as it is.
Then right-click the Stroke layer in the layers pallette and choose blending options, check the box infront of Gradient overlay and change its settings to below.
Step 3:
The step we take now it actually kinda optional but I advice you to make it anyways, since you can view the 2 differences when we're done and see which one you like better. So let's get it going.
Duplicate the layer that contains the photo of the Dubai hotel, and name it "Blur layer". Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur and change the radius to 5.6 pixels, click OK. Change the opacity to 67%.
Step 4:
Now it's time to add some brush lightning and a curved shine.
Make a new layer named Brush, change the foreground color to white (#FFFFFF).
take a 30px soft brush 
and make a nice curving brush on the left of the shape, it's nice to have a tablet at this point 
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If you don't have a tablet like me you can use the pentool to make a nice smooth curve. Take the pentool 
Set it on Paths, make a nice curving path. Then right-click the path and choose "Stroke path", from the dropdown menu choose brush and hit OK.
Make another smaller brush going from the bottom-right corner to the middle of the shape.
If you went out of the shape with the brushing do the following. Hold CTRL and click "Menu base" layer, and hit Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selection, Hit delete.
