How to make a Userbar

In this leson i will show you how to make your own Userbar
First you have to find a suitable picture.For example lets make a bar for Counter Strike.
I used this picture:

Cut this part witch you think is suitable.
After that open Adobe Photoshop and make a new file 350x19:

1.Make a new layer that you are going to work with.
2.Pick a suitable gradi and place it:

3.Make a new file again 6x6,but this time it has to be Transperant:

4.Pick up the pencil tool and draw a diagonal line from the left to the right corner:
Before that u can enlarge the picture because it will be easier.

5.From the Menu go to Edit->Define Pattern..., where you type a name for this pattern and press OK.

6.Go back to the first document and go to Layer->Layer Style->Blendig Options...:

After you make this settings,the document must look like this:

7.Put the cutted icon in left(right).To copy(cut)it from the one document and to put it in the other
is nessecery to select it by Marquee tool and to press Ctrl+C, after that u put it in the other document by pressing Ctrl+V:

8.Transorm the copied document (Ctrl+T)untill you have the wanted size:

9.It is time for the text. The text should be something like "cs playe","cs fun", "counter strike player","counter strike fun"....

After you type the text,when you want you can leave it like this,and when you don't you can make the following settings in Blending Option for the layer of the text:

After that your Userbar should look something like this:

10.Go in Blending Option again and put this settings for the main layer:

Now you have a stroke witch is 1pixel.
11.Make a new layer and pick up the Elliptical Marquee Tool,make a huge elips similar to this one:

12.Fill it wit white color and lower down the Opacity to 40% and you must have this: