35+ Awesome Tutorials Teaching You How To Create Your Own Icons: "
Icons are used almost everywhere. They are basically symbols and great for communication almost anything. Some Icons are detailed to a degree that makes them look almost photographs while others are the simplest possible drawings. Really there are Icons available for free or on commercial license to cover nearly any you may have. Still if you cant find exactly what you need there is still the option to create the icon yourself. Mastering the techniques in either Illustrator or Photoshop needed to create Icons can be really useful. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of more than 35 great tutorials to get you started creating your own Icons. The article has been split up in 3 sections – Photoshop Tutorials, Illustrator Tutorials and Useful articles in Icon design.
Photoshop Tutorials
Photoshop Laser Printer Icon Tutorial
How to Create Photoshop Laser Printer Mode
Under Construction Helmet Icon Tutorial
In this tutorial, we’ll be creating our very own icon from a photograph. The tutorial is published by psdtuts and it is of exceptionally high quality and may be used as inspiration for transforming other objects from photographs into icons!
How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let’s have some fun with this.
Traffic Cone Icon Tutorial
Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop, cool icon for “under construction”. Another great psdtuts tutorial.
How to Make a Calendar Icon
In this tutorial we’re going to show you how we made the Calendar Icon from our most popular icon set “Coquette”.
How To Make An Icon
The Making of an Icon
A great tutorial on process of designing an note pad icon. Download the finished icon from theIcons Section.
Draw magnifying glass
Learn essential drawing skills in Photoshop when creating this good looking icon
World Icon Photoshop Tutorial
Create a great looking world icon in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial shows some really great techniques.
Glossy Round RSS Icon Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you how to create a round RSS icon for our website or blog with some really cool light effects.
Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design
A popular icon that you can find on the internet is the lock icon. It is widely used to identify secure Web pages. It often indicates password fields for secure files. Wherever you wish to place a lock icon, this tutorial will show you how to create an attractive one for you to use!PSDTUTS Plus membership is required to download the PSD.
Vista Folder Icon
Learn how to create a folder icon from scratch
Making digital watch icon
Glossy Graduation Hat Icon Tutorial
Step by step turorial that will show you how to design a glossy, clean graduation cap icon.
Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop
When we are working on a Web design project, we quite often need icons to show commands like add, delete, or edit. With the Web 2.0 trend, the use of badges and subtle 3D has become very popular. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a really easy and very nice 3D effect to be used in either buttons and icons or elements that need some depth.
How to Design Mini Icons
Learn the technique of using Photoshop pens tool for creating mini pixel icons. Download PSD
3d Logo
Make your own 3d logo using this simple tutorial
Vista Error Icon Photoshop Tutorial
Learn how to create a Windows Vista erroe icon using basic Photoshop techniques.
Pyramid Icon Design
You will be creating a pyramid icon or logo on this tutorial. All steps are on separate pages – really annoying.
Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon
n this tutorial, we will show you how to cover an object in a Jaguar style fur texture. In this example, we’ll cover a computer folder, but this technique can be used with any other object, like a CD cover, a mouse, or even a computer.
Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon
Let’s go back in time and look at Windows XP system icons. We’ll get inspired by an old computer icon. Then we’ll create a simple monitor icon in that style. Icon Factory is the company that created the icons for both Vista and XP Windows operating systems. Their works serves as inspiration for not only this tutorial, but many icons created today.
Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials
Transparent Battery Icon
In this tutorial, we’ll create a detailed icon of a battery similar to the one used for the iPhone touch. The battery “fuel” color can be changed as well as the “fuel” level, allowing the icon to be used to create a battery or power meter for applications, or simply as a graphic in any type of design.
How to Create a Shiny Bucket Icon
Learn how to create a rational vector bucket icon with this tutorial.
Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator
Probably one of the most popular and recognisable icons in the web universe; the RSS icon is displayed on many website to indicate the availability of a subscription feed. There are pre-made icons you can download and place on your website, however this tutorial cover the process of creating your own custom vector RSS icon in Illustrator.
Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon
Learn to make a handy calendar icon to use on your blog, website, or print projects. We’ll use Illustrators Path and 3D tools to create this design. Also, a simple page curl effect will be demonstrated as well.
iTunes Icon Illustrator Tutorial
Great tutorial that will help you master your Blend techniques in Adobe Illustrator while replicating the iTunes icon. The challange of this tutorial is to use various Blending modes and blending techniques to replicate the iTune icon. This tutorial is a good exercise to master your Blend techniques. Download Source File
How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon
This tutorial will show the intermediate-to-advanced Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a realistic military style cap icon using predominately gradients, blends, and the Gradient Mesh Tool. We’ll be using a photo reference to base this illustration on, though utilizing creative judgment throughout the process.
How to Design a Set of Multicolored Buddy Icons
In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a set of multicolored buddy icons. This tutorial uses some basic shapes, gradients, Feather, and Illustrator’s powerful Live Color feature. These techniques are easily translated into other designs and illustrations.
StumbleUpon 3D Icon Tutorial
Learn about designing a 3D social bookmarking icon in Adobe Illustrator. You can download the icon here as well
How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make a cool, or should we say geeky, glasses icon. You should be versed in Adobe Illustrator’s tools to complete this tutorial. You’ll learn how to take creative license and create an illustration that uses a photo reference, but differs a bit in the final design.
Icon Design Articles
Icon Design Explained (Quickly)
Quick slides for teaching some fundamentals
10 Mistakes in Icon Design
Denis Kortunov explains the mosty commonly observed mistakes in icon design
Icon Design Explained (Quickly)
7 Principles of Effective Icon Design
Some guidelines and principles before approaching icon design
10 Tips for Effective Icon Design
Translating the ‘iconic’ features of an object into something that is metaphorically meaningful and instantly recognizable is no easy task — particularly when the design needs to be as effective at 48×48 pixels as it is at 256×256!
Icon Design: Bitmap vs Vector
A good article about differences between bitmap and vector file formats
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