Create UserBar with Photoshop

This tutorial learn you how to make photoshop UserBar. It’s very simple, step by step tutorial for beginners and intermediate PhotoShop users

1.Create NEW image with dimensions 320x17(or 350x20, whatever you prefer)


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.1.png

2. Select color you want for your userbar. I will be use black.

3. Than select your color gradient tool.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.2.png


4. Click on the middle top of your userbars and holding down your mouse making sure the black line is perfectly straight so you get this.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.3.png


5. Now select your elliptical marquee tool.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.4.png


6. Make selection like on picture.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.5.png


7. Now select your paint bucket tool



http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.6.png


Then we will create new layer. Go to LAYER, NEW LAYER.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.7.png


8. Fill selected area in white.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.8.png


9. Now go back to LAYER, LAYER STYLE, BLENDING OPITONS and set OPACITY to 50 %.


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/1.9.png


10. Your userbar should look like this


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/2.0.png


11. Now we will add some logo. I will use some piece from this picture, but you can find below some diferent logo.



http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/ace_logo.jpg


12. When you crop and add some text and picture to userbar, just make you sure that you bring front layer1 (first layer you made).


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/2.1.png


You should get something like this:


http://www.cg-files.com/cgpicture/UserBartutorials/2.2_finished.png



Eto sample ng nagawa ko with Photoshop:




http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3847/instilledbeeubargk9.gif



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nice tutorial for us beginners... :thanks: bro...

gusto ko makita mga userbar creations nyo ha? :D :approve:

thanks sa tutorial instilled bee..:thumbsup:

Here is another similar userbar tutorial I found.

USERBARS TUTORIAL

1. To create a normal userbar we first need to create the pattern, that is the stripes that you see in the background. To do that just open Photoshop (we're using Adobe Photoshop CS right now), select 'File' and then 'New..'. Create a 6x6 file with Transparent as the background color. Look at the pic:


http://www.userbars.org/1.gif

2. Now you should see that new document, something like the picture below, now Zoom it to around 1600%.

http://www.userbars.org/2.gif

3. Now with your pencil tool, not the brush one (to select pencil right click on the brush tool), with 1px diameter selected, so we can make really thin stripes, draw dots diagonally, like this:

http://www.userbars.org/3.gif

4. Now it's time to save it as a pattern, since this is not the userbar yet. To save it as a pattern go to 'Edit' and select 'Define Pattern', there you go, just name something.

http://www.userbars.org/4.gif

5. Pattern was sucessfuly saved, now it's time to build our userbar. Just create a new file again, but this time with this size: 350x20.

http://www.userbars.org/5.gif

Now select some colors to fill your background, normally we just two colors, you can choose them in those 2 squares on the left, these ones:

http://www.userbars.org/6.gif

6. With the Gradient tool selected, click on the top of your document and drag the mouse until the end of it. It will create something like this (we have chosen 2 gray colors), and the red circle you see there is the gradient tool:

http://www.userbars.org/7.gif

7. Now that we have the background color, let's fill it with the patter that we previous made. Go to Edit > Fill and the choose the pattern that you have created.

http://www.userbars.org/8.gif

8. Your image will get those diagonal lines, dont worry if you see them a little bit messed up, just zoom out to 100% and you'll see everything's fine:

http://www.userbars.org/9.gif

9. Now if you know a little bit about layers and filling you can play with them so the diagonal bars dont get too visable, you can create a new layer, and fill it with a brighter color and then change it's opacity.

10. Now we only need to add the text and a image. The image it's up to you, incorporate one as you like. The text should be written with a bitmap font, download a font called Visitor from www.dafont.com and then use it. In this example below, we've used the Visitor -BRK- font, size: 10, character space: 25, anti-aliasing: none (very important otherwise, the text will get that blurry effect). [InstilledBee: visitor_font.zip is attached at the bottom of this post]

http://www.userbars.org/10.gif

11. Optionally, you can create a new layer bellow the text one and with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, create an oval effect, from top left corner to top right corner, fill it and then change the oppacity. The final thing to do is to stroke the entire userbar with a 1px black line (inside), to do that just a create a new layer on top of all the others, it should be transparent and stroke it.

Visitor Font:

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nice thread... keep it up bro.... iipunin ko lahat ng tutorials na yan... nakauninstall kasi photoshop ko for a meantime eh.. giving way sa autocad program ko.. huhu... gagawin ko mga yan... thanks... hihihi

Here is my own version of the userbar tutorial(ung steps na ginagawa ko, di ung mga tutorials na yan)... share ko lang :clap:

1. Create a new Photoshop document with dimensions 350x20. If you make userbars often it would be best to save this as a preset, such as in the image.

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4044/psuserbar1fr6.jpg

2. Once you have a new image, select your gradient tool and place a gradient on the whole image. You can create either a (a)horizontal gradient or a (b)vertical gradient

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6792/psuserbar2aj0.jpg

-OR-

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/6678/psuserbar2bhl1.jpg

The colors you choose for the gradient, for a good effect, must match the colors of the base image you have.

3. After that, create a new layer from the background. Go to [Layer] menu, select [New] and choose [Layer from Background].

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/2002/psuserbar3qj9.jpg

You should then see "Layer 0" replace the "Background" layer.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3940/psuserbar4dh0.jpg

4. The reason we created Layer 0 is to apply Layer Effects to it. Go to [Layer] menu, select [Layer Styles] and choose [Bevel and Emboss]

Once the dialog box appears, set the depth to 75% and the size to 3.

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5295/psuserbar5lr5.jpg

Then in that same dialog box click on "Stroke" to add that style. Once the "Stroke" style settings appear, set the size to 1, the color to black(or whatever you think is fit for the userbar), and the position to Inside.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2185/psuserbar6jx3.jpg
If you've set the style settings right your userbar should now look something like this:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8950/psuserbar7ob0.jpg

5. After that you can now add your image, and text. For the text's font I recommend Visitor TTF(see previous tutorial or download from DAFont (http://www.dafont.com) and search for "Visitor"), but you can use any font you like, just keep it at a reasonable size so that it doesn't overhaul the whole userbar(a size between 8 and 14 is good).

ngayon makakapag massproduce n tyo instilledbee. thanks tol. d ku kc magets kung panu magpaliit ng font laging nasisira ung arial. hehe. thanks tol.

pano po ba mag animate nito

@kabayan same as animating a regular image din... na pwede mo rin sya i-edit sa imageready just like any other sig or avatar. it's up to you din kasi kung paano mo iaanimate ang ganitong tipo ng image (userbar). keep in mind nga lang na maliit ang canvass. :D

boss bee!!! anong cs yang second tute??? iba kulay eh!!!!!

@gsm matagal ko na yan ginawa :D yung xp theme ko lang iniba ko kaya iba windows nya :D:D:D

ginawa ko yan bago pa ako mag vista anthracite pack :whistle:

and take note, yung first two userbar tuts di ko gawa, yung pangatlo lang :D nung summer ko pa yan ginawa :D trust me :D

@ gsm blue... malaki maitutulong nyan for starters ahihihi... yan kasi ang unang tutorial na sinubok ko ahihihi :lol:

malaki ang maitutulong ng tutorial na to :thumbsup:

nice tutut sir bee..mkapagsimula na nga din..halos same lng sya sa pag gawa ng sig :rofl:

ahahaha thanks kuya bee nakagawa na po pala me ng userbar nasa thread natin sa general section hehehe

thanks po...