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Simple Photoshop Interface(Tribal) Tutorial
For this tutorial, you will need Adobe Photoshop 7.0. I hope to teach you the basics of interfaces, and from there allow you to branch off of my tutorial to make you're own creations. Interfaces add detail to graphics, and allow you to freehand things. Using interfaces, I have creted professional layouts, stereos, people, buttons, etc. Interfaces are very good to know how to make!
1. Start out by opening up your photoshop. Make a new image that's 400x400 pixels, and has a white background (File >> New). Now, add a new layer (Layer >> New >> Layer). Goto your Tool panel (Window >> Tools), and click the button in the top left hand corner called the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Below is what it looks like, but if you can't find it... try right clicking where it should be for more options.
2. Now, start drawing a circle, and then hold shift before you let go of your mouse. By holding shift, it makes the circle in perfect proportion. Size doesn't really matter, neither does where you position it.
3. Here comes a fun part. Using the Elliptical Marquee Tool and holding the alt button on your keyboard, draw another circle that's sort of half way over the original circle. Once you let go of your mouse, let go of alt, and you should have part of the circle selected. You want to keep trying this untill you get a half-moon type shape, like the one below;
4. Now take your bucket tool which is on the tool panel, near the middle (click to see), and fill in your circle with any color. We will change this color later on, so don't worry. Once you have that, you can use your Move Tool and reposition the moon shape. I put mine off to the side, because we'll add more later. Deselect it (CTRL and D on your keyboard).
5. Double click the layer that the image is on. You'll see a popup called "Layer Style". Click Styles which is located in the upper left corner. Go five spaces over to the right, and select the blue-ish button called "Blue Glass (button)".
6. Hit okay, and go back to your semi circle. Looks pretty nifty, doesn't it? That's pretty much all. You've successfully made an interface! You could add other details to it, like maybe a Stroke or something. You also could edit some of the effects, to change the color... etc. Below is the image I have completed. All I did, was put a rounded square under the layer with the interface on it, and positioned it. Could make a pretty cool layout, but it's overall a great effect to learn.
Hope you learned a new technique using this tutorial. This effect is used alot in layouts I make, and can add a cute touch to anything if edited correctly. This tutorial was created by Acid-Crash Designs.
This is what I made as a result of this tut ~jason(www.deepillusion.net)
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