: Creating popular mobile app menu/action bar effect in photoshop I see this line effect in a lot of mobile apps. It looks pretty nice. How can I recreate this effect in Photoshop?

@Ogunnowo857

I would do it like this:


Make a new layer.
Make a Black line with Line Tool in that layer. Put Fill Pixels setting on
so you can deselect anti-aliasing.
Go to that layers Blending Options.


Add Drop Shadow Blend Mode:
Overlay.
Color: White.
Angle: 180 or 0.
Distance: 1px.
Spread: 0%. Size: 0px.
Noise: 0px.
Make sure that "Layer knocks out drop shadow" is selected.
You might
want to set opacity down a bit as well.

From above Drop Shadow in the "Bleding options: Default" Set Blend
Mode: Overlay. Set fill to match the white drop shadow. Then adjust
the Opacity above to give both of the lines a general opacity. ( And when I say match, I mean so that it looks good.. )
For the "fade to transparent" look, I would use Eraser tool with
Soft Round Brush that of course has hardness 0 if that isn't clear
enough. ( Or Layer mask and do same thing with Brush Tool and Black
color. )

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@LarsenBagley460

Create a green background
Draw the 2 lines with line tool
Double-click on the line layer
Apply bevel emboss > pillow emboss (select from dropdown)
Rasterize both line layers
Select marquee tool > fade from top > and then delete the bottom part of the line layer, apply this on both layers


You can follow these screenshots, I tried to explain this as easy/best as I can.








My output : I reduced its opacity to 55% you can use 100% or anything to make it look more appealing ....



Hope this will help

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