How to accomplish speaker 'bump'

[rubberduck]

To create radial lines around a subject I usually create a thin line of broken dots with a small brush vertically from top to bottom on a square image and then use radial blur a couple of times, I've created speaker membranes with it in the past.

Hope this helps.

[Shak]

Hey thanks :D

It worked very nicely, heres the end result:

http://shak.us/stuff/psr_speaker3.gif

Do you think thers anything I should do to make the woofer look more realistic?

I changed the texture of the dust cap but I dont think that looks very real? Any suggestions on how should I improve that?

[rubberduck]

That looks much better, maybe make the specular highlight on the cap a lot stronger to give the impression its a more spherical.

[Ian Jones]

What the guy said above and lower the transparency of those squiggle bits on the main circle.

[Shak]

Here what i have now:

http://shak.us/stuff/psr_speaker4.gif

I changed the gradient for the outer metal border piece for the speaker, and added a slight texture to it. I also made the dustcap's highlight a little brighter but not too bright, and added a smaller texture to that rather then the bigger one before.

How does it look now?

[halo]

looks ok :)...see if you can get anything different you may like by playing with unsharp mask and its threshold or even levels..:)

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