How To Make A Clock in Photoshop

Posted by Jo Murphy Sep 25, 2007

When making Flash Cards teachers can change the time on the face of a clock.

Here is how

• make a basic clockface in Photoshop Elements
• print this off
• laminate it.
• print and laminate hands for the clock

Change the time on several versions of the same clock and hold up as Flash Cards.

For Making Clocks With Toddlers I used this technique to create the clock on the wall. These are the steps to create a basic but adaptable clock in Photoshop Elements or Photoshop.

• Use the Elipse Tool to create one larger circle and a smaller one within
• Colour this with the Paint Bucket Tool
• Shade it by selecting the rim with the Magic Wand and dragging the Gradient Tool across this selected Rim
• Using the Line Tool cross two short lines to be the arms of the clock place
• Add dots and numbers to the clock face
• Place a dot at the centre so that this can be the anchor
• Select and use the Gradient Tool -drag it from the same direction so that the direction of the shading is uniform

To change the time on the clock

• save a blank clock face in a folder
• keep all versions of the clock in the same folder
• open the blank clock face
• add the hands telling the time
• place the dot back in the centre to neaten up the appearance where the hands meet

You can not only create Flash Cards to use when teaching the time but you can renew old ones by

• scanning them
• erasing the centre of the clock face
• change the time on a new layer

As your students get older you can teach them this technique. They can use it when cartooning or writing comics.