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Creating a glossy left navigational panel |
| Start by creating a circular selection using elliptical marquee tool. |
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| Press Q to enable quick mask. From filter menu select distort>>glass. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Press Q to disable quick mask. |
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| Create a new layer and fill with a gradient. |
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| Duplicate the layer. Enable lock transparency pixels form the layer palette. Fill it with black color. Press Ctrl+T and scale down. |
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| Reduce the opacity to 20%. |
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| Ctrl+Click the original layer thumbnail to get the selection. From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 3 pixels. Create a new layer and apply a black to white gradient in linear mode. |
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| Change the layer mode to screen. |
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| Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+I to invert the colors. Change the layer mode to overlay. Reduce the opacity to 50%. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. |
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| Change the layer mode to overlay. |
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| Repeat the above steps to create a shiny button. Move the layer a few pixels upwards. |
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| Create an elliptical selection using elliptical marquee tool. Press delete. |
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| Select and merge all the layers and scale down. |
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| Duplicate the layer several times and place as shown. |
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| Create a small ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Duplicate the layer several times and place below each other. |
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| Similarly create more joints connecting each button. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. |
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| Select the top layer in layer palette. From layer menu select new adjustment layers>>hue/saturation. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Select and merge all the layers. Apply some drop shadow to the layer. |
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| Type link names over the buttons. Change layer mode of text layer to overlay. |
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