How to Create a Hard Drive: Photoshop Tutorial

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive or HDD, is a fundamental part of modern computers. The hard drive is where all of your programs and files are stored. So today we are going to create a hard drive in Photoshop CS5. You can learn many new techniques and enhance your Photoshop skills with this tutorial. Never forget to share your suggestions with us.

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Tutorial Details:

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Difficulty: Intermediate
Estimated Completion Time: 50 Mins

Download source file:

Download Free Hard Drive PSD File

Create a Hard Drive in Photoshop – Final Preview

Tools and Resources

Photoshop Tools

Rectangle Tool
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Ellipse Tool
Pen Tool
Polygonal Lasso Tool
Gradient Tool
Text Tool

Lets start to create a hard drive icon in Photoshop.

Step 1

Create new document (Ctrl+N) 600×500 of size.

Step 2

Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle with black color #000000 set radius 30% named it layer Background.

Go to Edit > Transform > Perspective and minimize the size upper side of the background layer.

After transform on the background layer we get a new shape.

Now applying some Blending Options on this rectangle background layer.

Inner Shadow

Gradient Overlay

After applying blending options we get nice result.

Step 3

Duplicate the background layer clear all effects set lower side of background layer with this color #393939.

Step 4

Now select the background rectangle layer press Alt key and press the down arrow key 42 time, then select all the duplicate layers clear the effects on all layers and merge them (Ctrl+E).