I just want to let you guys know that this tutorial is for more advanced users of Photoshop, so if you’re just starting out, you might not exactly get everyting, as it’s not so detailed.  We will start by creating the base of the clock with the drop shadow, so you can play with the setting of the drop shadow.  Mine was set to aproximately 50%.

Now, we will have to create the shiny look.  Please add noise both to your glare and your base, as it will look more official compared to the Dashboard Clock.

Now, we have to create the clock itself, so take out your Eliptical Tool.  Draw in a circle on top of your glare layer, and fill it in with black.  Now add the border around the black circle, with the hex indicated below.

Now we have to create the glare, so if you want to get a more detailed view, you can just follow my way.  Place the original clock design near yours, and draw a white circle inside the black circle about 1 or 2 pixels apart.  After that, grab your eraser tool and set the opacity to 75%.  Slowly brush from the top until you get something like mine.  I also added a small tiny border around the glare just to make it look a little nicer.

Now we have to add all the digits inside.  I personally liked how Arial Narrow looked on it, so I added that font, although I think that Mac’s designer used some other font that I am not familiar with or maybe just missed.

Create a white circle in the center of the digits.  Following that, draw another red circle inside the white circle’s center, so you should end up having something like this:

Now by the alignment of the arrows on the clock, use your white circle as the base and grab your pen tool to draw out one of the arrows.  Just by connecting to one side of the base of the circle and extending towards the numbered digit, and then following back to the opposite base of the circle, you can easily acheive those fancy arrows.  Repeat the steps again to create the short arrow as well.

Now place the long arrow layer underneath the white and red circle layer.  Follow by going to the Settings of the circle and adding a drop shadow of about 75% opacity, with the color filling of black. After you have done that, grab your line tool and set the weight to 2px.  Draw a line from the red circle to the selected digit on the seconds.

Now you’re basically done.  Just grab your text tool, and add the State and the AM/PM indicator on top.  If you’re curious about the colors, you can just take the hex of the original design.  Your final result should look like this:

Compared to:

Not bad right?Almost identical! Thank you for reading my tutorial guys. Hope you enjoyed it.

We will start with a simple step of creating the base for our icon.  Below, I have displayed the setting for my drop shadow and the base itself.

The next thing we do is to create the bar where we will keep our month and year.  I have used the #ff5400 hex shown below, so if you want to achieve the same results, please use that.

Create a duplicated layer, and overlay it with this hex color #ffc000.

Now using the Eraser Tool approximately the size of 65, erase the lower half of your overlaid layer.  Move down the layer two or three pixels down, and now your bar should look like this:

Create a new layer, and take your pencil.  Set its size to 1PX, and draw a line right at the top of the overlaid layer, which should look like this:

Go to your layer style, and then blending options, applying the following settings to your layer.

Grab your text tool, and pick the month and year that you want it to display.  I used Arial Narrow size 12.  Check out the results below:

Apply these layer style settings to your text.  You will need to change your blending options and the drop shadow settings.

As you can see, the area for all the dates is quite plain, so we need to create depth for it.  Create a background with the hex color of #e3e3e3.  Please see the exact results below:

Use your Eraser Tool at aproximately the size of 185, and apply it from the top.

Now you will need to start creating the boxes for the days.  It does not have to be the exact number of days, but just to make it look a little more official, get it close to that number.  We will start by creating a column with a 1px border inside our body of the calendar.  The main color for the column will be #e8e8e8, and #c0bbbb for the border.

Now we have to cut squares out of that rectangle, so grab your Rectangular Marquee Tool, and just cut the rectangle into small boxes.

Now set the background to white, and duplicate the layers four times, and in the sixth column, make the style as your original column was.

Just to make this look a little fancy, make one of the boxes shaded with orange, and outline it with a more reddish orange.  I used for the background #ffab6c, and for the border #ff6200.

You are basically done.  You can always mess around with the smaller sizes, and see how it looks.  My final result can be seen in the previous image, and right below: