In this tutorial you will learn how to create a website header based on the NFL team, the San Diego Chargers. Below you can see a preview:

Start off by creating a new Photoshop document (File > New) and make it size 800 x 200. Fill it with a nice Charger blue (#002C74). You should have this so far:

Now I went on Google and found a picture of Qualcomm Stadium which is the stadium that the Chargers play on, to use it as a faded background. THIS is the picture. Download it, and paste it into the picture. Set its Opacity to somewhere around 40-50%. You should now have something similar to this:

Now let’s go on to add the first football player. I went on Google again and looked for a picture of Ladainian Tomlinson, and found THIS. Again copy and paste it into the document, but this time you have to resize, and cut out to make it fit in nicely. This is what you should have:

Now duplicate the player’s layer, and set its Opacity to about 25%. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to about 3. Move the duplicated layer behind the original layer, and move it to the left a bit, to make it look like so:

Now do the same steps you did with LaDainian Tomlinson with THIS image of Shawne Merriman. You should end up with this:

and then this…

I then went on and added some nice text, I used the font “4990810” which can be downloaded HERE. I used a yellow color (#F1CA2D) for the text, and added the following effects:

Stroke:

Gradient Overlay:

Your final result should look like this: