Use PS to create a wooden handle knife

Does the knife in the lightning strike look cool? Can I make it? Don't worry, follow me step by step, and start to build your own knife!
(Note: This example uses PHOTOSHOP7.0 to make)
1. Create a new image document with a light gray background.
2. Create a new layer and use the Circle selection tool to make a narrow, oblate selection box and fill it with white. This is the embryonic form of the knife body.

3. Of course, the knife must have a handle, the knife we use wood to do. Create a new layer and use the rounded rectangle tool to make a rectangular knife. Pixel this layer.

4. Ctrl-click the hilt layer, select the hilt, perform the filter-noise-add noise, set the parameter 400.

5. Execute filter-blur-dynamic blur, angle setting 90, distance use 30, of course, you can also adjust according to your own feeling preferences! But don't go too far, we'll keep the lines to make the wood texture.

6. Perform filter-twist-rotate twist setting parameters as shown in figure.

7. Perform image-adjust-hue/saturation color check, adjust the parameters so that the knife appearance of wood colors, I use 14/39/-21, we can according to preferences to adjust.
Copy this layer.

8. Hold down the CTRL point body layer, select the knife body, enter the channel, and create a new channel alpha 1. Select the channel and perform a filter-blur-dynamic blur setting parameter on the channel as shown.

9. This step is very critical, the knife beauty on this step, click on the RGB channel, back to the layer to perform the filter-rendering-lighting effect, pay attention to use the ALPHA1 channel we just established, I set the parameters as shown below. You can adjust the lighting angle and the light and shade freely.

10. Perform filter-styling-find edges. The knife body effect comes out, if you feel dissatisfied you can delete history to adjust the lighting effect until you are satisfied.

11. Hold down CTRL point to handle the layer, select the hilt, keep the selection, point the body layer Press DELETE remove unnecessary knife body. It means to remove the knife under the knife.
12. Didn't we just copy a knife layer? Now we double-click the layer to open the layer style surface, set the bevel and emboss, use the inner bevel style, carve clearly, and set the parameters as shown. The effect of the hilt is OK, too.

13. Adjust the layer properties that have the layer style set to overlay.

14. OK, now the knife has been completed, the connection is merged in addition to all layers outside the background layer, open the layer style surface version, to add a bit shadow effect on the knife! If you like, you can also add markers on the body or knife!

Here the whole knife is completed, if you still want to play pants, you can use curve tools, adjust the red, green, blue channel to change the color of the knife body!