Friday, 18 October 2013

How to create a wordpress theme in Photoshop

Here is my final result:

To create this template I have used:
Let’s start the tutorial. Open Photoshop, set the background color to: #dcdcdc and create a new document 1100 by 1570px.

Than using Rectangle Tool, create this shapes. For each of them I have added dimensions and colors. Please see the image bellow

Step1 – Creating the top part ~ logo and navigation

With Type Tool (T) I will write “WordPress Theme” and tagline: “design by trendyTUTS”.
For WordPress text, apply this layer styles




And for Theme, apply this layer styles:


Having Type Tool selected, add the links on the right side:
To see my result and what kind of fonts I have used, please see the screenshot bellow

Step2- Creating Featured Area

This one is really easy to create. On the right side I will add an image with some of my layouts and on the left side with Type Tool I will add some text. Please see the screenshot bellow to see what fonts I have used and to see my result for this area

Step 3 – Creating the content area

To create the content area, I will select first Rectangle Tool and I will make this shape:

With Rectangle Tool I will create another shape. This one it will be used to create a shadow on the top of the shape created in previous step.

Then, make sure that you have this shape selected, and add a layer mask (please see the screenshot)

Next, select Gradient Tool, make sure that you have the default palette selected (black & white), than drag a similar line

You should have something like this now:

Do you see what a smooth shadow we have? In the same way I will proceed for the bottom of this shape.
Next, I would like to create another cool shadow, but this time I will create it for the left corner of the shape.
First I will select Pen Tool and I will create a triangle

Then I will go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and I will apply a gaussian blur of 3.5px
I will proceed in the same way for the rest of the corners
Here is my result:

Next I will add the content. With Rectangle Tool I will create a shape. Dimensions: 291×285 and I will apply this layer styles:



Than with Type Tool I will add some text, and using some images I will place them on my document:

Next I will select Rounded Rectangle Tool with a radius of 5px I will a button and I will apply this layer styles:





I will repeat this steps and I will create 5 more blocks of content

On the right side I will create the sidebar. I will create them in the same manner that I have created the blocks with content

At the bottom I will create the pagination

Step4 – Creating the footer

Well the footer is already created. With type tool I will add the text for footer.
Here is my result:

Here is my result for the entire layout

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