Create a countdown in photoshop

Step 1
Create a new document in Photoshop 730px by 410px and then lets create
guidelines by just dragging some guides from the Ruler Tool and placing them
at the center of the canvas horizontally and vertically.

Step 2
Using the Ellipse Tool (U) create a 120px by 120px shape and place it in the
center. Hide the fill layer and a stroke of 5px, color to#e1e1e1.


Step 3
Zoom in about 1200% and create a 1px line using the Line Tool (U) starting
from the top edge of the circle down to the middle.

Step 4
Press Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard and you will see a transform control. See
that Pivot Point (something like the crosshair of a sniper) on the center of the
line? Lets move that to the bottom edge of the line by holding the Alt key on the
keyboard and clicking and dragging it to the very bottom.

Step 5
Dont press enter yet. While the transform control is still there change the value
of the Rotation to 10 degrees and press enter twice.

Step 6
Now press Shift + Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard, what this does is copy what
we did in Step 5. Just continue pressing the keys until you have a spiral line
shape.

Then change the color to white.

Step 7
Duplicate the base first/base shape that weve created and place it at the very
top of the layers panel. This will serve as the rotation indicator.

Apply this gradient overlay.

Step 8
Mask the part you want to hide and make sure it matches with the desired day,
time, min, sec that we will put it.

Step 9
Using the Text Tool (T) add a number for the desired day, time, min, sec and
add the right label to it.

Final Step
Group the layers that weve created and duplicate it 4 times and align them
horizontally by adding a 20px gap between each timer.

Look what I did here. With the timer that weve created I put an iOS7 wallpaper
and blurred it about 15%. Then I played with the layer mask to hide the
unnecessary parts, added some drop shadows and Boom! I came up with
image you see below.

Its a challenge for you to take this tutorial and go to the next level by just
playing with layer mask and adding touches to make it look interesting, yet still
minimal.