Page 3 - Navigation Bar

6. Smarten up the navigation - The best way of making a good looking navigation bar is with gradients. A good gradient will bring the bar to life and make it look a lot more interesting. Open up your Blending options, on your Navigation bar layer, you do this by Right clicking on the name of the layer in your layer window, and then going to blending options. Then go to Gradient, and apply similar settings to these.



Now that you have your gradient set up nicely you can save the Style of the gradient so that we can use it again if we need to, simply click on the "Styles" tab within the Blending Options window, and go to Create New, this will bring up a box for you to name the settings you just applied to the navigation bar, this will prove handy later.



Your navigation bar should now look something a little like this:


Now to make the navigation look a little more special we can add an extra gradient to it, for this you need to draw a box over the top of the navigation bar, which is the same width but only 12px high, about 1/3rd the size of the bar itself. To do this you need to get the Rectangular Marquee tool, which can be found on your toolbar.



You need to draw it from the middle, downwards about 12 pixels.



Then you need to go to Layer >> New Fill Layer >>> Gradient. Give it any name.



Then make sure that your angle is on "-90"

Now we need to edit the