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Our third video tutorial! I am on a roll with these things! Anyway, in the tutorial above you will learn how to create a cool looking interface for a website or skin. The technique is quick, and easy to learn and utilize on an everyday basis. Click play, and enjoy the show!
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Our second video tutorial, this time on how to create advanced shading and reflections. Keep in mind, you need to know some key things to follow this tutorial, one is how to select elements using the layer palet, and also how to use layer styles and filters. Pretty easy things to do though 
This is a fairly complex project for the newer users of Photoshop. We will go through the process of making a hypothetical skin for a hypothetical audio program. So let’s take it slow, one layer at a time. First off, create a new layer (name it “base”) and then make your way over to the tool pallet and select the “Elliptical Marquee” tool. Create a selection that is similar to the one below: (Note: you can add and subtract from your selection by holding down the “Shift” and “Alt” keys).
Start off by creating a 400X300 image and making a new layer. In the center of the
image make an approximate 50X50 selection using the “Rectangular Marquee tool.” Now
fill this selection in with this color, #A02424. This is going to be our shiny part of
the button. Now make you way over to the “dodge tool”, and set the brush size to 110,
and the “Range” to “Highlights.” Start to highlight the edges and the top of the image.
(Make it look as much as the image below as possible).
Create a new Photoshop Document, I made the background white and I made it 200X350 Px. Make your way over to the “Rectangular Marquee” tool and make a Selection like the one below. Then fill it in; with the fill tool of course, with white.
Create a new image, I used a black background and an size of 200X350. First off create a selection with the elliptical marquee tool in a similar shape shown in the picture below. Fill it in with a darker Grey, and then use the burn and dodge tools to give it some depth and contrast. (see my Burn and Dodge tutorial if you need more help.)
Open a new image, I used 350X550, and create a new layer. Again I used black as my background. Make your way over to the Polygonal lasso tool and make a shape just like the one shown in the picture below. Because you are on the polygonal tool, go, select / modify / smooth and set it to around five or ten. Now fill that selection in with whatever color you want, I used an orange. Cool, now we have the shape and color, so lets start detailing the organ thingy. Change to the Dodge tool, Brush = 10, and Range to highlights. begin lighting tille balls all the way down your organ, try and experiment, you can make this thing look many different ways depending on how you shade it. I showed you how the transformation is in the screenshot below.
I find these tools very useful in alot of ways. Here is just one way you can use these to to add some detail into a design. I started off with a simple orb, not really that shaded or anything.
First of all create a new image and then right away create a new layer. Also set the background color as black, (the image size I used here is 350X500). Now make a selection one pixel wide and make it cover the whole length. Fill this selection in with white.
Step one, open a new image, it doesn’t really matter what size but be sure to set your background color to black. (This effect generally looks its best on a black background.) Make a new layer and select the “Polygonal lasso tool” and create an abstract shape that looks similar to the example below. (It doesn’t really matter what colour you use here either, but just don’t make it too dark, and feel free to experiment).
