Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop (Wordware Applications Library)
Right-click on the path with one of the Pen tools or Path Selection tools. A submenu displays. Select Make Selection from this menu. You’ll notice the path now displays the marching ants effect (or a moving dotted line).
Filling a Selection with Color
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In the toolbox, double-click the Foreground Color option. The Color Picker dialog box displays. Enter the following in the RGB text fields and then press the OK button:
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R: 13
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G: 31
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B: 124
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Now select the Paint Bucket tool and click within your selection. The selection fills with your blue color, as shown in Figure 6-14.
Figure 6-14: Filling your web header path with color
Adding Patterns to Your Selection
Recall that when you created the logo in Chapter 3 you used Photoshop’s blending options to add a more graphical look and feel to your image. Let’s do the same with our selection. Perform the following:
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Right-click on the web header layer and select Blending Options in the submenu that appears.
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Check the Drop Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, and Pattern Overlay check boxes.
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Left-click once on the Pattern Overlay check box. The right side of the Layer Style dialog box displays Pattern Overlay settings.
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Click the right-facing arrow next to the Pattern drop-down field. A submenu displays, filled with thumbnails of preset layer patterns.
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Select the right-facing arrow in this submenu. Another submenu displays to the right, which contains more preset patterns.
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Select the Rock Patterns preset pattern from the submenu.
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A message box displays, asking if you wish to replace the current patterns. Press OK.
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Select the Light Marble pattern from the thumbnail submenu. (Hover your mouse over the thumbnail image to view the names of the patterns.)
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Press OK in the Layer Style dialog box.
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Press Ctrl+D to deselect your selection. Your web header should look like Figure 6-15.
Figure 6-15: Spicing up the Jonathan Bing web header -
Save this file as Bing_webheader.psd.
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