30 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Icons
Photoshop is a great tool for creating web design, graphic design, retouching photos or drawing, but this time we’ll see how to create icons. Icons can add an effective way to focus on attention and highlight important details. Internet is full of beautiful icons, but we want to create our own icons. This collection shares some of the best tutorials on creating icons in Photoshop.
In this article, you’ll find a only highest-quality tutorials on designing professional and detailed icons with brief descriptions. Some of them allows you to download PSD’s.
1. Design a Vintage Radio Icon in Photoshop
In this Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to design an old vintage radio using simple shapes, gradients, patterns and textures.
2. Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop
This is an inspiration from the Bolt movie poster. In this tutorial you will create a glossy thunder logo using a few layers and some white shapes that will make the thunder more interesting and glossy.
3. Draw a Speaker Icon in Photoshop Part 1 / Part 2
This tutorial will show you in every details on how we can create a set of speakers icon from scratch in Photoshop. For it long tutorial was split into Part 1 and Part 2.
4. Photoshop Tutorial: Design the Mac OS X Leopard Folder
Learn how to create the popular Mac OS X Leopard Folder icon using Photoshop in just Ten Easy steps. Comes with a PSD, useful brushes and custom shapes!
Tutorial author recommends: “Before you begin reading this tutorial, I highly recommend that you learn how to use the “Pen Tool”. If you’re not an experienced photoshoper you might want to read this tutorial as it goes over basic “Pen Tool” skills.”
5. How to Create a Van Icon in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to sketch and create beautiful icon from it.
6. Design a Realistic 3D Baseball Cap in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll see how to create a realistic 3D Baseball cap in Adobe Photoshop using the Pen tool, brushes and some nifty tricks.
7. Draw a Classy 3D Poker Chip in Photoshop
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to illustrate a 3D Poker Chip in Adobe Photoshop starting from scratch. New Photoshop users should consider running through Pen Tool guide first.
8. Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glossy mail icon that can be used for your apps or websites.
9. How to Create A Swanky Coffee Table Icon in Photoshop
In this simple, yet effective tutorial you will learn to incorporate the power of subtlety into icon design. We’ll be creating an icon similar to the design of Isamu Noguchi’s 1944 classic coffee table.
10. Create a Cheerful Twitter Bird in Photoshop
This comprehensive tutorial will teach you how to create a happy Twitter bird with great detail in Photoshop.
11. How to Create a Cute and Adorable Twitter Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Cute and Adorable Twitter Icon. Throughout this tutorial, you will use some of the basic tools like Ellipse Tool, Pen Tool and Gradient Tool.
12. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial we’ll be going though creating a semi-photo realistic coffee cup, with some nice frothy coffee.
13. Render a Realistic CD in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to render a realistic CD using Photoshop.
14. Design a 3D Box Icon in Photoshop
In this step by step tutorial you’ll learn how to create a sleek Box Icon in Adobe Photoshop for use in apps or websites.
15. Draw 3D Crystal Icon in Photoshop
This tutorial will show how to create a nice and glossy 3D crystal icon with some simple drawing and transformation techniques.
16. Create a Dock Icon Folder in Photoshop
Create a dock icon folder in photoshop, customize it and fill your dock with all your favorite folders.
17. Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to control shadow and reflection to add realism to the illustration. As with any icon design, it’s a combination of the overall design and subtle details that gives quality results.
18. How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to draw a pencil icon. You’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations.
19. Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to draw a traffic cone, another handy icon for “under construction” elements. This cone icon is inspired by the VLC Player site.
20. Create a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design
In this tutorial,you will see how to make a professional, shiny, clean graduation hat icon. The techniques in this tutorial will help you graduate to the next level in icon design.
21. Photoshop Film Clapper Logo Icon
This tutorial will teach you how to create detailed Film Clapper Logo icon.
22. Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon
In this tutorial, you’ll see how to cover an object in a Jaguar style fur texture.
23. Glossy RSS icon
In this tutorial we are going to create a colorful RSS icon for your blog.
24. Design a Glossy Download Icon
This tutorial will teach you how to create a graphic that does just that.
25. Photoshop design USB portable speaker logo icon in Photoshop
This tutorial provides useful information on creating USB portable speaker logo icon in Photoshop.
26. Custom Hard Drive Icon
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a custom hard drive icon in various colors.
27. USB Stick Tutorial
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create modern usb stick.
28. LG LCD Monitor Icon
This tutorial will teach you how to design modern and stylish LCD TV icon in Photoshop.
29. Create an Adobe Box Icon in Photoshop
Create an Adobe box Icon in Photoshop. You’ll earn techniques on brushes, blur, layer mask and blend modes.
30. Create a Speed Gauge and Watch Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll create a Speedometer/Gauge icon in Photoshop.
Bookmarked this one and will try some of these tutorials to learn something new :) hopefully get an idea for my own logo/icon
WoW :) Awesome collection of icons tutorial. Bookmarked it. Thanks for sharing this nice post.
Cool. That’s what i need now. Great blog. Keep going!
This is a dream post for me, a true icon fanatic!
greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat!!
Successful outcomes. ;)
@WipeR that’s great. We’ll create WebDesignFan Flickr Group soon.
Nice work :)