How to draw this shape?

[peace]

Hello,

I would appreciate if someone could explain how to draw this shape in Photoshop. Thanks.

 

[MsOz]

Use the circular marquee. Make the central dot on its own layer.
For the arced sections, pull out the circular area with the marquee and stroke the selection and repeat.
Then make a selection with the polygonal lasso around the section to keep, invert the selection and delete the remainder of the 3 circles. Merge down.

 

[peace]

Thanks. It looks like the "soundwaves" were stroked after they were created because of the rounded corners. I used your technique and rounded the corners manually. I think there is another, easier tricky way to make this type of shape.

 

[MsOz]

You could make the waves with the rounded rectangle shape tool, and then curve them with the Shear tool or the Liquify filter.

 

[Guest]

- Dot: create a cicular shape with the right color. Hold shift+alt to make it a perfect circle.
- Rings: create 3 rings with the shape tool, again holding alt+shift Make sure that the icon named "path" is selected in the tool bar
- Stroke (sub menu of paths palette) all rings at the same time
- Select a segment of these 3 circles by using the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Invert the selection and press delete.
- To round the edges; select the layer that contains the segment by CTRL+clicking on its layer
- Add a mask, blur the mask slightly and use levels to round the corners. This part needs more explaining, but that would take me a while (including some screenshots). I'll see if I can find a link that explains this quite common "smoothing"/"Rounding corners" technique.

Estimated time it took me? About 3 min.

 

[Guest]

Btw, for some strange reason the image on this board is smaller than the one I posted and it also shows rough edges that are not in the original image. [confused]

Therefore I post the original PSD file too.

 

[peace]

Wow, nice. TY everyone. These techniques give me a deeper understanding of shapes in PS that I desperately needed. Thanks again!