Corkboard Myspace Layout

Guest tutorials explained

Over the years I've been writing many Adobe Photoshop tutorials and recently been writing for additional categories such as Cinema 4D and CSS. Now since I helped a lot of people with my tutorials it just seems right to have the option for members to give something back to the Celox design community by submitting there self-written tutorials to this site, keep in mind that it's not a tutorial engine instead all submitted tutorials will be re-published on this site.

Members that will submit there tutorials on this site will be awarded with a link back to there own website on the specific tutorial's page, this link will be in text format so it will most definitely improve your search engine ranking.

Intro:

What is "Corkboard"? Its a place where you and your friends can post photos and notes to one another in a shared spot. MySpace profile for Corkboard Photography with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.

Step 1:

Start by opening a 500x259 px file. Select the Marquee Tool (press M, ), make a new layer and fill it with: #d7b78b

Step 2:

Now add some Noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise):



and you`ll have:

Step 3:

Now we need a border of 6px:
There a several ways to do it. One of them is to take the Pencil Tool with a diamenter of 6 px and Hardness of 0% and draw a border around the corkboard using this color: #8b4f13.

And this is your corkboard:

Step 4:

Let`s add a photography to it. Using Marquee Tool (Press M) make a selection:



and fill it with white. Then apply Drop Shadow using these settings:



Select a photography and using Edit > Transform > Scale or Ctrl+T shring the image to fit in your selection. Use for eg. Georgia font, Bold, size: 15px and write a text on it.



You can also add some scotch tape to hold your photo more realistic, select Lasso Tool (press L):



and fill it with: #ffcc00 then set the transparency to: 40%



Photoshop Tip: Use Burning Tool to make the tape more realistic. Use these settings:



Make sure you are on the 'scotch layer' and holding ALT key you`ll slide the tool over the tape twice:



Having this example you can duplicate the posting and write anything you like on it even to change the shape of the tape and stick it in a different position.

the result will be: