Valentine's Day is just around the corner - why not dress your Web site up with a new header. So, let's go through how to make a pretty new Valentine's Day header.

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Let's create a stop sign in Photoshop. It's a pretty simple process and good practice. So, let's get started.

Open up a new document in Photoshop and make it a decent size - I just made mine 800px X 600px so I had plenty of room (more than enough).

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Here is a pretty quick way to make yourself some distressed (or grunge) style text in Photoshop. You see this style of text a lot around the web and on a lot of clothing like t-shirts.

You'll need a good texture to use for this. Here is the image I will be using - go ahead and save it to your computer if you want I own the image so feel free to you use it for anything you want. It's a pretty simple image. Just a picture of a wooden fence in my backyard. I find that worn wood works pretty well as a texture for creating distressed type. Anyway, grab the image or use one of your own - once we get started you'll realize what type of texture image you need to make this work well.

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New - download the Photoshop Files for this header at the bottom of the post.

The trendy/popular thing right now seems to be this 'web 2.0 style' of graphics. You'll see that a lot of the web 2.0 style images have things like highlights, gradients, reflections, shadows, and even stripes - along with just an over all clean yet almost bubbly style. So, let's see what we can come up.

Let's get started…

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