Textured Metal

This is another one of my favorites, which is very similar to the Orb with border tutorial. This one has a rusty metal look instead of a smooth one.

Prerequisites

Please know how to do the following before using this tutorial.

Exercise: Selections - Please be sure you know how to load a selection.
Layers window: Know your Layers window well! Make sure it is open by going to Window >> Show Layers.
Blending Options, Opacity, Layer Style: Make sure you know where these 3 are on your Layers window.
Layer names: I also name all of my layers for easier reference. To name your layers the same as mine, you can right click a layer and hit Layer Properties.

Objective

Final Result

Tutorial

Make a new canvas (I will be using 300x300), and create a New Layer . I will name this layer base.
Use the Elliptical Marquee , hold Shift, and create a circle.
Use the Paint Bucket to fill it with a medium gray color.
Now we want to grab a texture from somewhere. I will be using ones from Hybrid Genesis. Paste the texture of your choice on top, and then Desaturate it (Ctrl + Shift + U OR Image >> Adjust >> Desaturate) to make it greyscaled.

I'm going to name the layer with the texture on it as texture outer.
Load a selection on layer base and then invert it using Ctrl + Shift + I. Make sure layer texture outer is selected, and hit Delete on your keyboard to get rid of the outer part we don't need.
Change the Blending Option of layer texture metal to Overlay.
Now we want to use the Layer Styles and apply a Bevel and Emboss. Increase the Size to 50-60px and decrease the Shadow to 30-50%.

This is how it looks now.
Make a New Layer on top. I'm naming mine inner circle.
We want to make a circle inside, bordered by the larger one we just made. First, find out how big your base is. Load a selection on layer base, and then check the width and height dimensions in your Info window (Window >> Show Info).
I want a 25px border, so I am making my inner circle 50px less in size. My base is 230x230, which means I want a 180x180 circle.

Using the Elliptical Marquee, make a selection in that size and center it inside the larger circle.
Fill the selection with a light grey color on layer inner circle.
In the Layer Styles , bring up Bevel and Emboss again. Set the direction to Down. The rest of the default settings should be fine.

Now we have...
Grab another texture to paste on top (mine is from Hybrid Genesis again), and Desaturate it (Ctrl + Shift + U OR Image >> Adjust >> Desaturate).

I'm naming the new texture layer as texture inner.
Now we repeat what we did before to get rid of the outer parts. Load a selection on layer inner circle and invert it (Ctrl + Shift + I). Make sure layer texture inner is selected, and then hit Delete on your keyboard.
Change the Blending Option of layer texture inner to Overlay.
We want to make two types of shadows on top of this inner circle. Make two New Layers , which I will name big shadow and small shadow.
Load a selection on layer inner circle, then fill layer big shadow with black using the Paint Bucket .
With the selection still on, go to Select >> Feather. Set it to 20px, then hit Delete on your keyboard.
Repeat the previous two steps on layer small shadow (load selection on inner circle, fill with black, feather, delete). This time, use a Feather of 5px before hitting Delete.

Notice that it made a smaller but darker shadow inside the inner circle.
We're almost done, so let's put on a finishing touch. Let's add a shadow beneath the whole thing. Make a New Layer under layer base. I name this base shadow.
Load a selection on layer base. Use the Paint Bucket to fill layer base shadow with black. Deselect the selection (Ctrl + D). Go to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur and use 5px.
Add anything else you want, and you're done!

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Credits: Hybrid Genesis for textures