How to Make a Nice Looking Web 2.0 Seal for Websites

 

Hi you all! How's your weekend? I hope you had a fun weekend! Anyways, let's get on today's lesson!
What we have here is another seal. This time, a more wonderful looking seal compared to last week's tutorial. As usual, you can still apply this seal on websites typically for discount tags, or to presentations when you want to emphasize something, you put it on a seal.

But before we start, let's enumerate the things we want to achieve to get the seal that we want:

1) Polygonal circle
2) Gradient Inner color
3) Glossy Cover
4) Outline
5) Shadow
6) Good color combination and contrast

So open up your Photoshop or any other graphics editor you are comfortable with.

     Now, conjure your 'Polygon Tool' as shown above.

     Then set your 'Polygon Tool' option as 'Star' with Indent sides at 20%, and with 20 sides as shown above. That way, we should have a nice looking polygonal circle.

     Start drawing your Polygon Circle on the canvas. And right click on it to turn it into 'New Selection'.

     Now get the 'Gradient Tool' and choose some nice dark color. In this tutorial, I used violet.

     Set your gradient option as shown above. Color to White, or in this case, Violet to white gradient to achieve a nice falloff effect on the Seal. Apply the gradient on your selection from bottom to top.

     You should have now something like this. A polygonal circle with violet to white gradient.

     Without losing your current selection, get the Ellipse Tool.

     As shown above, get your 'Ellipse Tool' which shares the same sub menu as the 'Polygon Tool'.

     As demonstrated, drag the ellipse just above the seal slightly to the left as shown above. Remember never to lose your previous selection while making the ellipse shape because we would want to intersect both selections.

     After making the ellipse shape, right click on the ellipse shape and choose 'Make Selection' to get the dialog shown above. Since we would want to intersect the two selections to get the upper left region of the seal, choose 'Intersect with Selection' and hit OK.

     We now have this new selection. Guess what we will be doing next! Apply the gloss effect! 

     Get the 'Gradient Tool' once again and this time, choose the Gradient Option of Color to Transparent so it is essential that you choose the color White from the color palette.

     Apply the White to Transparent Gradient Tool to the intersected selection of the seal. Do it from top left to bottom right depending on the effect that you want to achieve. You should have something like the one shown above now. We're almost done making our website seal!

     Right click on the layer where your website seal is situated. Choose 'Blending Options' and check the checkbox for 'Stroke' and set the settings as shown above. Since the base color of the website seal is violet, then we want a lighter version of that color to be its outer rim stroke so in this case, we chose Pink. 

     Also, add some 'Drop Shadow' by checking its checkbox.

     And finally, just add some text. Make sure that your text color is light, in this case, it is white because we want to achieve a proper contrast that's nice to look at. 

     Now, we have the beautiful website seal!

     Just a Note: It's always better to keep the number of characters you enter in the seal to a minimum. Just like the example, it's only 3 letters which is obviously an abbreviation of someone popular ^^. Anyway, your interface should be clean, that's the point.

     I hope you learned much from this tutorial! Have a good day!

How to Make a Seal for Websites 1

     What we are going to do in today's Photoshop tutorial on web elements is about how to make a seal such as the one shown above, which can also be applied to discount seals or tags when you are trying to sell something on your site.

     Now open up your Photoshop or any related graphics editing software!

     Make a new document or canvas with dimensions of around 4 x 4 inches.

     Make a new layer for the outer rim of the seal.

     Click and hold to the 'Round Tool' as shown above to show its sub-tools inside.

     To make the jagged edges of the seal, what we need to use is the 'Polygon Tool' as shown above.

     Now to achieve the star-like effect of the seal, we need to increase the sides of the Polygon by setting the option as shown above. Set the sides to '20', check the Checkbox labelled 'Star' and indent sides by '20%'. You can actually play with the settings and see what's best for your creation.

     Now, click and drag the tool across your canvass to achieve the desired shape. Play with its Blending Options a bit such as its bevel, pattern, gradient, etc. Now to further enhance your Web Element Seal, get a new circle selection and make an inner selection on the inside of the newly created polygon. Make sure it is on a new layer or else you'll mess up your shape.

     Fill your selection with a dark color and after that, make a further inner selection and this time, fill it with a contrasting color with the one on its outer rim. In this case, the inner selection was filled with color white.

     Now, next step would be to get the 'Circle Tool' again to make a rounded selection as shown above. We will use this path as a placeholder for the text of your Web Element Seal. After getting the shape right, get the 'Text Tool' and position the cursor over the shape so that Photoshop will know that we want to write on that path. Click the path and begin typing. Set the fonts and colors and you'll have something like the one shown below.

     Add some more text and your seal is done! There are many different kinds of seals and this is just one of them. Watch out for more kinds of seals only at Html Css Photoshop Tutorials.