Digital media player design

May 7, 2008 | 0 comments

This tutorial walks you through the steps of creating a really cool looking video player using Adobe Photoshop CS3. It is illustrated along the way for clarity.

Start working by creating a new file (File>New) with 478×600 px and 72 dpi.

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Using the Rectangle Tool (U), it’s possible to represent the background of the picture to be.

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Set the next parameters on the made layer by clicking on this layer on the layers’ palette.
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Next we must download out of Internet a kind of picture, like the one from below:

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Insert the picture on the made background by a new layer:

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Select the next shown parameters for the picture’s layer: Fill 55%
Blending mode-Soft Light

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Now we shall create the primary layer of the media player’s screen, choosing for this operation the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) with a radius of 5 px.

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

The layer’s parameters: Fill 0%
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Digital media player design in Photoshop CS3

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