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So let’s start with creating our document, I have prepped a background for you guys already, if you wish to use it.

Now by grabbing your Rectangular Marquee tool, create a new layer and an outline for the frame of the interface.

Using the preferences below, apply a stroke to the outline:

Great, now we have the border for our interface.  So let’s start adding the detail touches so that we can make it look more metal-like.  Using our Dodge Tool with a diameter set to 45px, start stroking the left edge of the frame as shown below.  Apply the following effect over and over with different sizes along the other edges.

Eventually, your results should come out to be looking along the lines of this:

Now that we have the feel of the metallic frame, let’s work on our Gun Metal background.  Simply begin by taking out the Rectangular Marquee tool and creating another rectangle inside the current frame, approximately 2px-3px apart.

Follow that up with adding some noise:

Good.  Let’s move on to our shadows.  Go to your Layer – Layer Style – Inner Shadow and apply the following preferences:

For the final touch, let’s add a little bit of bevel.  Look below:

Okay, now to fix a little bit of the lighting, we are going to duplicate the layer and clear it off all styles.  (Clear Layer Styles.)  Following that, grab your Dodge Tool, and set the diameter to approximately 125px and stroke in the direction shown below, gradually decreasing.

After that, set the Blending options in Layer – Layer Style to Overlay, and drop the opacity to 25%.  You should be looking at aproximately the same results on your screen:

You can really do a lot with this tutorial using different shapes and methods.  This is just the basic introduction, the same way that you start to learn animation with the beginner’s step of adapting the color to change under a sequence of frames.