Design a Rocky and Rusty style laptop in Photoshop

November 15th, 2008 | Filed under Abstracts, Photo Effect | 8,024 views

In this tutorial, we explore different layer style options, selection and extraction tools and brush tool in Photoshop and create a rocky and rusty, yet colourful laptop in Photoshop.

I was experimenting different layer blending effects and testing a few filters and thought I could share some of my findings in this tutorial.

Step 1

Click on the following images and download a copy of them respectively. We will use them later in this tutorial.

The laptop:  Link

The Rock Image: Link

The smoke/inky image: Link

Step 2

Open “the laptop” image, use pen tool to outline the laptop, then load this path as a selection. Create a new document (size doesn’t really matter, I chose 800×600px) and save it as “laptop”. Use The move tool to drag the selected laptop to the new document, this will create a new layer. Name it “laptop”. You may have to resize the laptop to fix the new document.

Step 3

Open the rock image, select any portion of the image you want, and copy it onto the newly created document, above the “laptop layer”. Name the layer “Rock” and set the the layer blending option to overlay.

Step 4

Use image >> adjustments >> curve to adjust the rock layer. See images below for details settings.

At this stage, the image should look like the following, you can try out different setting for different outcomes.

Step 5

We can now add some lighting effect onto it. Open the smoke image you downloaded, crtl+a to select the whole image, drag it to the laptop document and resize it the roughly the same width of the laptop. Position the smoke image above the laptop.

5. Use the motion blur filter to create some light beams and use the black and white adjustment tool to change the lighting density a bit. Change this smoke layer blending option to “screen”.

Detailed settings see below:

Step 6

We can futher add some more textures onto it. Create a new layer and call it “cloud”. Fill it with white and set the layer blending option to color dodge. Use lasso tool with 20px feather to create a selection and render some cloud inside it.

Step 7

Ok, we now completed the majority of the work. The rest is just playing with different brush tools and colour balances. There are plenty of free brush download site on the web, just google “photoshop brush download”!

Here I made a few different versions:

That’s it for this tutorial. I hope you enjoy it and found it useful. If you would like a copy of the PSD file, just drop me a comment below I will send it to your email address.

Thanks for viewing and have a nice day!

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18 Responses to “Design a Rocky and Rusty style laptop in Photoshop”

  1. Ian Pluis Says:
    November 16th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Hi James
    Enjoyed your tutorial…
    I will have to try this.
    Thank you
    Ian

  2. James Says:
    November 16th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    thanks Ian for your comment~

  3. Hugo Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    maybe you could rotate the rocky texture a bit, just to match the laptop’s keyboard and screen angle, so it woudnt look like its an overlayed image

  4. James Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    Hi Hugo thanks for your comment! that’s a really good point, to be honest i didn’t pay attnetion to the keyboard and screen angle much, which I should’ve done.

  5. AJP Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 5:20 am

    OMG nice tut…
    work perfect !
    I would like the PSD File!
    just send it to pdmaicecube.password.is.c00e0703@live.dk

  6. James Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    HI AJP~ I have emailed the .psd file to your inbox.
    Thanks for visiting psdvault.com!

  7. arjey Says:
    November 24th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    cool tutorial.. kindly send me the psd file.. tnks a lot..

  8. Farbenfroher Grunge Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 9:15 am

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  9. zanzla Says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    realy nice & good ideea…..

  10. Habib Says:
    December 9th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    awesome tutorial James

  11. mostafa Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    best effect ever . i wana psd file for more
    thanx alot

  12. James Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Hi Mostafa~
    Sorry about the late reply, I have emailed the psd file to your email address. Cheers and have a nice day~

  13. Annie Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    Hi James,
    Great tutorial.
    Will you please mail me a copy of the psd file?

    /Annie

  14. James Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Hi Annie,
    I’ve sent the psd file to your email. Thanks and have a nice day!

  15. Philly Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 4:22 am

    Hey amazing tutorial…could you please send me a copy of the PSD file

  16. poorna Says:
    January 4th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    nice tutorial…good color combo with laptop ….

  17. James Says:
    January 4th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    thank you poorna!

  18. van Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    nice.. pls send me a copy of the psd file.. here geevan_02@yahoo.com..tnx a lot.

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