The ipod tutorial

Just to clear a few things up first, when I say something about layer styles, I mean to select the layer and press this button at the bottom (highlighted red)

Ok first things first create a new document mine is 600*840 and make a nice gradient background, set you foreground colour to white make a new layer above the background (Ctrl+shift+N) and using the rounded rectangle tool (U) with these settings:

make a box the size you want the ipod to be.

Now apply these settings to that layer:

Make a new layer and using the elipse selection tool (M) and holding shift to make a perfect circle drag out the shape you want for the larger navigation wheel and fill it with white using the paint bucket tool (G).

Now apply these styles to that layer:

Now we need to make a smaller circle in the centre of this one, the same way as before, fill it with white and use these settings:

You should now have this

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For the smaller buttons we do nearly the same as we have just done, create a small circle, fill with white and use these settings

duplicate this layer 3 times (ctrl+J) and place where they should be.

For the screen use the rounded rectangle shape tool (U) and fill it with this colour #B5B2A3, or something similiar.

Use these layer settings:

You should now have something like this

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For the text on the buttons I used the font ms sans serif at 16 pt, and the colour as black with these layer settings:

Now to add the other buttons, use the custom shape tool (U) for the arrows and apply the same layer settings as the text we just did and bring the opacity down to about 80%.

For the line screen use the pencil tool (B) at about 2 pixels and colour #7f7f7f to create a line across the screen.

In the same font as before and colour #7f7f7f make it say iPod across at the top and in the centre,

for the battery indicator make a new layer, select a rectangle with the marquee select tool (M) and go to edit>stroke and give it a 2 pixel stroke with the same colour #7f7f7f.

Now with it still selected go to select>modify>contract and contract it by about 3 pixels, fill this with the same colour

It should now look like this:

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for the rest of the text same font and with a size of 24 pt and the same colour #7f7f7f just write it where it should be.

For the arrows use the right custom shape (U) under arrows

on one line you will need to use the opposite colours and draw a dark bar across the screen with light colour text.

And that concludes this tutorial hereis the finished image