Use the circle marquee tool to filled a circle, made a smaller circle inside of it with the marquee tool and then deleted the center.

Press on control and select on the torus’s layer.

Create a new layer, contract the selection by a few pixels, go to Select -> Modify -> Contract.

Feather the selection a little. Go Select -> Modify -> Feather.

Fill the selection on our new layer with white. Do this and then you should get this type of image below.

Deselect the image by hitting Command (Control for PC) + D. Hit Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur.

Duplicate the top layer by dragging the thumbnail over that little piece of paper at the bottom of the layers palette again. Change the blending mode to Color Dodge.

Then go Image -> Adjust -> Hue and Saturation. Hit the Colorize checkbox. Adjust the Hue slider where you want it. Then increase the Saturation and lower the lightness value. Hit OK. Drop the opacity of the layer now to around 60% or so. Also drop the opacity of the original reflection layer.

Changed the bottom layer's color to blue with the Hue and Saturation adjustment, duplicated that layer. Change the top layer to Color Dodge mode and adjusted the opacity down, Add a blue drop shadow to the very bottom torus layer.

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