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Ah right, I didn't notice that before...

Thanks!  That's why I like this site

EDIT: fixed

Hi ASHAR,
Thanks a ton for this tutorial... however I unable to download PSD file which you kept it for download

~Vijya

Welcome to CrXP vijya , you can get the PSD file from here , have a nice stay

Link to the PSD in the first post has been fixed

wow, awesome!

Nice Tutorial ! Thanks.

Wow this is an excelent tutorial! Thx a lot Asher
I tried it and that's the result ^^

What do you think¿?¿?

That's really nice , just decrease the size of inner-most ring and remove the part of reflection from it your outcome will be improved

thanks man, that realy cool tutorial .. and very .. veery useful

heres mine

Good outcome Kurama22 and welcome to CrXP

Nice outcome Kurama22, and welcome back to CrystalXP.

Well for some reason I can't see step 9's outer glow property picture.

I also don't get the selection I need to make with the rectangular marquee tool, where, waht size? I can't get the rainbow right because I can't get the rectangle right  

And also how did you get the pen tool path to become the selection? I can make the path, but I can't make it the selection...

Also for some reason I am getting a lot of anti-aliasing on the ring 2 and ring 3 layers, any idea why?

EDIT:

And is there some magical way of putting a selection, or layer centered on the canvas, by chnaging the x and y values? I've looked but I can't find it anywhere, so I'm centering them by hand and eye, so I know it wont be right that way  

I haven't got much time to look into your other questions at the moment, but I know the answer to your last question. If your selection is active, go to Select -> Transform Selection and change the x and y values.

About the selection:
With the pen tool still selected, right click on the path that you made and click "make selection" or something like that.

To center a layer (or many layers) on the canvas, select the layers that you want centered and then -

Layer > Align > vertical center and horizontal center (it should say something similar)

or

Edit > Auto-Align Layers

When I do that it just gives me two circles, as in it chose the space that would be filled for the path as the selection, as opposed to the path itself... if that makes sense, sorry if I'm not being clear.

Make it anywhere and of any size

Make sure that the path you make is a closed one , after doing so right-click on the path (with the Pen tool selected) and select 'Make Selection'

I use two ways for this:

1. Select the layer and pres Ctrl+T now give its co-ordinates as X= 1/2(Width of the canvas) , Y= 1/2(height of the canvas) in pixels.
2. As you create ny new document , fill a layer with any color and select the 'Move Tool (V)' , enable 'Show Bounding Box' option from 'Options Bar', this will bring a cursor at the center of the document , no press 'ctrl+R' and bring a vertical and a horizontal ruler at the center of the canvas (view this )

You should use 'Shape Tool' for making the circles

Well after some toil and trouble, I managed to finish it, and I'm fairly happy with the result:

I did however not use the gloss layer, as I found that actually made the CD darker, and I didn't get the rainbow right as I just ended up with a vaguely coloured blur... I drew the rectangular selection as just a box on the cd, and then after the pinch and gaussian blur I ended up with a dark splodge... ah well. But other than that... not bad And I had to guess the outer glow on the ring layer as I still can't see the picture for it But it didn't seem to work anyway

Nice outcome , I explained as clearly as I could in the last reply , if you still have some problems then you can download the PSD file

Thanks for the PSD Asher, that makes you the second person to have to give me one because I didn't quite get a tutorial

Still I think having to adapt mine to get the outcome probably helped me in some ways, having to mess around to get effects and such ^^

I'll have to make some icons and post soon.

Brilliant tutorial btw, cheers  

Nice & easy tutorial

And yet, no result

Ghost , actually i make cd only in illustrator

 nice tutorial

thanx  

Nice Tut..............

No results? You're all so boring

Nice one x3lumin8x, very realistic. However it looks like the bottom is cut off a touch.

I tried a few modifications on mine:
Basic Disk:

Blue-Ray:

CD-R:

DVD-R:

DVD-RAM:

The lost HD-DVD: