This tutorial introduces how to make metal gears. The difficulty in production lies in the shape and texture of the gear. When making it, the author used rectangle copying and changing angles to create a gear with square corners. Then he blurred and adjusted the color level to get a rounded rectangle. The production method is very professional and saves the time of manual cutting out. The texture part is basically done using layer styles.
final effect
1. Create a 150*150 canvas and fill it with white. Change the canvas mode to "Grayscale" (Image > Mode > Grayscale).
2. Create a new layer. Select the Rectangular Selection Tool and choose Fixed Size. Set the rectangle to be 35 px wide and 145 px high. Use the Paint Bucket Tool to fill the rectangle with light gray (#918E8E) and deselect it (Ctrl+D).
3. Duplicate the rectangle (Ctrl+J) and rotate it 90 degrees (Edit >> Transform >> 90° clockwise).
4. Duplicate the rectangle (Ctrl+J) and rotate it 45 degrees (Edit >> Transform >> Rotate).
5. Copy the rectangle (Ctrl+J) and flip it horizontally (Edit >> Transform >> Flip Horizontal).
6. Merge all rectangular layers (Ctrl+E).
7. Create a new layer and use the circular marquee tool to select a circular selection with a diameter of 120 mm on this layer.
Fill it with the same color (918E8E), deselect (Ctrl+D), merge with the rectangle layer, and the simple gear is complete.
8. Press CTRL and click on the layer where the gear is located to obtain a selection. Open the channel panel, create a new channel and name it "alpha", use the paint bucket tool to fill it with white, and deselect it (Ctrl+D).
Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur Radius 4 pixels.
9. Image>>Adjustment>>Levels enter the following values.
10. Left-click the Alpha layer in the Channel Panel, press Ctrl and click on the layer to obtain a selection. Go back to the Layers panel and create a new layer, go to Edit > Fill, and fill the selection with black.
Delete the original gray layer.
11. Layer >> Layer Style >> Drop Shadow, blending mode "Multiply".
Bevels and Reliefs, Styles >> Internal Bevel
