Fort Knox Safe

June 18th, 2007 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Drawing Techniques

We have got such a circle:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Now we’ll represent a new layer and mark it out both with this circle. Press after that on CTRL+E for the layers to merge down.
Enter Filter>Distort>Glass and set the next parameters:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

This is what we have got:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Apply on this layer the Blending Options – Inner Glow:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Choose again the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent one more circle:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Apply Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Editor

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

We’ll get the next result:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Continue by drawing the door’s roundness. In this case we’ll need the Custom Shape Tool (U) – Circle Frame

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Place the shape the same way it is shown below:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3 Blending Options>Outer Glow:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss>Contour

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss>Texture – Color Paper>Gold Parchment

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Editor

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Finally we must get such a metallic circle, like that one demonstrated on the picture:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Make a copy of this circle, but the copy should be smaller and it is possible to do that with Free Transform option.

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3 The parameters of the copied circle are the same, but we need to hide the Drop Shadow and change the parameters of the Outer Glow.

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Outer Glow

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

On the central part we’ll place a metallic star:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Select Custom Shape Tool (U) – 5 Point Star.

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Outer Glow

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Inner Glow

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss>Texture
The texture’s name is Color Paper>Blue Vellum

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3 Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Editor

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Stroke

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

This is what we should get when finishing setting and applying the parameters:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

We have to draw the last element. It’s the orifices on the door, represented on all around the door.

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3

It’s necessary to take the Ellipse tool (U) and draw a small circle, colored with #669999 and then select the Blending Options>Inner Shadow for setting the parameters from below:

Create Fort Knox Safe in Photoshop CS3