Anyways, Create a new image, 400x600 px.

Create a new layer. (CTRL+Shift+N)

Make your foreground color black.

Press U on the keyboard to bring up the shape tool. Select the Rectangle.

Make a rectangle on this layer like this:

Select a new foreground color. You won't see it, it'll be deleted anyways. (I'm using white.)

Make another rectangle in the current one like this:

Click on the magic want tool.

With this tool, click on the rectangle you just made. (The white one, in my case.)

Press Delete.

Click on the Background layer (the very first one that's always on all new documents.)

Make a new layer.

If you're making a black and white handheld, pick a green something like #0E9B22 for your foreground color. But since I'm making mine in color, I'll pick yellow.

Shift+Backspace (Fill)

CTRL+D (deselect)

Click on the layer with the black on it.

Right-click, select Layer Properties and name it Case.

Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss

Match these settings:

CTRL+U (Hue/Saturation)

Now's your time to pick it's outside color!

Match these settings, but you may choose the color of the Hue and Lighness options.

Create a new layer.

This time, look on the toolbar. See the button on the upper-left? Click on it and select the rectangular marquee.

Make a selection such as this:

You may once again pick another color for the foreground color, but I sugguest using gray. (Like #A3A3A3.)

Shift+Backspace (Fill)

Click on the Rectangle tool, and select the line-making tool. (You can just hit U.) Make the weight 2 px.

Press this button:

... And make the now foreground color a lighter shade than what you picked before. (#E3E3E3 over here, dude.)

Make a line go across the current selection like this:

Select the Magic Wand tool.

Click on the area right below the line you just made.

Now, click on the button to the right of the eraser tool. Select the gradient tool.

Make your settings look like this:

Now, drag from the top of the current selection straight down to the bottom. It will fill the currently selected part with a gradient.

It should look something like this now:

CTRL+D (deselect)

Create a new layer.

Click on the marquee tool (the one on the very upper-left corner,) and select the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

Make a selection about the same as this:

Press G to turn on the Gradient Tool.

Drag FROM BOTTOM TO TOP of the current selection.

CTRL+C (copy)

CTRL+V 3 times (paste)

This has just now created 3 more layers, all with the same thing on them, which is good.

Click on the upper-right hand tool the one with the little black arrow and cross. Click on the middle of the picture and drag your mouse to the right. You will see that a little duplicate of the original button will start moving with the mouse. Stop dragging and let go.

Now, click on the button, and move it over to the very right, so it's just the opposite of the other button on the left.

Click on the layer below the current one and repeat the last 2 procedures, except drag this button to the left of the last one.

Do the same to the layer below the current one, except drag this one next to the first button.

WHEW!! It should look something like this:

Now all these layers need names. Click on the layer containing the button on the very left. (It should be beneath the other 3 layers). Right-click on it, and select "Layer Properties". Then, name it "B 1" for Button 1.

Do this to the remaining 3 buttons. Name the one to the right of the one you just named "B 2", the one to the right of that and to the left of the right-most one "B 3" and the one on the very right "B 4".

Confusing? Sorry!!! But if you ever want to know what's on a specific layer, click on this button next to the layer:

It will hide everything on that layer, so you can see which one it is. This is a very helpful thing. I use it quite often.

Click on B 1.

Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and emboss

Match these options:

Repeat for layers B 2, B 3, and B 4. Or, you can go back to Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss on B 1, and click on "New Style". Save it with a name something like "Button". Then, click on another layer that will use these blending options. (So that would be any of the other 3 button layers.) On the color platte on the right side of the screen, you'll also see a tab that says "Styles". Click on that and scroll down to the very bottom. The last button on there is the blending option you just saved. So click on that last button, and it'll make that the blending style of the current layer. So just click on B 2, hit the button, B 3, hit the button, and B 4 (hit the button.) It's a lot easier that way, too!

Time to get out the paintbrush!! MUWAHAHAAHAAA... 

Click on B 1. See the button to the right of the airbrush? Click on it and select the Paintbrush Tool.

Select this brush:

Set your foreground color to a dark color. I'm using #1D008B. But you get to choose it!

Create a new layer.

Right-click on this new layer, and hit "Layer Properties". Name it "B 1 icon".

Zoom in on B 1's button.

Carefully draw an icon similar to this:

If you mess up, just undo. (CTRL+Z). 

Next button! click on B 2,

Create a new layer,

Name it "B 2 icon",

...And draw something like this on it: (If you want, you can change the ink's color. Be creative!)

Repeat the same process as for B 2's icon, but draw this on B 3's button (but on layer B 3 icon):

Repeat the last step, except this time on layer B 4 icon, and make it on top of B 4's button:

WHEEEWWW!!! Those are DONE!!! (but don't think that's the last of the icons!!!) It should look similar to this:

...And now for the center button!!

REALLY!!! IT WON'T BE AS BAD!!! I PROMISE!!!

Create a new layer, name it "Center Button". 

See the button right below the marquee tool button, and to the left of the magic wand? Click on it and select the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

CAUTION: While using this tool, you may mess up, mess up again, and get all tied up in knots. It's happened plenty of times to me. So if you ever do get tangled in the Polygonal Losso tool (or any of the Lasso's, in fact,) just hit Esc. It will stop the making of the current selection, and then you can start over again. I've had it when I almost crashed my computer of getting so mad with that thing not cooperating... Now then, enough with Lasso Horror Stories...

Zoom in on the little spot between the middle buttons, and make a shape like what's shown next. Start at a corner (preferably the upper left,) and when you want it to stop at a corner, so you can add another line, just left-click.  When you're done outlining and you're on your last line (the one that connects start and finish,) put your cursor over the starting point until you see a little circle on the lasso icon. Then click. That will select the selection. Here's what to copy: (HINT: Hold down SHIFT before you start lassoing. This way, no matter what, your lines will be either vertical, horizontal, or diagonal, which is what you need in this case!)

