Start with a silvery gradient for a background, then drag out a horizontal and vertical guide for our crosshairs that we always start with for circular objects.

Then, on a new layer, create a circular selection.

Fill the selection with a Radial Gradient using the Gradient Tool. To simulatte shading, start your gradient in the upper left of the selection (but not right at the edge), and drag to the lower right.

There's a basic rivet, but it needs more...

Choose Layer Menu/Layer Style/Bevel and Emboss, and give the rivet a Pillow Emboss to make it look sunk into the background.

The rivet is done. Now, let's turn it into a single slot screw...

On a New Layer, create a rectangle using the Rectangular Marquee tool. Don't worry if you make it longer than it needs to be.

COMMAND-CLICK (PC: CONTROL-CLICK) the Rivet layer to get a selection, then choose Select Menu/Invert to invert the selection.

Next, hit delete on the slot layer to chop off any excess black bar and to make it conform to the shape of the rivet as shown here.

Hide the slot layer.

Then create a New Layer, choose the Gradient Tool with your basic White to Black gradient (Linear, not Radial), COMMAND-CLICK (PC: CONTROL-CLICK) the slot layer to get a selection, and create the gradient you see at left.

Then rotate (Edit Menu/Transform/Rotate) the slot to match the direction the light is coming from as shown.

To make it look like it's sticking up from teh background, give it a slight shadow (Layer Menu/Layer Style/Drop Shadow).

If on the other hand you want it to look countersunk into the background, use Pillow Emboss instead of a shadow.

The Phillips Head version shown here is made by creating 2 black bars perpendicular to each other instead of 1 black bar, merging the 2 black bars, creating a selection from them, hiding them, then on a New Layer, do the same thing you did to the single slot version with a gradient, then in the end, Bevel the slot.

The Hex Screw version is easy enough. Choose the Polygon Tool, make sure it has 6 sides, then basically do the same thing you did to get a Phillips version, ending with a Bevel as shown.

Note the direction of the gradient inside the slot and the direction of the highlight and shadow of the Bevel.

And of course, our weathered, dirty, pitted screw from Tutorial 2-Dirty Pitted Metal.

How'd I get the more metallic look in this image?

Curves.

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