Design a Hand Drawn Wordpress style Website Header
In this tutorial I`ll explain you the steps I took to create a hand drawn wordpress style website header in Photoshop.
I used some custom fonts,a paper pattern and a custom brush that I created exclusively for this tutorial.The steps for creating the brush are explained in the tut,so don`t worry,you don`t loose anything!Take a look!
Final Image Preview:
Take a look at the image we’ll be creating.You may click the image for a bigger preview!
Materials needed:
First step:Setting up the workspace:
First step is to set up the workspace.For this,create a new file of 1260×300px:
Step 2:Creating the brush
Now I`m gonna show you how to create a V brush to create the VVVVV effect that you may see in the final image.
Create a new document of 100×100px and add a vertical and an horizontal guide at 50px,like in the image.
Now select the Line Tool,set the weight to 10px and create a “V” symbol by adding 2 stripes,under the horizontal guide.With the Crop Tool(C), select only the “V” symbol,like in the picture:
To create a brush from this image,go do Edit->Define Brush Preset,choose a name and hit “OK”.
You should have now the brush in your Brush Preset Picker.
Step 3
Let`s add some options to the brush we`ve just created.Select brushes,choose our brush and add the next settings:
Step 4:
Now paint an horizontal line with the new brush ,but be sure that above the line you`ll have at least 200px for the header content.To make a perfect line,hold SHIFT key while you paint.
Step 5:
Fill the top area with the same color used when you painted the line.Mine was red.
Step 6:
Download the Paper pattern,install it by adding it to the Presets->Patterns folder.You may find the folder where you have Photoshop installed.
Step 7:
Double click the header layer and add the next blending options:
Ok!What we have until now:We have a piece of paper style header sitting on an apricot color background.
Step 8:
Now select the Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle with the height of 40px.The width should be the same with the width of the entire page(aprox 1300px).
Fill it with a gray to black gradient and low the opacity of the layer to 50%.
Step 9:
Now draw 2 lines at the bottom of the top shape.One gray and the other white,to create an effect of depth.
Step 10:
Add two vertical guides,one at 150px and the other at 1110px(150+960),because we want to have a content space of 960px wide.
Step 11:Creating the logo
Download the Roughage font and write some text to create a logo.I wrote “OurTuts”.Give it a linear soft gradient from black to dark gray to make it more interesting.
Download the Mia`s Scribbling font and write again some smaller text under the big text,to finish the logo!
Step 12:
Now download the two social icons packs and add the 48×48px icons to the main project.
Write some suggestive text,like “Spread the word” or “Show us your love” or do like me:write “Tell them about me!”
Step 13:
Let`s create the top header navigation!
Download the Daniel font and create some buttons above the logo.Let`s start with “Home”:
Type “Home” with white and under draw a white line.
Select the line layer and go to Filter->Liquify,select a big brush size and bend the line like in the image:
The button looks more artistic:
Step 14:
Create some more buttons using the same way.
At the middle,type “Categories:” and add a down-arrow from the custom shapes.
Final step:
The final step is to add a subscribe area in the top-right zone of the project.For this,type “Subscribe:” and add from the icons sets,the mail and the RSS icons.
The Final Image:
If you followed all the steps,the final image should looks like the next one.You may click the image for a bigger preview!
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