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| This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a modern portfolio layout. Click Image Below to Enlarge. |
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| First of all, make a new Photoshop document, with dimensions of 770x600. Create black a rectangle (image a) using the rounded rectangle tool, with a radius of 20. Make a selection, using the rectangular marquee tool, the width of the rounded rectangle. Set the foreground color to dark grey/blue (32393C) and the background color to a lighter tone (485D69). Choose the gradient tool, set it to reflected gradient, and zoom in to 300% magnication. Create a new layer and drag the distance and direction of the red arrow, to create the gradient (image b). |
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| Zooming out to 100%, the gradient should look something like image a). Next, create a new layer and create a selection below the reflection gradient. Set the foreground color to a light aqua (C0FAFF) color and the background to a darker tone. Change the gradient tool to linear and drag the distance and direction of the red arrow (image b), to create another gradient. |
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b) Click Image to Enlarge |
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| Create another linear gradient on the same layer, this time using a darker blue (7AE4F0) for the foreground color and a purple (5E8FAF) for the background. Next, use the polygonal lasso tool to create a selection, for the shape shown in image b). Use a new layer for this and fill the selection with blue (47A3C3) |
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| Duplicate the shape several times, spreading them across the layout, and then merge them all into a single layer. Create a selection, using the gradient layer below it, and use it to cut (layer via cut) the diagonal shapes into a new layer. Delete the layer of the shapes, that's outside of the gradient area (image b). |
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b) Click Image to Enlarge |
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