Step One
Create a new canvas, with width 200px and height 300px, and click OK, then turn on the rulers (ctrl+r)
Step Two
Next, create a new layer, and drag out some rulers, to the horizontal centre, and just above the vertical centre. Now, drag out a circular selection from where the lines intersect, whilst holding shift+alt so that the circle is approximately 25 px high and wide. Then, select the gradient tool, and fill the selection with a linear gradient, going from #5B6660 to BCCCCC from bottom to top. The image to the left shows what you should have so far.
Step Three
Now, we’re going to style that circle, first with an inner shadow with these settings: Blending: Overlay Color: White Opacity: 75% Angle: 90 Distance: 6 Choke: 0 Size: 9 Noise: 0
Step Four
Next an outer glow with these settings: Blending: Normal Opacity: 60% Noise: 0 Color: Black (solid) Technique: Softer Spread: 0 Size: 5 Range: 50 Jitter: 0
Step Five
Finally, an inner glow… Blending: Normal Opacity: 31 Noise: 0 Technique Softer Source: edge Choke: 0 Jitter: 0 Range: 50
Step Six
Now, create a new layer, and place it under the previous layer (so it is just above the background layer) and drag another circular selection, say 60px height and width, and fill with a linear gradient, A2ABAA –> 5D6663, bottom–>top. Now, apply an inner shadow to the layer using layer styles with these settings: Blending: Lighten Color: White Opacity: 35% Angle: -90 Distance: 2 Choke: 0 Size: 1 Noise: 0
Step Seven
The image to the left shows what we have so far (hopefully!)
Step Eight
Next, create another new layer, and again, place it under all the previous ones, and again, drag a circular selection, this one about 85px tall and wide, and fill it with #414B4A Now, onto the obligatory layer styles… Inner Shadow Blending: normal Color: White Opacity: 23% Angle: 90 Distance: 5 Size: 5 Noise: 0
Step Nine
Next, a Gradient Overlay Blending: Normal Opacity: 29% Style: Radial Align with layer: checked Angle: 90 Scale: 100 Gradient - see image below
Step Ten
Now, apply a Stroke Size: 2 Position: Outside Blend: Normal Opacity: 100% Color: #343F41
Step Eleven
Now, can you guess? we’re going to create a new layer, place it under the previous ones, and shift+alt drag a circular selection from the center, this one about 112px high and wide. Now, gradient fill the selection with a linear gradient, #898989 to #ECF0EF from top to bottom. Now, do a gaussian blur of 0.5% (filter–blur–gaussian blur) and our speaker is finished! It will now look like the image to the left.
Step Twelve
You should now put something behind it, so I would drag another circle and fill it with a gray color like #B0B0B0, as I have done in the image to the left.
Conclusion
Now… EXPERIMENT! try and introduce this to another interface, here is an example of this:
Here is one example of a variation on this tutorial, by www.spyderbyte.ca
