chain, make a metalic chain effect

[pyro3k]

ok its been a while since my last tutorial so i thought id make one on making chains in PS. After the below steps you should have something that looks like this



1) start a new sheets 400x400 and fill background with a dark color or gradiant. Now on a new layer make an oval using the eliptical marquee tool and fill with what ever color you like



2) now hold down ctrl and click on your oval layer to create a selection. Now go to select-->modify-->contract and enter a value of 10px. now hit delete and you will be left with a hollow oval.



3) now right-hand mouse click on the oval layer and select blending options. Fill in as below

drop shadow



inner shadow



inner glow



bevel and emboss



contour



satin



color overlay




ok you should now have a metalic link



4) now right-hand click on the oval layer and select duplicate layer. Now select the move tool from the toolbox and hit the down key on the keyboard to move the duplicate layer into the below position



5) ok now hold down ctrl on the keyboard and click on the original oval layer to select it like below



6) now selct the rectangle marquee tool and with the alt button held down select the right half of the top oval.....see below for help



you will now have the left half of the top link selected like below.



7) now make sure the lower link layer is selcted in the layers panel and hit delete....this removes a section of the lower link and makes them look like they are linked together.



and thats it....just keep duplicating the link with the piece cut out and moving it into postition to create a chain llike below



if you have any problems or questions i will be happy to answer them.

[triptico]

thanks for this excellent tut, pyro!

[DEAMONIC]

Great tut Pyro...Much more easy than the way i do it....

[raistlin]

Sweet dude thanks

[Papillon]

Def one that I will be trying out. Thank you.

[Papillon]

I did it! the instructions are clear and workable. Still don't understand how the little piece is cut out but it works really well! What do you think of my first effort?

[pyro3k]

wow, nice nat, glad you found it easy to follow....i had trouble describing the cutout part as its quite fiddley.

[Triple]

so thats how the olimpic logo is made....but moded a lil