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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.

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Some of the things that you will need before we get started:

- Spray paint brush set

- Kanye West On Stage

- Jay-z Grammys

Just download all of those, save the images to a folder that you are making the tutorial in, and upload the brush set to the brushes.  Now let’s begin with the basics of actually making our base of the ticket.  You may use mine if you do not want to create your own.

Using your newly-added brushes and a color of #ff4a03, create a little bit of spray dust/paint in the middle.  It would be best if you follow my example:

Repeat the same steps to create a little variety, and sort of a mixture of paint.  It would be best if you use separate layers.  That way, you can touch up or go back without touching the old paint.  Here is the combination of colors that I used:  dd26ce(purple), 0997f9(blue), and ff9d03(orange).  In the end, your results should look somewhere along the lines of this:

Yeah, it looks a little messy, but don’t worry.  We will fix that up in upcoming steps.  Grab your Elliptical Marquee tool and create a variation of small/large circles all around.  It would be a good idea to match them with the colors of the paint/dust.  That way, you get a nice retro feel for it.

Looking a little better, so lets get onto the branding.  Select your Rectangular Marquee Tool and create a white rectangle.  After that, go to Edit – Free Transform and pull it a little down from the left corner or the right.

Now using any font that you would like, create some kind of an announcement or a slogan to tell what the poster respresents.  If you are interested in the font i used, it can be found here

Let’s lighten up our text now a little bit by applying a gradient overlay with the following setting (Note: I used the colors listed above as a mixture):

Results

Go to your custom shapes and select the shape listed below.  This will help us create the ridges.  Once you have that, span it down from the right side of the black area.

Results

Let’s go back to our resources and open up the Kanye West picture, which we will edit right now.  Once you have opened it, go to Edit – Image Adjustments – Desaturate and following, go again to Edit – Image Adjustments – Threshold and make the level 50.  Transfer it over to your document, and put it underneath the white rectangle layer.

And let’s apply this gradient overlay on the Kanye West layer:

Results

Now take out the Jay-Z Grammy picture, and apply the same threshold effect on it.  After that, duplicate and span it across the black column.  Drop the opacity to 50% and add some text along the side.

There you have it!  Once again, I truly apologize for long weeks of without update.  All the errors are now fixed and we are back on track.