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Create a navigation bar with a unique Vista Style

1. Start by opening a new file: 500px * 50px
2. Make a 480px * 30px selection

3. Go to Select -> Modify -> Smooth and apply a 2px radio

4. Create a new layer(Shift+Ctrl+N or Layer -> New -> Layer) and fill the selection with any color
5.Now apply this layer styles:
- Gradient: #313332 to #46474a

- Stroke: #676767

6. Select the top middle part of your nav bar

7. Create a new layer and make a White to Transparent gradient from top to bottom

8. Set layer’s blend mode to Linear Dodge and opacity to 35%

9. Your nav bar should look like this

10. Create a new layer and create a selection one px under the top border of the nav bar using the Single Row Marquee Tool

11. Fill the selection with White

12. Now, Ctrl+Click over the first layer thumb to select it

13. Go to Select -> Inverse and press Del while having the 1px white line layer selected

14. Change this layer’s blend mode to Soft Light and opacity to 60%

15. Now lets make the rollover effect, create a new 130px * 24px selection, go to Select -> Modify -> Smooth and apply a 2px radio

16. Create a new layer and fill your selection with any color
17. Now apply this layer styles:
- Gradient: #000000 to #2f3233

- Stroke: #0f1011 to #575858

18. Create a new layer and Ctrl+click over the layer thumb to select it. Go to Edit -> Stroke and add a 1px White border

19. Change the layer’s opacity to 15%

20. Select the top middle part of the rollover and, in a new layer, apply a White to Transparent gradient from top to bottom

21. Change layer’s opacity to 80%

22. Now let’s add some text. Using Verdana 11pt and White color

23. We need to add some separators between links. Create a new layer, make a selection with the Single Column Marquee Tool and fill it with #1a1b1c
24. Move the selection 1px to the right and fill it again with #5d5f60
25. Move the selection by 1px to the right again, and fill it with #232526

26. Erease the top and bottom parts using a 20px Soft Brush and change this layer’s opacity to 50%

27. Duplicate this layer and move it between the other 2 links

28. Your Vista Style Nav Bar is now finished!

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We love to release freebies. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place, which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.

Today we are happy to release Cheers: a free set of 12 "social" glasses, designed by Helen Gkizi from Webtoolkit4me, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

We love to release freebies. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place, which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.

Today we are happy to release Cheers: a free set of 12 “social” glasses, designed by Helen Gkizi from Webtoolkit4me, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download the Set for Free!

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell them. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

• Download the set (.zip, 0.6 Mb)

Motivation Behind the Design

As usual, here are some insights from the designer herself:

“It’s really funny if you think about it as the motivation behind it was a simple and basic question. Helen is a graphic designer specializing in invitation and brochure design. The question was “Can you design icons” and she said “Sure why not, what kind of icons?”

Gerasimos browsed through a few sets and that was it. She had her first one ready in about 30 minutes. We just said “glasses”. Icon in a glass. Gerasimos and Helen run a small design agency in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a web designer she’s in the print business. But now he thinks they need to expose this talent somehow and here it is. Their “web 2.0 in a glass”. Cheers!”

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