In this tutorial you will learn to create this navigation bar with subtle rollovers.
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First thing that you want to do is create a new image that is 800 x 40 with these settings.


Now, make your foreground color #005fa9 and your background color #00487f and create a gradient from the bottom to the top of the image. It should look like this.
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Now, create a new layer and name that layer "shine." Now press Ctrl + A to select the entire canvas. Switch to the rectangular marquee tool and hold Alt and click from the bottom left to the middle right. This should de-select half of the selection leaving you with only the top, like so.
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Now, press D to reset your foreground and background colors, and press X to switch to white. Now fill in this selection with white by pressing Alt+Backspace (this fills current selection with foreground color)
Set this "shine" layer's opacity to 15% and it should look like this.
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Now, create a new layer and name this border.
Press Ctrl + A again to select everything, and then go to select > modify > Contract by 2

Then press control Ctrl + Shift + I to select the inverse and press Alt + Backspace again to fill this selection with white, Set this layer's opacity to 20% and it should look like so.
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Now save this image
(don't copy and paste it) and open it up in photoshop. After you have done this, go to Edit > Define Pattern and call it "ScanLines." Now, go back to your other document, set your foreground color to #00457b and then create a new layer above the gradient layer, but below the shine and border layer. Now hit Shift and Backspace. This should open up a menu that looks like so,

Select the dropdown menu and change it from Foreground color to Pattern, and change the Custom Pattern to the new pattern we just created. Now set this layer's opacity to 50% and it should look like this.
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Now we are done with the main background of the navigation bars. All we have to do now is create the separator images, the rollovers and the text.

Ok, first, we want to make some text, so select your text tool set the Font to Tahoma and the size to 6. Now Click on the left of the image and type "Home." Now allign this to the middle and a few pixels from the left like so.
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Now we want to start creating the rollover image. Create a new layer and put it below your text layer , Set your foreground color back to white, and make a rectangular box which is inside of the 2px border and behind the home text, that extends a bit off to the right, like so.

Now, click the layer style button and add an inner glow with the following settings.
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After this, set this layers opacity to 35% and it's fill to 25%. It should look like this now.
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Now that we have the overlay, we need to create a separator for the rest of the buttons. Zoom in on your image, Hit D and then X to reset your colors and set the foreground to white. Select and hole the marquee tool to select the "Single Column Marquee Tool" now select a column to the right of the overlay and hit alt enter, now press your arrow to the right once, hit X to change the foreground color to black and hit alt enter again. This should create a white and black line next to each other like so.
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Now set this layers opacity to 15%.
After this, you can create more and more buttons until you are satisfied with them, following the same exact steps. You can move them around and eventually get an effect like this. (every other button is set to look like rollover for preview)
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You can download the PSD Here.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
(click on image to view full)


First thing that you want to do is create a new image that is 800 x 40 with these settings.


Now, make your foreground color #005fa9 and your background color #00487f and create a gradient from the bottom to the top of the image. It should look like this.
(click on image to view full)


Now, create a new layer and name that layer "shine." Now press Ctrl + A to select the entire canvas. Switch to the rectangular marquee tool and hold Alt and click from the bottom left to the middle right. This should de-select half of the selection leaving you with only the top, like so.
(click on image to view full)

Now, press D to reset your foreground and background colors, and press X to switch to white. Now fill in this selection with white by pressing Alt+Backspace (this fills current selection with foreground color)
Set this "shine" layer's opacity to 15% and it should look like this.
(click on image to view full)


Now, create a new layer and name this border.
Press Ctrl + A again to select everything, and then go to select > modify > Contract by 2

Then press control Ctrl + Shift + I to select the inverse and press Alt + Backspace again to fill this selection with white, Set this layer's opacity to 20% and it should look like so.
(click on image to view full)


Now save this image


Select the dropdown menu and change it from Foreground color to Pattern, and change the Custom Pattern to the new pattern we just created. Now set this layer's opacity to 50% and it should look like this.
(click on image to view full)

Now we are done with the main background of the navigation bars. All we have to do now is create the separator images, the rollovers and the text.

Ok, first, we want to make some text, so select your text tool set the Font to Tahoma and the size to 6. Now Click on the left of the image and type "Home." Now allign this to the middle and a few pixels from the left like so.
(click on image to view full)

Now we want to start creating the rollover image. Create a new layer and put it below your text layer , Set your foreground color back to white, and make a rectangular box which is inside of the 2px border and behind the home text, that extends a bit off to the right, like so.

Now, click the layer style button and add an inner glow with the following settings.
(click on image to view full)

After this, set this layers opacity to 35% and it's fill to 25%. It should look like this now.
(click to view full)


Now that we have the overlay, we need to create a separator for the rest of the buttons. Zoom in on your image, Hit D and then X to reset your colors and set the foreground to white. Select and hole the marquee tool to select the "Single Column Marquee Tool" now select a column to the right of the overlay and hit alt enter, now press your arrow to the right once, hit X to change the foreground color to black and hit alt enter again. This should create a white and black line next to each other like so.
(click on image to view full)

Now set this layers opacity to 15%.
After this, you can create more and more buttons until you are satisfied with them, following the same exact steps. You can move them around and eventually get an effect like this. (every other button is set to look like rollover for preview)
(click on image to view full)

You can download the PSD Here.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.