How to Make User Ranks/Badges

[FullMetalBabe]

How to make a User Rank/Badges

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In this tutorial I will show you how to make your own rank on Photoshop. It’s VERY simple.(I am using Photoshop CS4)

Tools to be used:
·Rectangle Tool[Vector]
·Text Tool
·Gradient Tool
Step 1:
Make a document of any size, I personally for this tutorial I made it 159 x 31.

Step 2:
Select the rectangle vector tool and drag the tool diagonally as seen below.





Step 3:
Double click on the shape layer and a window like this will come up:


We want to make a clean looking image, no? Let’s make an admin rank, for this one I will use red, but you can use any color you like.
I used a gradient overlay from #b00000 to #d70202, blend mode normal, opacity 100%, linear, 90 degrees angle and a scale of 100%. Refer to screenshot.


I also added a stroke #820000, size 1, position inside, blend mode normal, opacity at 87%, fill type solid. Refer to screenshot.


This is what we have till now:


Step 4:
We want to add shiny, no? For those who don’t want to, you can skip this step.
Anyways, for PC user Ctrl+Click on the layer, for Mac Command+click on the layer. Refer to screenshot below.


What it will do is select the shape.


Step 5:
Create a new layer then select the gradient tool. Make sure you have white as a foreground color.

Set it from foreground to transparent.


Using the angle tool [as seen below] mode normal, opacity 100%, and maintain checked dither and transparency, with that create a straight line across the image.





You can unselect the marquee around the image now and reduce the opacity of the white layer gradient to 12%.
This is how it should look like:

Step 6:
To add the text! You can use any text you want, there are so many variations! But I used the font face Eurostile, bold, size 14, sharp and added the text “Administrator”.


To add more effects to the text, I decided to add a drop down shadow at multiply, opacity 27%, angle 120, distance 1px, spread 0% and size 0px. Refer to screenshot below.


This is how it will look.


To end, if you guys want to leave it like that, you can, personally I will add an image [famfam icons you can download at famfamfam.com: Silk Icons] And this is the final result:

To save as a GIF delete the background layer for transparency then go to File>Save for website & devices.




Then click save.

If you want to save as a PNG just delete the Background layer then go to File>Save As> and from the drop-down menu choose .PNG

You can try with many colors and text

By: FullMetalBabe- Setsou Design Graphic designer. Do not rip! If you wish to use[repost] please give credit to the author!

Setsou Design© 2009

[Savage X]

Congratulations, FMB.

It does stretch the page out a bit though.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Savage X

Congratulations, FMB.

It does stretch the page out a bit though.

I'm still working on resizing the images as we speak.

[Chris]

A well-deserved spot on the blog. As I said earlier, superb work.

[TomZilla]

Great tutorial for those who are interested in making there own rank images without outsourcing.

[FullMetalBabe]

Thank you, I hope you guys enjoy it! And that some of you may even try it! xD My first tutorial, not my last.

[TomZilla]

I hope we have some testers out there!

I'd love to see their final work.

[Havok]

Very Nice work. I may try this out soon.