Step 20

Use your cloud brushes to paint a few small clouds on layer “clouds2″ to cover up the buildings’ base.

Step 21

Let’s add our multimedia props: Classical camera, Director’s chair, TV camera, Laptop, Microphone, Hotair baloon 1, Hotair baloon 2, Small Tree. For each of these objects extract their background by using the Magic Wand Tool (W) and then click on the button Refine Edge to adjust the edges. To remove any remaining rough edges, use the Eraser Tool (E) with a small round brush.

Step 22

Resize and then apply Filter > Smart Sharpen (Cmd+F) to each object. Position them as below.

Step 23

Add shadows to the chair, TV camera, laptop, microphone, camera and car by following the same techniques used for the letter “M”. For the tree, use natural brushes and adjust the shapes using the Smudge Tool.

Step 24

Spring cleaning time! Link up each object layer with its respective shadow layer so that it will be easy to turn each object on and off as needed. To do this, Press Shift + click on both layers. Right click and select Link Layers. Then place all the props layers in a new folder “Props”.

Step 25

When designing a homepage, the interactive elements play a major role in determining the website’s success. Therefore we should make our main buttons enticing and prominent for users to want to click them. We’ll create 3D boxes that are connected with the cityscape through colorful wires. They will represent our different page sections. Here’s a preview of what you’ll be designing.

Step 26

Go back to Illustrator to draw the 3D boxes and colorful wires. Use the Rectangle Tool (M) to draw 6 white boxes of different width depending on the length of the text the box will contain. Example “Web” will have a smaller box and “Contact” will have a wider box.

Step 27

Apply Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel for each box. See image for each box’s effect settings, from left to right.

Step 28

Copy over the artwork you created in Photoshop so far and paste it in a “background” layer as a guide. Draw a few lines with either the Pen Tool (P) or the Pencil Tool (T), whichever is easier for you.

Step 29

We’ll now make some rainbow brushes. Use the Rectangle Tool (M) to draw a rectangle. Then copy and paste four to five rectangles one beside each other vertically. Change their colors. Select all the rectangle and use Align Left to align them.