Select a LIGHT gray for your FOREground color, and a DARKER gray for your BACKground color. (light=#D8D8D8, dark=A3A3A3).

Hit U on the keyboard to summon the Straight Line tool. Draw one across like this:

Hit this button again:

...And now make another line going across, like this:

Click on the Paintbrush Tool.

Color in the bottom half of the selection, like this:

Click:

(By the way, do the same blending options as you did for the other buttons. If you saved them, great, click on that same button again, and move on!)

And now color in the top half:

Now, you can either leave it like that, or put in a center connector thing, like I have on my version.

Pick a color like red and color the borders in of the middle, like this: (BUT BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN OR SOMETHING THE FOREGROUND COLOR!!! ...Since it's now replaced with red...) And also, you can turn off the blending options [26] (or hit the eyeballs on the white list of blending options under this layer.)

Now, hit CTRL+D to deselect.

Click the magic wand and then the red part.

Make your foreground color the light gray that it was before (if you're using the colors I am, it's #D8D8D8.)

Select the Gradient tool.

Drag from the bottom to the top of the selection.

CTRL+D

Now, you can turn on the blending options again. (Just click on the button that we created for the B buttons, or click on the spot that the eyes used to be in, or just re-do the blending options from the buttons again.

FInished product:

Woohoo!!! Now, onto the screen.........

Zoom out to 100% and click on the layer with your screen. In fact, name it "Screen". 

Make a new layer. Name it "Write" because this is the thingee that you write on. 

Grab your Rectangular Marquee Tool and make a selection like this on the Write layer:

Now, you can pick a dark color of your choice. Actually, I've seen two types: a green (#69C364) or just black. Perhaps a very dark gray. But you can choose anything you like, but I'd go with black or green. Because I'm using black.

Shift+Backspace to fill it in.

CTRL+D to deselect.

If you chose green, make your foregrond color black. If you chose black, make your foreground color white. Or if you chose another color, choose something that has good contrast with the color you chose.

Hit U.

At the top of the screen, select the second from left icon, the rounded rectangle.

Make five rectangles like this:

Now, click on the Magic Wand tool.

Click inside one of the rectangles.

Hold down SHIFT, and select the rest.

Select>Modify>Contract

Type in 2 and hit ENTER.

Hit DELETE.

Make your foreground color the same color as you had originally (I have black, green's also good, or whatever you used.)

CTRL+Backspace.

CTRL+D

Make your foreground color the color you had for the 5 boxes. (white, in my case. Black's good on green.)

Time to take out the Paintbrush Tool again! 

Create a new layer, name it "Icons".

Zoom in on the upper-left hand corner icon. Make a house of some sort. You can copy mine if you like.

Now the one to the bottom of that one...

Upper-right hand corner...

Below that...

Hopefully, yours looks something like this:

Now, you want to put something on the screen, I know I know I know!! Open up a favorite picture of yours, something that you want to put on the screen. I reccomend a .JPG, basically .BMP, .JPG, or .GIF work. Anything without layers.

Now, as you may notice, your picture may be waaaay too big to fit on the screen. So here's what to do:

On your picture, look on the Layers platte. There will be one layer, Background. And that contains your picture. Click on it and drag it to the icon that looks like this at the bottom of the layers platte:

Now, you have a copy of that picture. Click on the eyeball by the original Background layer to turn it off.

Edit>Transform>Scale

Now, you can re-size it by clicking and dragging on the corners. But be sure to hold down SHIFT while you do; this way, it won't get all distorted. Also, some of it will probably get cut off when it goes onto the screen of the Handheld, so don't worry about making it perfectly sized.

Click on any of the icons on the toolbar. It will ask you if you want to apply the transformation. Click Apply.

Now, on the layers platte, hold down CTRL and click on the layer you're currently on. This will select the whole image.

CTRL+C to copy it...

Go back onto the handheld, click on the Screen layer, and hit CTRL+V to paste. Yes, I know it creates a new layer, and it's not centered. In order to take care of that, click on the upper-rightmost button on the toolbar. Then, drag the image around until it looks good.

Here's the next problem that's easy to fix: it's hanging over the side!! AGH!!

Press E to summon the eraser tool... Then, erase all the extras off, and there you have it-- a handheld, complete with your favorite picture! (Actually, you could also just draw onto the Screen layer, type on it, or whatever, but this works just as well!)

...Well, almost. Now you need brand names and a few touch-ups.

But first off, close out of the picture that you put on the screen, and DON'T save it, or you'll be really sorry.

Click on the Case layer and create a new layer. 

Click on the T (Text Tool).

Click right at the center top of the handheld. You can do any font that you like in any color, AS LONG AS IT FITS. (Size 12-18 reccomended!)

You can play around with blending options if you like. If you use Bevel and Emboss, make sure the direction is up.

Click on Layer 3, the one that has the background for the buttons. name it "B Background".

Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss

Match this:

Create a new layer.

Once again, with the text tool, type in a small name, maybe for the handheld...

Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss

Match these settings:

THAT IS IT!! YOU ARE DONE!! WHEW!!! With 40 screenshots and 1 great product, I think this turned out pretty good!

Hope you enjoyed it!

...Now, you can add all sorts of fun backgrounds to it... Play with the blending options somewhat...

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Actaully, if you want, you can always give the case a more grainy look.

Click on tkhe Case layer.

Filter>Texture>Grain

Settings:

Intensity: 46

Contrast: 50

Grain type: Regular

Or, you can also go into the blending options and add a pattern to the case, just make it personalized! (Blending options, Hue/Saturation... anything! Just have fun!)

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