Create a new document, 400x400 pixels.

Create a new layer, and name it "floppy".

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool.

Hold down SHIFT and drag a square that's about the size of a floppy disk, or at least the size that you want it to be.

Once you've outlined it, click and drag in the middle of the new square, and drag it so it looks centered.

Now, make your foreground color the color you want your floppy disk to be. For this tutorial, I'll use blue. (#0033FF).

Edit>Fill

Next, make your foreground color something way different than the color your floppy currently is. I'll use orange. (opposites are reccomended.)

Hit U on the keyboard; this will bring up the shapes tool. At the top, select the straight line tool. Here's the settings:

Weight: 2 px

Mode: Normal

Opacity: 100%

Anti-aliased [checked]

(Please keep in mind that you will not actually see this color on the final floppy.)

Now, drag a line like the one shown in the following picture, just at the upper-right hand corner.

You may have to attempt that last step several times; if you mess up, hold down CTRL and hit Z. This will undo your last move, and if you hit it again, it will redo the last move.

Next, fill in that little closed-off triangle with the fill tool. You can summon it by hitting G on the keyboard.

Hit CTRL+D on the keyboard to deselect your current selection.

Select the magic wand tool (at the top of the tools platte, under the arrow.)

Click inside the orange triangle that you just filled in.

Select>Modify>Expand

Type in 1 and hit ENTER.

Hit DELETE.

CTRL+D

Hit E on the keyboard to summon the eraser.

On the right-hand side of the screen, there is a platte at the top that shows a thumbnail of your image. See the slider bar? Click and drag the arrow over to the right, but not all the way. Now, click on the upper right-hand corner of the thumbnail. Drag the little red box around until you can see the corner which used to have a little colored triangle. (Just to let you know, I have it zoomed in at 1158.83%). You will notice some leftovers of the triangle. BE VERY CAUTIOUS WITH THIS NEXT PART. You don't want to go erasing the floppy disk now...

Erase the leftovers.

Now you will have a nice, crisp floppy edge. 

Click on the percentage box that shows you how zoomed in you are (it's on the bottom left-hand corner of the navigation platte, the one we are working in.) Type in 100 and hit enter.

Create a new layer and name it "arrow icon".

Hit U on the keyboard.

At the top of the screen, select the Custom Shape tool.

Next to Shape:, click o the carrot (the little arrow pointing down,) and select an arrow that looks good to you. I selected the third icon on there, which can be seen in the next screenshot (I colored it in red):

Make your forground color black.

Next, drag it so it points right on the upper-left hand corner:

Now bring up the rectangular marquee tool by hitting M.

Next, select the area around the arrow you just created. So now the arrow should be inside a little 'marching ants' box. (the little dotted lines that go around a selected section are often referrred to 'marching ants'.)

Edit>Tansform>Rotate

Click and drag outside of the selected box (now in rotation mode) and drag it so the arrow points up.

Next, click on the Text icon on the platte. It will ask you if you want to apply, cancel, or don't applyr; click on Apply.

CTRL+D

Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss

Match these settings:

On the left, check the box by "Color Overlay". Now click on "Color Overlay".

Settings:

Blend Mode: Normal

[color box] make this the same color as the floppy.

Opacity: 100%

At the right-hand side, under OK and Cancel, there is a button that says "New Style...". Click on it and type in "floppy". Hit OK. This is now a saved option. You'll need it later!

Now you can click on OK.

You're probably wondering why we clicked on the Text icon.. you'll find out now!

Create a new layer and name it "HD".

Please note that at the time of making this tutorial and taking the screenshots, I always thought it was an upside-down "CH". So that is why some of the screenshots have an upside-down "CH" instead of "HD", which will start appearing later.

Click on the upper-right hand corner of the floppy and type "HD". These are my font settings:

Font: Arial

Regular

36 pt

Smooth

Color: black

You can click and drag outside of the text area to drag the text around. This comes in very handy. And if you're going to change the text to the settings above after you've already typed "HD", just highlight the text and change the settings to match mine.

On the right-hand side of the screen, there's a platte that has these tabs: Color, Swatches and Styles. Click on Styles and scroll to the bottom, then select the last icon on there. This is the last one you saved, which is "floppy". This will make the text the same as the arrow.

Aaaahh, the floppiness...

Create a new layer, and name it "label".

Select the Rectangular Marquee.

Now, for the Rectangular Marquee, set the settings next to Feather: as "1 px".

Next, drag a nice little rectangle in the place of where the label goes, as on a real floppy. Make it resemble this picture:

Hit I on the keyboard. This will bring up the eyedropper tool.

Click within the original color of the floppy.

Edit>Fill

Remember the Styles tab on the platte? We're going back there again, and so click on the "floppy" style again.

You will notice down on the Layers platte that under the "label" layer, 2 new things have popped up-- "Bevel and Emboss" and "Color Overlay". Double-click on "Bevel and Emboss".

Match these settings:

CTRL+D

Create a new layer and name it "Sticker".

Back to the Rectangular Marquee tool, create the outline of a sticker, as shown here:

You have to now set the foreground color to the color you want the sticker to be. I'm choosing white, but it's completely up to you.

Edit>Fill

Select the Text tool.

Make something like the following:

(Yes, those would be underscores.)

Looks pretty good, eh?

Oh no... The TOUGH part!!

Zoom back in again, and select the "floppy" layer.

Hit E to summon the eraser.

Zoom in on the top edge of the floppy.

Erase it in such a way to shape it like a true floppy... In other words, just copy this shape:

Click on the top layer on the Layers platte. It should be the one that has the text on the sticker.

Create a new layer, and name it "slider" for the little metal thingee that slides.

Using the rectangular marquee, select the shape for the slider... like this:

Select a gray for the foreground color.

Edit>Fill

Filter>Texture>Texturizer

Settings:

Texture: Canvas

Scaling: 100%

Relief: 5

Light Direction: Top

[Invert] UNCHECKED

Filter>Stylize>Wind

Settings:

Method: Wind

Direction: From the Right

Filter>Stylize>Wind

Settings: 

Method: Wind

Direction: From the Left

Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur

Type 0.5 and hit ENTER.

CTRL+D

Use the marquee tool to select a smaller rectangle within this one, as shown in the picture:

Hit DELETE

CTRL+D

Next, click on the "floppy" layer.

Select a little box in the bottom-right hand corner of the floppy and delete it.

Select another little box in the bottom-left hand corner, and delete it, too.

Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss

Match these settings:

Click on the Background layer.

Create a new layer, and name it "black thing".

Make the foreground color black.

Remember that little square in the bottom left-hand corner we erased? Well, make another rectangle outside of it.

Edit>Fill

CTRL+D

Looks really great, right? Well, remember the "slider" layer? click on it...

Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow

Match these settings:

Then, one last little touch-up...

Click on the "floppy" layer.

Select the line tool, just as you did the Custom Shape tool, except at the top click on the icon of the line.

Select a darker color than the color of your floppy for the foreground color. (If your floppy's color is black, select a gray.)

Create the track that the metal slider thingee slides on, as shown in the completed picture.

THAT'S IT!!! YOU'RE DONE!!! Now you know how to make realistic Photoshop Floppies!! Hope you enjoyed it!

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