Icons Photoshop Tutorials

Carbon Styled Icon

Learn how to create a carbon like icon from scratch in adobe photoshop cs3, Free PSD included for every reader.

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Windows Messenger Icon in Photoshop

Learn how to create an icon like Windows Lives in Photoshop

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PST Wet and Shiny Thumbnail

In this tutorial, I will show you how I came up with the design of a wet-marble looking thumbnail for the contests on PST.

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simplistic tags icon

Learn how to create a simplistic sliding tags icon using adobe photoshop cs3.

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Glossy Error Icon Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn to make a glossy error icon out of simple shapes with Adobe Photoshop.

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Custom Hard Drive Icons

Learn how to create your very own set of custom hard drive icons.

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Shiny XP style clock icon

Creating a sweet shiny XP style clock icon

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Brighten your yellowish teeth with photoshop

Brighten your yellowish teeth with photoshop

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How to Optimize Photoshop CS2/CS3 Settings for Icon Design

Here are my thoughts about designing icons in Adobe Photoshop: – many respected icon designers consider Illustrator better tool to design icons – http://blog.turbomilk.com/ . I do not own or know Illustrator, but I’m pretty good at Photoshop, and I found that it can be tweaked to create icons fast and easy too. – the best way to design icons (even in small sizes) is vectors.

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The Power of Blending Options

Now, Blending Options are one of the first things Photoshop Novices stumble upon. The infancy of adding layer styles often leads to a short period of horrible drop shadows and cringeworthy bevels. Ironicly, this easily available styling is one of the harder things to master. Blending options is all about manipulating individual layers to obtain a certain effect. It’s a key aspect of creating icons, and will help you create textures, shading and highlighting.

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