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Step One Open Photoshop and create a new image with the following dimensions:
Step Two Photoshop automatically sizes the graphic to 33% so you can see the whole graphic on the screen. You want to view the graphic at actual pixels, so select the actual pixels from the the view menu. Make sure that the horizontal scroll bar is to the far left side. Step Three Create a new layer using the button on the layers box that looks like a page turned up, or use the layers menu and new and new layers options.
Step Four To create the side bar, use the square marquee tool to create a a rectangle at the far left hand corner of the graphic.
Step Five The next step is to fill the selection with the color you would like to make the bar. First, select the color in the foreground color box by selecting a color on the swatches palate.
Next, use the paint bucket tool to fill the selection with the color in the foreground color box.
Step Six Create a new layer. Then fill the new layer with black. This will temporarily hide your color layer created in step five. Deselect the new layer using the select menu and the deselect option. Step Seven Use the filters menu and the blur and gaussian blur options. In the gaussian blur dialogue box, select a radius of 5.0 pixels.
Step Eight Switch the order of the layers by clicking on layer one and dragging it above layer two.
Step Nine Flatten the layers by using the layer menu and flatten layers option. Save the image as a JPEG image using a small file size option.
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