In this tutorial, I will try to deliver a technique that will help you to create bullet using a very simple and scalable method. Though I am using Photoshop CS3, any version will work. Here you will learn how to create bullet using the layer styles or blending options. I hope you will like this tutorial. Feel free and share your comments with us.
Creating a Bullet in Photoshop - Final Preview
Creating a Bullet in Photoshop
Tool and Resources
Let's start to create our create a bullet tutorial,
Step 1
Open Adobe Photoshop, and create a new Photoshop document. I am going to create a new document of 500 x 500 px with White #ffffff color.
Create a Bullet
Step 2
Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool set the Radius to 5px. Draw a rectangular with #956302 color as like in preview.
Draw a Rectangular
Step 3
Create two more shape with help of the Rounded Rectangle Tool like me see in the next 2 images.
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Step 4
After that add the following layer styels or blending options on all shapes.
Inner Glow
Inner Glow
Color Overlay
Color Overlay
Gradient Overlay
Gradient Overlay
After applying these blending options or layer style we have get a cool effect as like in preview.
Applying Blending Options
Step 5
Take the Ellipse Tool create a shape like this.
Ellipse Tool
Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool, draw a rectangle as like me.
Draw a Rectangle
Press the delete button from your keyboard and delete the selected area like this.
Delete Selected Area
Step 6
In this final step we will applying the layer styles on the head of the bullet. Follow these following options.
Inner Glow
Inner Glow
Color Overlay
Color Overlay
Gradient Overlay
Gradient Overlay
After applying blending options we have get an awesome Bullet as shown in final preview below.
Final Preview
