Photoshop Tutorial : How to Design an Ipad from scratch

Design an Ipad from scratch :

I showed in my previous Tutorial How to design Phones like Samsung and Nokia and I showed that designing a nokia is harder but if you did ! you would be able to design anything related to technology .

So : here are the two tutorials that I heavly recommend to check it first 

              - Photoshop Tutorial : How To Make Your own Phone Nokia Xpress .

              - Photoshop Tutorial : How To Make your own Samsung Phone .

At first here is the final result for Designing the IPad .

Here are The Steps Headlines :

 Step 1 : Creating the IPad Body .

 Step 2 : Adding Buttons and Screen .

 Step 3 : Creating the IPad Dock and Texts .

 Step 4 : Adding the IPad Icons .

 Step 5 : Creating a 3D Reflection for the IPad .

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Step 1 :   Creating the IPad Body . 

Create a new Image and choose light gray color then you can choose either rectangular selection or rectangular shape tool but I will go with the rectangular shape tool ...

        -  first choose the rectangular shape tool and adjust its options to : Radius  15 px , Fixed              Size : 9 cm width - 11.5 cm height .

        -  draw the rectangular we created with the given color, you may increase its size keeping 

           the fixed ratio as it is ,for me I made it to about 400 cm in width to make it very clear to 

           work with .  

        -  select the shape after rasterizing it and from Edit >> Modify >> Contract >> 15 Px to 

           create the outer thickness by reducing the selection size .

        -  fill the new selection layer with black and apply outer glow for the black layer and                inner glow for the gray layer

Inner Glow   : size 16 - color dark gray 

Outer Glow  : size 14 - color less dark gray .

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Step 2 :   Adding Buttons and Screen .

Now add rectangles with gray colors .

          -  first create a wide small rectangle on top of the IPad then apply a Gradient overlay  

             from blending Options with dark gray to gray colors .Angle : 0 .

          -  create a rectangle but this time vertical one and add the same gradient overlay with 

             angle : 90 .

          -  add a very wide vertical rectangle under the previous one with multiple gray values                  like below and Angle : 90

          -  from ellipse marquee tool create a small wide selection over that rectangle and   

             delete inside it as below .

          -  CTRL+R and add vertical and horizontal guides to Define the borders for the 

             screen ,say like 100 px as margins

          -  Pick the background photo you like and add it to the border area like below .

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 Step 3 : Creating the IPad Dock and Texts .

For the main Ipad Button just do as below :

           -  create a small circle shape with light gray and add  a gradient overlay with dark gray 

              color with -90 as Angle .

           -  then create a small rectangle with white color inside the circle then duplicate it      

              and reduce its size , select it and delete over the bigger rectangle to create a   

              thickness .

           -  Now for the upper rectangle representing the hour and battery charge ,create a wide 

              rectangle as below with gray color then drop its opacity to 50 % .

           -  Then add the texts shown and you can create the battery with shapes .

           -  for the dock create a rectangle with dark gray and CTRL+T , right click and choose 

              prespective and transform it as below .

           -  then add the below gradients with dark gray to light gray .

           -  create a new layer and with pen tool add a selection like below to make a wavy

              line ,then fill it with white and drop its opacity to 50 % . 

As below :

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Step 4 : Adding the IPad Icons .

  First you can download the Icons from Here

Adding it is very easy and doesnt require any skill .

          -  first create vertical and horizontal guides to represent the positions of the 

             Icons . # like below.

          -  add four Icons on the dock and duplicate them then place them under the 4 icons  

             and drop the opacity to 20 % to create their reflection , then add drop shadow like 

             below .

          -  again on the screen add 8 Icons in their positions then add a drop shadow as below .

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 Step 5 : Creating a 3D Reflection for the IPad .

Now to add an advanced reflection for the Ipad ....that will make your design fascinating .

              -  group the whole layers except the background then duplicate that group , then 

                 right click on it and choose merge group .

              -  CTRL+T , right click and choose Flip vertical then place the layer underneath the 

                 original IPad .

      Now if you remember How to Apply a 3D Effect  do the following :

              -  for the reflection layer : create new action then duplicate the layer and place it 

                 under the reflection layer .

              -  CTRL+T and zoom to the photo and move the layer 1 px to the top and shrink the 

                 width 1 px to from the right and 1 px from the left ,then press enter .

              -  Stop recording the action and press play several times , you will notice a 3D 

                 thickness being created as long as you keep pressing play .

              -  merge all the 3D layers and erase over the reflected layer as below .

As below :

And here is the IPad you just created ..

I hope you like it .

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