Realistic Microphone in Photoshop
Photoshop Tutorial

• Patterns
• Spherize Filter
• Custom Gradients
• Layer Styles
• Difficulty 7/10
• Part 1 | 2

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1

Create a new Document 600 x600 -rgb, transparent bg

Make a circle with the marquee tool

 

2

Fill with a grid pattern. How to make Grids

 

3

We want to make our grid nice and spherical

Filter>Distort>spherize

Use 100% and run the filter 2X

Don't deselect

 

4

Create a new layer and move it beneath the mesh layer and name it "head"

 

5

Create a light to dark gray gradient

Use the circular settings and fill the sphere so it looks like the image shown

Deselect

 

6

Choose the Mesh Layer again

Add a bevel and emboss layer style as shown here

Set the gloss contour for double ring

Choose color overlay and make it a light gray color

 

7

You should have a sphere like the one on the left now, this is our mesh

 

8

Create a new gradient like the one here

 

9

Make a new layer

Draw a rectangle

Fill it with the new gradient, linear top to bottom

10

We want to add a bit of depth, so duplicate the rectangle 2X, move both copies beneath the gradient layer

Fill one copy with white and one copy with black

11

Nudge the black rectangle to the right by 1 pixel

Nudge the white rectangle to the left by 1 pixel

12

Repeat the steps 9-11 except make the rectangle narrower as shown in the illustration here

Link all the layer and choose create new set from linked
Name it head. We now have the mic head completed.

Lets continue to the body in Part 2

 

 

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