Screws

Copyright© 1997-1999 Mark Monciardini

 
1.) Make a new document (100 x 100 ). Make a new layer, Draw a circle with the Elliptical Marquee tool , save your selection , Fill with medium gray. Feather by 4 pixels, Invert selection and press the "M" key. Now move the selection 2 pixels to the right and 2 pixels down,  with the arrow keys on the keyboard. Now go to Edit = Fill =100% White, click OK.





2.) Move selection up 4 pixels and to the left 4 pixels, Fill with
black, Load Alpha channel 1, Inverse selection and press delete.





3.) Make a Vertical rectangular selection from the top of the circle to the bottom like shown. Fill with 60% Black (Edit = Fill = 60% Black), Move the selection 2 pixels to the right, Fill with 100% white.  Move it back 2 pixels and fill with 60% Black and deselect.


4.) Ok lets sharpen it up a little bit, Go to Image = Adjust = Brightness, I entered for Bright +23 and Contrast +12, 
Click OK.


5.) Last rotate,  Edit = Transform = Rotate, Hold down shift and rotate it 40 degrees.

Hay its a screw!

 

 

With a little filter tweaking and design, You can make some
pretty cool stuff with these screws.

Here's a little steel panel I made for this tutorial just to give
you a example.
 

 



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