Design and Texture a Steel Door in Photoshop

Added on November 02, 2007 inside Drawings category | View Comments or add a response!

Step one:

Start with a large black canvas, in your layers window make a new layer set. Name it Steel Door.

Choose your rounded rectangle tool and set the radius setting to 10px and check anti-aliased. In a new layer draw a 121 x 119 pixels, #202020 rounded rectangle. Use the fixed size setting under rounded rectangle options to make the exact size.

Step two:

Cut out the shape you seen on the picture shown below.
Add the following layer styles:

Step three:

Now uplicate the shape layer from step two. Instead of re-creating the entire effect, just make a new layer, leave this empty. Merge your empty layer with the duplicate.
Flip the new shape layer horizontal and position away from the original.

Step four:

Now choose your roundeded rectangle tool and set the radius setting to 40 pixels and check anti-aliased. In a new layer draw a 112 x 52 pixels, white rounded rectangle.
Set the layers blending mode to Darken and add the following layer styles:

Step five:

Again choose your rounded rectangle tool and set the radius setting to 8 pixels with anti-aliased checked. In a new layer draw a 119 x 78 pixels, #202020 rounded rectangle.
Cut the bottom where the curves meet and add the following layer styles:

Step six:

Duplicate your rounded rectangle structure layer from step four. Cut half of the shape.
Set your layers blending mode to Darken and add the following layer style:

Step seven:

Now in your layers window select/highlight your Steel Door layer set. Then above your screen select Layer then Merge Layer set. You should end up with your steel door in one layer.