This tutorial is meant to explain how to design semi-realistic objects achieved through simple procedures. The tutorial mostly uses shape layers, which will help you edit them later on and make your work more flexible and scalable.
This free set of social media icons has 20 icons of popular social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. Each icon has dimensions of 48×48px and is in PNG format. It’s perfect for blogs and content-centric websites (it also includes an RSS feed icon). It’s available to you, Design Instruct readers, for your commercial and personal work; attribution is not required but is greatly appreciated. You may not redistribute or resell the files and this icon pack.
Through this Photoshop icon design tutorial, I will show you how to make an appealing drawing of a recycling bin with crumpled and creased white paper inside and around it — all from scratch. We will take advantage of tools such as the Gradient Tool, Custom Shape Tool, Rounded Rectangle Tool, and simple Photoshop functions such as Skew Transform and Free Transform to design our icon.
In this icon design tutorial, we will create a three-dimensional folder with an appealing perspective — all from scratch — using basic drawing and blending mode techniques in AdobePhotoshop. The process is straightforward, yet I hope you will take away several valuable methods that you can incorporate into your own Photoshop workflow.
Emotubbles is a new way to express your emotions. The word “Emotubbles” is the union of two words: Emotions and Bubbles. Express your emotions with the help of cute and tiny chat bubbles that express emotions! This icon pack comes with 16 distinct icons as 27×27px PNG files. The PSD file is included so that you can edit the icons to suit your requirements.
This detailed icon design tutorial is meant to show you how to use Photoshop to create cute, cartoony creatures. In this case, we are creating a robotic-like yellow alien. We will use layer styles, drawing techniques, and more to arrive at our final product. There will be a strong emphasis on detailing our icon to give it its unique, shiny look.
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