Design a flat progress bar in a circle using Photoshop

If you want your progress bar to look a bit different you can create it in a shape of a circle with counter in the middle. We will create in a so called flat design trend using Adobe Photoshop.

Create a new Photoshop document and a New Layer.

Choose the Elipse Tool.

Set a black foreground color.

Or simply press D key, to set a black/white color.

While holding Shift key draw a circle (see picture).

Holding shift key creates a perfect circle.

Then click above on Layer, Rasterize and select Shape.

Hold Ctrl (CMD in MacOS) and click the new layer's thumbnail (see picture).

This way you create a layer selection.

In the menu click Select, Modify and choose Contract...

In the new Contract Selection window set Contract By to 5 or more pixels and click OK.

We shrunk the selection a bit.

Now press Delete key to delete everything inside the selection.

In menu click Select and Deselect, to remove the selection.

Chose the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

No select the part of the circle you want to change the colour of the similar way I did.

Press Ctrl (Cmd in Mac OS) and J, to duplicate selection into a new layer.

In the menu click Layer, Layer Style and choose Color Overlay.

Choose the color you like and click OK.

My circular progress bar so far.

Choose the Horizontal Type Tool (T for a keyboard shortcut).

Enter the percentage that the colour is representing and you are done.