Segmented Tubes in Photoshop

1)

Create a new layer and make a retangular selection.

2)

Select the linear gradient tool and the copper gradient.

3)

Drag from the top to the bottom of the selection, you now have a copperpipe.

4)

For this excercise we want a chrome pipe, so suck all the color out bygoing Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+U to desaturate the image. Or select desaturate fromthe menu.

5)

Now to make it more shiny chrome, open our famous curves box and usea similar curve.

6)

And we now have a shiny Chrome pipe..

7)

To add the segments: Create a new layer and draw a 2 pixel line in black.

8)

Duplicate the layer and press Ctrl/Cmd+I to invert the color, press theright keyboard arrow key 2x to nudge the white line over. Change it tooverlay mode in the layer mode menu.

Link the 2 lines and merge linked.

Alt/Option+Shift and drag the lines to duplicate them along the pipe.

9)

Here is a finished one with some color added by using hue/saturationwith the colorize box checked.