-by Almondj-
Learn to create a bar that can act as a banner
placer or news box in Photoshop.

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Open ImageReady and create a new document 800 x 200. Select your
"Rounded Marquee" tool and draw a box that looks similar to this and
center it.

Add a bevel, gradient, and stroke

Note the gradient is reversed!

Grab your rounded marquee tool once again and cut a chunk out of the
center.Using your polygonal lasso tool, draw a shape similar to below
and place it at the top of your box.

You should have something along the
lines of this:

Beautiful I'd say.

2. Time to give it more of a PHP Nuke style. Time to grab your polygonal
lasso and draw a shape that resembles the following:

Place it along the left edge.

Duplicate the layer, go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. Place that
on the right edge. Here's what the results so far should be:

3. Creating the orange lines on the
side. (If you know how to or already have this pattern, please skip
ahead.) Create a new document 3 x 3, take your pencil tool (1 pixel) and
make 3 diagonal dots. It should look like this:

Go to Edit > Define Pattern > and
name it as "Scanlines" Return to the document and select the layer we
created in the last step (the side ways trapezoids.) Create a new layer.
Select the outlines of the trapezoid layer (CTRL click the layer from the
layer pallet.) You should now have an outline of that layer, go to Select
> Modify > Contract, set it to "1". Your selection should now have shrunk
a bit. Select the layer you just created. Go to Edit > Fill, select the
pattern "Scanlines" and hit OK. You probably will see no change, but go to
the layer settings and add the gradient overlay of this:

Duplicate this layer and flip it
horizontal, drag it to the other side, flip it vertical, make sure you
reverse the gradient!
You should now have something like this:

New layer. Add a line below the top
bar.

Draw another trapezoid at the
bottom in a new layer. Create a new layer add the scan lines like we did
above and you should come out along the lines of this (remember to alter
your gradient settings.):

Create a
new layer below them all, that is smaller than layer 1 (the whole border
thing). Fill it with a color fill of: 292828. Duplicate that layer and
fill it with that orange color (752603). Grab your rectangular marquee
tool. Set your feather to 20 pixels and delete a chunk out of it.
Animation:

Create a new layer and
use colons (black) and type them at the top.
Here's my finished version: