Create a Simple Media Player in Photoshop

Interested to create your own simple media player? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a simple media player using Adobe Photoshop with the time estimation is only 30 minutes. Let’s get started!

Tutorial Assets

You’ll need the following icons from our Free Deira UI Kit, please download them before you begin.

Here, what you’ll be creating

1. Create the Canvas

Step 1

Create new file, Open menu ‘File’ -> ‘New’. Set Width: 800px, Height: 600px

Step 2

On the layer tab, choose ‘create new fill’ and choose ‘Solid Color’

Pick a solid colour to #293038

Step 3

Create the guide. Choose menu ‘View’ -> ‘New Guide’ and fill it with this:

• Vertical : 100px, 150px, 170px, 400px, 630px, 650px, 700px
• Horizontal : 100px, 250px, 300px, 420px, 430px, 445px, 460px, 470px, 500px

And it would look like this:

Then lock the guide

2. Create the Screen

Step 1

Create an object with ‘rectangle tool’ radius: 6px and color: #3E4955

Step 2

Convert the object to smart object with right click on the mouse at rectangle form and choose ‘Convert to Smart Object’.

For now, we finish with the screen. With this smart object we can add the picture later easily.

3. Create the player base

Step 1

First create new folder that will contain player element with click “create a new group” & give a name.

Step 2

Create an object with ‘rectangle tool’ radius:100px and color: #252E38

Step 3

Add Layer style with right click with mouse on the object player and choose “Blending Options”

And add this style

And here the result:

4. Create the button

Step 1

Create an object with ‘ellipse tool’ and color: #3B434C

Step 2

Add Layer style with right click with mouse on the object player and choose “Blending Options” & add this style

Here it would look like

Step 3

Add icon in the center of the button. The icon I used here is from our freebie “Deira UI Kit”. You can download it here.

Open the psd file and select ico-prev

At the top menu choose edit -> devine Custom shape. And give a name

Now your can find your icon in “custom shape”

Put the icon we create before to the button with color #1E252D

4. Duplicate the button

Step 1

Put these two object into one new group give a group name

Step 2

Duplicate the group and give another name. Right click with the mouse and choose “Duplicate Group”

Step 3

Delete the “prev icon” and change into “play icon” with color #FEF461

Step 4

Duplicate “bt-prev” group and give another name. and flip the icon

5. Create Playing Bar

Step 1

First before we create the bar, we must add another guide again. Choose menu ‘View’ -> ‘New Guide’ and fill it with this:

• Vertical : 246px, 274px, 372px, 416px, 426px, 603px, 608px
• Horizontal: 440px, 450px

Step 2

Create a new group and give it a name

Step 3

Create an object with ‘rectangle tool’ radius:50px and color: #161B22

Step 4

Add Layer style

Step 5

Create an object with ‘rectangle tool’ radius:50px and color: #FF3C61

Step 6

Add Layer style

6. Create Data field

Step 1

Create a new group and give it a name

Step 2

Create an object with ‘rectangle tool’ radius:100px and color: #1E252D

Step 3

Add Layer style

Step 4

Add text with font “helvetica”, size “12pt” and color: #999999

Add another text

Here the result

7. Create volume icon

Step 1

Create volume icon with custom shape and color: #FCF66B

8. Change the screen image

Step 1

Now we back to “smart object” shape that we made before. double click on the thumbnail and add your picture there

Step 2

Now we will create curved corners on the image you put before. first select your image and with [ctrl]+left click on mouse at “shape 1” and then click “add vector mask”

Then save it. here the result

9. Add Play icon

Step 1

And the last thing now is to put play icon at center of the screen with custom shape and color #FFFFFF. Then change the “Opacity” this layer to 50%.

And here is our final result:

Your Turn

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– Written by R. Yahya –