Screw

A longer and better way of making a screw than other sites - final result is bigger, and higher quality :)

1. Start off with a new image, 125px x 125px and a transparent background

2. Create a new layer, and name it Screw

3. Grab the circular marquee tool, and make big circle, just big enough so it almost touches the outside of the canvas

 

4. Fill this with #141414 but dont deselect!

5. create a new layer, and name it highlight

6. Grab the airbrush, and use the following properties...

7. with white as your foreground colour, make firstly a curved image going round the left, then a smaller one on the right

 

8. click Filter > Blue > Gaussian blur - with a radius of 6 - hit OK

9. hold CTRL and press F to repeat this another 3 times

10. Hold CTRL and press D to select

11. Make a new layer called Bar

12. Grab the marquee tool, and put a vertical bar going down the middle of the screw, then fill this with #343434

13. Hold CTRL and press D to deselect

14. CTRL click the thumbnail layer Screw on the layer palate- hold CTRL + Shift and press I - the hit delete - then deselect

15. Duplicate the layer, Highlight- and Drag it above the layer BAR on the layers palate

16. CTRL click the thumbnail layer Bar - hold CTRL + SHIFT and press I - then hit delete

17. hold CTRL + SHIFT and press I again, and click on the layer highlight on the layers palate - then hit delete

18. go back to your "highlight copy" layer, and hold CTRL and click the thumbnail layer of BAR

19. grab the marquee tool, and hit RIGHT on your keyboard twice and down twice

20. click Select > Feather - with a setting of 3

21. Hold CTRL + SHIFT and press I - then hit delete 4 times

22. Hold CTRL and press D to deselect

23. click Layer > Merge visible

Of course this screw is probabally too big to put on an image, i just like to make things bigger to make them easier to work with!

Download the version i made to see if yours looked the same - right click and click save target as...