How would I go about making this?

I'm trying to make an image black and filled.. something like this..



the reeds in that layout.. how would I go about making a new image like that?

Thanks

[Gjbphp]

Hi iwavethegrain, for me your image isn't coming up.

Edit:
Ok now I can see the image. From my limited knowledge of photoshop, I would say that they have made use of several layers here. One for the reeds, one for the stripey background and one for the sun. These obviously all overlay each other, with the stripey background as the bottom layer and the sun as the middle layer, with the reeds as the top layer. Not sure if this helps much as it doesn't tell you how to actually make the reeds and things, but I guess some brushes and shapes would help there

[unleash]

I think they have at least 3 layers in use here,

the first one is for the sun and the blue sky thingy(this could be more layers then just one, but I do think it is on a different layer than the rest) this is in my idea the lowest layer(like the most to the background sent layer)..

the second one is for the reed, which I believe is a brush combined with a square....that should do the trick about the black part. I can't tell you which brush it is exactly but this one is similar.

And on the third layer is the content of the site, with the buttons, which is I think regulated with javascript or so.

Hope this helps out a bit....

[turvas]

Gjbphp is right. You should to use separate layers (you dont have to, but it's just easier for you). But i'm sure you already knew that. Unless you're pretty new to photoshop. As for the reeds: They are most likely custom made (as it should be) and you can't find brushes(/shapes) to fit those exact ones. But speaking in general you can sure find some reed/plant shapes. But i think the best way to go would be to make your own. And I hope that that was the original question of yours (hope i understood you correctly, fingers crossed). And now that I have wasted plenty of your time explaining the obvious:

How to make some reeds:

They are most likely just some stroked paths combined (quite clever, yet simple, just as i like it). I hate using brushes/shapes someone else made.

This is a demo of how to create reed quickly (took me 7 mins, i was in a hurry so please don't judge the quality of my work by it). It consists of 7 steps.



Step 1: Create a nice blue gradient background.

Step 2: Create the ground, for the start a black square will do.

Step 3: Create a bunch of random smaller reed/weed and stuff. For this scrib around with brush tool (i used size 4 for the normal round brush) and erase away randomly. Continiue, when satisified.

Step 4: Start to create some larger stuff. For this i used once again size 4 brush. I created a path with "Paths" not "Shape Layers" options selected and stroked it. Then deleted the path.

Step 5: Continiue larger stuff. Same storke thing as before, but now with a size 9 brush.

Step 6 and 7: Just add some more details.

Final outcome


Hope this helps, if not don't be afraid to ask

[Man1c M0g]

Nice little tutorial turvas! Any chance of popping it in the user-submitted-tutorials section of the wiki?

[turvas]

Haha! You and your wiki. But why not? I need to work on it some more before i do though, because this is something i literally smashed together in a hurry. Will have a go tomorrow.

Thanks guys for the help. Here is the outcome of what I was working on.

[turvas]

Nice. You're getting there. Are you going to only make the header or a whole page?

the whole page, a header would be nice but it's for my layout on my website.. so I guess I need more hah.

[turvas]

No you don't need more. If you know how to make the browser go into window mode and resize when it opens the page... Ask in the html(/php) section on how to do that. So it's pretty much up to you to decide which way to go.