Mar 9 2010 5 Comments By Asher Abbasi

In this Adobe Photoshop icon creation tutorial, you will learn how to create a high-quality three-dimensional pen and paper icon from scratch. It entails simple Photoshop tools and commands, some crafty layer styles, and only needs basic knowledge of the Pen Tool, shape tools, and marquee selection tools to draw the shapes. This tutorial demonstrates how to create two icons (a piece of paper and a pencil), so don’t feel obliged to create both icons.

Jan 28 2010 40 Comments By Asher Abbasi

Icon designing can be a tough design field because you need to be able to create designs that are flexible when scaled up or down. In order to assure scalability, designers typically use a vector graphics program like Illustrator. However, in this intermediate-level tutorial, I’ll show you how to make an awesome icon from scratch using Photoshop. You will need basic knowledge of Photoshop and familiarity with the Pen Tool (P).