How to design a health/nutrition or a fitness website in Photoshop
Hello and welcome to another tutorial, here on trendyTUTS.com. As you are probably used, on trendyTUTS we are publishing often website layout tutorials. For today I have prepared a website layout for a health/nutrition niche, but in the same time this website template can be used as well for a fitness website.
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Here is my final result:
Let’s start the tutorial.
Open Photoshop and create a new document 1020 by 1550px
Step1
Select Paint Bucket Tool, set the foreground color to #76b8b9 and click one time on your document.
Step 2
Select Ellipse Tool, make sure that the foreground color is set to white and create this white shapes:
For each of this shape I will apply a Gaussian Blur of about 50 – 60px. To apply a Gaussian Blur go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur.
You may lower the opacity if it’s needed.
Here is my result (a nice fading light):
Step 3
Now I will select Line Tool and I will create those 2 lines. Please see the screenshot. For the first line I have used this color: #669495 and for the second one, this color: #9cd8d9
Step 4
I will select Type Tool and I will add my logo. I will write: “healthy tips”.
For healthy I will apply this layer styles:

Step 5
Having Type Tool selected I will add the links for navigation. I have use the same layer styles and the same font used for the word “healthy” from the logo.
Step 6
I will select Rectangle Tool and I will create this shape. Color used: #edec62
Step 7
I will select Direct Selection Tool, and I will drag a little bit from the bottom – right corner of the shape
Step 8
With Type Tool I will add some text over this shape. I have applied the following layer styles:
Step 9
With Type Tool I will continue to add some more text
Step 10
I will create a button, using again Rectangle Tool and Direct Selection Tool. For the text over the button I have applied the layer styles from step 8. My result
Step 11
On this step I will use some icons from Premium Files section. I will go to Health/Fitness Vector Icons, I will download them and I will choose an icons showing an apple and I will place it on my document. I will play a little bit with Free Transform Tool (Ctrl +T) till I have something that I like. Here is my result:
Step 12
Here I will repeat Step 6, 7 and 8 and I will create this shapes.
Step 13
With Type Tool I will add the text over them
For “Looking for more healthy tips? Subscribe now!” I have used “Adventure” font with the following layer styles:


For “Latest Articles” I have applied this layer styles:
Step 14
With Rectangle Tool I will create this white shape
Step 15
With Pen Tool I will create this 2 black triangles and I will apply a Gaussian Blur of about 14px. Here’s my result
Step 16
Next using some images I will create another 5 thumbnails
Step 17
I will repeat again the steps 6, 7, 8 and I will create this shape:
Step 18
With Type Tool I will add some dummy text
Step 19
From our Premium Files – Food Vector Icons and Health/Fitness Vector Icons I will add some vector icons
Here is my result for the entire layout
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