Website Splash Page - Guest Tutorial
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Intro:
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to make a cool website splash page, At the end of this tutorial you will be able to make something like this:
Step 1:
Well, let`s start this photoshop tutorial shall we.
Create a new 600px by 600px document, and fill it with #333333 color. Using your Rounded Rectangle Tool
create a square and lower the opacity of the layer to 15%. You will have something like this.
Step 2:
Inside of it create another square with the rounded rectangle tool, and use these blending options:

Applying these blending options you should have something like this.
Step 3:
Inside the previous made rectangle we will make another 2 smaller rectangles, using the rounded rectangle tool again. These smaller rectangles will be used for enterring the website. Now apply these blending options to it:

Now under the main grey rectangle, using a brush add a shadow on a new layer and lower the opacity of this layer to 40%. You`ll now have something like this:

After adding some text with the text tool, here's what I've came up with:

Thanks for reading this photoshop tutorial.