Recent Additions:

Creating a Simple Web Advertisement

Toon Site Navigation Header

Creating Cool Celebrity Wallpapers

Shopping Site Animated Banner

Designing a Cake Shop Logo

Creating a Girlie Smiley

Drawing a Cartoon Horse

Colorful Beads Text Effect

XP Style Wind Mill Icon

Water Ripples Navigation Header

Shopping Mall Logo

Creating a Lovefool Smiley

Animated No Smoking Sign

Creating and Animating Incense Sticks

Creating a Futuristic Logo

3D Leather Text Effect

Changing Calendar Dates

Logo with Iconic Headphones

Animating a Dolphin Diving Into the Water

Creating Diamond Earrings

Animated Night to Day Effect With Rising Sun

 

Metallic Navigation Bar
Step One
Start out with any sized document that you want, I used 400px by 40px. Take the rectangular Marquee tool and make a selection in the center of it then fill it with black.
Step Two
Now go to Layers - Layer Styles - Gradient Overlay. Now double click the gradient and use the setting below to come up with a custom gradient that I am using.
Step Three
Then click the tab on the side that says Stroke. Make the color black, size 1, position outside. Now click the tab that says Bevel and Emboss. Use the below settings.
Step Four
Now you should have something like below. Hope you enjoyed.
If you want, you can add some text like I did. I used the font hooge 05_53. You can download it from here. I used 8pt font. I made the color of the font black, and then in the layers menu, I changed the text layers opacity 45. My layers are found below along with a final out come.