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Yeah this was almost defiantly created in photoshop. The high quality just means is was done by a professionally. There's a lot of advanced tutorials out there which could teach you how to make something with a similar style.
You could just brush a white circle then gaussian blur it, or use the dodge tool.
Nice job overall, but they missed this part:
you can always visit deviant website on stock image they have pattern that you could use in this case for the background, honestly it is not so badly hard job that this is, I am used to brush skin to perfection, it just requires patience and eyes and practicing and practicing, the rest is text layout, and a lens fare !-)
This is a great site Royalty Free Stock Image: Metal backgrounds set