How to create an elegant business psd template in Photoshop

Dec 27th, 2010View Comments

Hello and welcome to another tutorial here on trendyTUTS.com. For today I will show you how to create a nice elegant and colorful business website layout in Photoshop.

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Here is my final result:

elegant business template

Let’s start the tutorial! Open Photoshop and create a new document 1020 by 1550px

Step 1

I will select Rectangle Tool and I will create this 2 Rectangles. For the first one I have used this color: #867158 and for the second one, this color: #bd822a

Step 2

With Ellipse Tool I will create this 2 white shapes:

For each of them I will apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) of about 70px
My result:

Step 3

I will select Type Tool and I will create the logo. I will write: “Business Template” and as a tagline I will add: “a design by trendyTUTS”.

Step 4

On the right side with Rounded Rectangle Tool I will create this white shape:

And with Rectangle Tool I will create an orange shape. I have applied this layer styles:


My result:

Step 5

On this step I will create the navigation. First I will select Rounded Rectangle Tool with a radius of 10px I will create a shape and I will apply this layer styles:





My result:

Step 6

Having Rounded Rectangle Tool still selected I will create another shape (wich will be used as a rollover for our navigation). For this shape I have applied this layer styles:



My result:

Step 7

With Type Tool I will create the links for navigation.
Here is my result:

Step 8

With Pen Tool I will create this 2 shapes. For each of this shape I will apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) of about 10-12px. Here is my result:

Step 9

Above the shape created on step 8 I will create a large rectangle. With Rounded Rectangle Tool (with a radius of 10px) I will create this shape and I will apply this layer styles:




My result:

Step 10

On the top of the shape created on step 9, I will create another shape, using again Rounded Rectangle Tool with 10px radius. For this shape I have used this color: #06595a
My result:

Step 11

With Ellipse Tool I will create this circles.

For the first one I will apply this layer styles:



The for the rest of them, this layer styles:


My result:

Step 12

With Type Tool I will add some text

Step 13

From our Business Vector Icons, available to our Premium Members I will use an icon showing a chart and I will place it on my document.

Step 14

Using Rounded Rectangle Tool I will create 2 “Call to action” buttons.

For the first button I have applied this layer styles




My result:

For the second button I will apply this layer styles:





My result:

Step 15

With Type Tool and using some images and some vector icons from our Premium Files, available to our Premium Members I will create the content area.

Step 16

On this step we will create the footer. Here I would like to create a contact form (I have created it using Rectangle Tool) and some more paragraphs with text. Here is my result:

Here is my final result:

elegant business template

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    Nice :)

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