Creative menu for your website

In this easy, step-by-step tutorial I’m going to show you how to design creative menu for your website.

Start by creating a new document to make your button menu in. I created a small document sized 500×500 px with white background.

Select Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 10 px) to make the shape as on picture below:

Then we can add one anchor points in the middle of every side of the shape using Pen Tool to make our shape more rounded. Then select Direct Selection Tool and correct these points similar to these:

Apply Outer Glow, Inner Glow and Gradient Overlay layer styles:

Now we have something like this:

Pres Ctrl+J to duplicate layer, then clear layer style for the copied layer and press Ctrl+D to miniaturize shape 94% horizontal and vertical.

Then apply Gradient Overlay and Stroke layer styles:

Press Ctrl+J again to duplicate layer and clear layer style. Press Ctrl+D to miniaturize shape 93% horizontal and vertical, after that select Direct Selection Tool to correct anchor points to get the shape as below:

Use Layer > Rasterize > Shape and change the color to white for this shape.

Make selection with Polygonal Lasso Tool (Feather: 17 px) and press Del to clear selection inside.

Press Ctrl+D to remove the selection. Now you’ll want to add the icon to the button. Get out the Custom Shape Tool and select Thumb Tack Shape (this is standard shape).

Use the white color to get the picture as below:

OK, we’re done for that part, but we want to add line where we can put some text in menu. Go to the background layer and make a new one shape using Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 7 px). All layers of the button must be above this shape.

Now it’s time for some more layer styles, like Outer Glow , Inner Glow, Gradient Overlay and Stroke:

Ok, to finish out the menu line let’s add some text. Get out the horizontal Gorizontal Type Tool (just the regular one) and write out your text. The font I’ve used above is called Ottawa. For the bottom line of text I used: Bold, 18 pt, Crisp, black color.

I finished off by adding Drop Shadow, Color Overlay and Gradient Overlay to the text layer.

I would like to add one more text line using color of ##1d70e1.

Then apply Drop Shadow layer style for the text:

Final example. We can make more buttons to get something as below:

Good luck!

Label: Photoshop Tutorial