Smart Phone

1. Open up an image 1024X768

2. Make a linear gradient starting with #504f4f and ending with #000000. If push Ctrl while drawing the gradient you will make a straight line, which you want.

3. Create a new layer (Layer > New Layer), and call it ‘Base.’

4. Make a square selection with the dimensions of 300X450. Click on rounded corners in the toolbox and set the setting to 50.0

5. Apply another linear gradient starting with #c6c6c6 and ending with #949191.

6. Make another layer and name it ‘Base 2.’

7. Select the selection tool and make the selection that was made a little smaller than the base box. Fill this smaller selection with #fff6f6.

8. Make another layer and name it ‘Base 3.’

9. Once again we are going to make the selection smaller than the current one. Remember to select the selection tool. Now fill it with a linear gradient starting at #504f4f and ending with #000000

10. Create a new layer and name it ‘screen.’ Now create a rounded square box about a third of the way down the bases. The rounded corner radius should be 25.0 The dimensions should be 240X260 Try to make sure the square is evenly spaced between the sides of the phone. You can use a guide to help you with this.

11. Make #fff6f6 your foreground color. Right click and go to Edit > Stroke Selection And use the Stroke line set it to 2.0

12. Get a stock image and open it as a layer. File > Open as Layers

The selection should appear on top of the image. Move it to the portion of the image you want to display. (Make sure in the tool box you select ‘Move Active Layer.’) Right click on the layer (in the layer dialog) and add an alpha channel. With your stock image positioned where you want it, invert the selection. Select > Invert And click delete. You can now get rid of the selection by going to Select > None

13. Next is the slider. Make a new layer named ‘Slider.’ Take the elipse tool and create a circle. It doesn’t have to be perfect. With #fff6f6 in you paint bucket tool again stroke the selection. (Edit > Stroke Selection) But this time set the line to 1.0 Take of off the selection (Select > None) and use the Move tool to position this circle in the middle if you have to.

14. Make a new layer and name it ‘Slider Reflection.’ We are going to make small reflection by making a bigger circle that is semi-opaque. This circle needs to be wider than the one we just made and lower. (Scroll down to the next image preview to see the shape I am talking about.)

15. Lower the opacity in the paint bucket’s tool bar to 30.0 Then fill the selection with #fff6f6. Take the elipse tool again and click subtract from selection.

Now you need to draw a circle big enough to cut off the sides of the circle and leave a little of the bottom. Then invert the selection (Select > Invert) and click delete.
Depending on how you cut it, you may need to take the eraser and using a soft brush erase it. Or in my case I needed to rotate it slightly and then reposition it.

16. Next are the speakers. Make a new layer named speakers and make a rectangle near the top. The rectangle should be 120 pixels wide and 30 pixels tall with a radius of 50.0. Take the color #fff6f6 and stroke the selection. With the stroke line at 1.0

17. Now fill the selection with #000000 and now go back to the square selection tool click subtract selection like we have done before. You want to take out the bottom half of the selection so surround the bottom half with a selection.

18. Now take your bucket tool and fill whats left of the selection with #504f4f

Now is the time to fix anything you don’t like. Maybe the slider is too low or the speaker too high, so use the Move tool to re-position.

The phone really needs some dimension. We are going to create that with reflections.

19. Make a new layer called ‘Phone Reflection.’ Take the elipse tool and make a big circle. You want to be able to snag a fourth of the circle on the phone.

20. Make the foreground color #ffffff and set the bucket fill’s opacity to 30.0 Now take off the selection by going to Select > None

21. Right Click on the ‘Base’ layer and then click alpha to selection. Now invert the selection. (Select > Invert) Make sure you are still on the ‘Phone Reflection’ layer and then click delete. Go ahead and take off the selection.

22. For the last reflection we will hide the background by clicking the eye next to the layer. Now right click on a layer and click ‘Merge Visible Layers.’ Duplicate the image and then you can show the background layer again by clicking where the eye was.

23. Take the copied layer and use the the flip tool. And in the tool’s toolbox select the vertical flip. Get the move tool and move it right up under the other phone. You should get a semi-circle from the phone reflection and that will let you know if you positioned it correctly.

24. Apply a layer mask to the copied layer by going to Layer > Mask > Add Mask. Choose the White (Full Opacity) Now prepare to make a linear gradient starting at #ffffff and ending with #000000

25. The layer you moved up under the other phone should be displaying a layer boundary in the middle of the image. Start the gradient there and end some where near the edge of your screen.

And, boy! You are done!