How to Create a Bullet in Photoshop CS3

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.

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Tutorial Details:

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Difficulty: Beginner
Estimated Completion Time: 20 Mins

Creating a Bullet in Photoshop – Final Preview

Tool and Resources

Tools

Following photoshop tool are used in this tutorial.

Rectangular Marquee Tool
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Gradient Tool
Ellipse Tool

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.

Step 2

Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool set the Radius to 5px. Draw a rectangular with #956302 color as like in preview.

Step 3

Create two more shape with help of the Rounded Rectangle Tool like me see in the next 2 images.

Step 4

After that add the following layer styels or blending options on all shapes.

Inner Glow

Color Overlay

Gradient Overlay

After applying these blending options or layer style we have get a cool effect as like in preview.

Step 5

Take the Ellipse Tool create a shape like this.

Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool, draw a rectangle as like me.

Press the delete button from your keyboard and delete the selected area like this.

Step 6

In this final step we will applying the layer styles on the head of the bullet. Follow these following options.