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Home Photoshop Tutorials How to create a content box in Photoshop | Photoshop Tutorial

October 5, 2015 By castle Leave a Comment

How to create a content box in Photoshop | Photoshop Tutorial

Content Box

How to create a content box in Photoshop

Step 1:
Let’s start out by creating a new file. I used a 400×200 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a white color. Now create a new layer set and give it a name.

Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and above your screen under the options palette choose Fill Pixels, set the radius to 14 px and check anti-aliased. Create a new layer and draw a rounded rectangle with 260×181 px dimensions and #7093A4 color shade.

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Step 2:
Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Shadow and Stroke blending options to your blue rounded rectangle layer.

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Step 3:
Now draw a rounded rectangle with 260×26 px dimensions and #7093A4 color shade.

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Step 4:
Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option to your smaller rounded rectangle layer.

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Step 5:
Now choose the Horizontal Type Tool and set the font family to Arial, bold, 14 pt, none and #AEE5FF color shade. In a new text layer type the title text of of your box.

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Step 6:
Add your content using font Arial, regular, 12 pt and white for color. This is just one of a number of ways of creating boxes in Photoshop.

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Bleeds explained

Basically, a bleed is artwork that goes over the edge of the printed sheet.

If your design needs to have a bleed then it’s important to allow 3mm overlap (see image A below). As the letterhead will be printed on oversize material (SRA4), this gives the guillotine operator a chance to cut into the artwork and produce a good finished letterhead. (see image B below).

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Why do we need a bleed?

If the artwork ended at the edge of the sheet and the guillotine cut was only 0.5mm out, then we could end up with an unsightly thin white strip down one edge of the sheet, which is not ideal.

Also, if there is a large stack of paper on the press, with the best will in the world there will be the odd sheet that doesn’t get fed through the press 100% accurately so if a bleed hasn’t been put in place this could cause issues.

Extending the artwork over the edge of the sheet allows for a little leeway when it comes to the time for trimming.

If you’ve set your workspace for A4 and intend to use bleeds then, depending on what software package you are using you may need to set the workspace to oversize A4 (SRA4), which measures 225mm x 320mm.

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