
Alright, if you got it properly, it should now look similar to the screen below. To make sure you understand what a Clipping Mask (Ctrl+Alt+G) is, pay attention to the red circle in layers palette below.

Step 22
Go to the Layers Palette, Ctrl+rightclick on the “button center” layer’s thumbnail to call it’s selection. Then rightclick and select Stroke.

Then go to Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All.

Reveal the mask by paitning on it with soft white brush. Paint where red arrows indicate to give some nice edge light.

Step 23
Now type “Music chart” (color doesn’t matter) in the center of the button . Next, go to Layers Palette, rightlclick on the text layer and select Blending Options. Set everything exactly as shown in the images below.

Step 24
OK, as for final step, just go to Layers Palette, find the gloss layer from steps 17 and 18 and simply duplicate it using Ctrl+J). Drag that layer to our button group (on the very top), resize it down a bit (so it fits the button), position it properly in the central part and hit Ctrl+Alt+G for clipping mask.

Make sure every layer in that group is on clipping masks so they don’t come out of the central shape.

Step 25
To to give a touch of class to the button edge, you can refer to steps 9, 10, 11 (creating edge highlights) and using the same technique add a bit of light to the bottom left part.
Keep in mind that now you can duplicate the whole group of layers (Ctrl+J) and place it elsewhere to make more buttons. The only thing you need to do is just to change the type.

Step 26
Open image of speaker, extract it using Magic Wand Tool (W) and drag it somewhere in our illustration.

Next hit Ctrl+U (Hue/Saturation) and set proper values to Reds, Yellows, Cyans and Blues.

Step 27
Now grab Elliptical Marquee Tool (M), hold Shift and draw a nice circle around the membrane.

Then hold Alt and draw another circle to exclude the center of the speaker. We only want to have the membrane selected.
Hint: To move the selection while drawing it, use Space bar on keyboard.
Example: if you want to exclude the central part from the current selection, hit Alt (exclude) draw a selection circle, now if you want to move it – still hold Alt but aslo hit and hold Space bar on keyboard – now you’re able to move/reposition the selection, until you drop the Space bar.
15 responses to “How to Create a Beautiful Audio App User Interface”
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Thank you
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The instructional exercise was extremely useful… Here I figured out how to make a UI of an applications. I’m extremely grateful to you.
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Sensacional
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Great
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This tutorial was really helpful… Here I learned how to make an user interface of an apps. I’m really thankful to you.
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Helo Wojciech,
Great. Only with elements of Photoshop this strong statement. And–an insane fleiss work.
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alexisonfire YEAH!
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Nice technique. Really useful…thanks for the post…
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Great job! Interesting process, love to make it.!
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