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40 Icon Tutorials for Photoshop

Published September 8th, 2008 in Design

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There are a growing number of excellent Photoshop tutorials creating for your own icons. Here are 40 of the best.

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    45 Responses to “40 Icon Tutorials for Photoshop”

    NaldzGraphics September 9th, 2008

    great list of tutorials.thanks for collecting it.keep it up:)

    Andrew Houle September 9th, 2008

    I love these icon tuts, thanks for the list!

    arthack September 9th, 2008

    Really, I had the whole collection

    wellmedicated September 9th, 2008

    I’m always so amazed at how versatile Photoshop can be.

    This is a great list. Thank you very much.

    Bernhard September 9th, 2008

    Nearly each week look in I here and read with large interest the interesting and always well written contributions. Today I would like to leave gladly to a greeting from Thuringia in Germany!

    Tabris Chen September 9th, 2008

    It’s amazing how much effort is required to make something so small looks good

    Diabetic September 10th, 2008

    Wow…thanks for the info. I am learning photoshop now so this will be a great help for me.

    Left Hand Drive Cars September 11th, 2008

    I love these icon tuts, thanks for the list!

    Dainis Graveris September 11th, 2008

    Awesome list here. Just curious why to design icons in PhotoShop? Not vector graphic?

    Vandelay Design September 11th, 2008

    Dainis,
    If I spent much time designing icons I would probably use Illustrator. I can’t speak for others, but my guess is that many people are just more skilled and more comfortable with Photoshop.

    Dainis Graveris September 13th, 2008

    Actually that could be right, if I think a bit, then I agree – PS just now is standard application where everybody starts first steps in design.

    Danh ba web 2.0 September 14th, 2008

    Great list ! Thanks you very much

    projectgrfix September 20th, 2008

    You made my day! really I wanted to see how these glossy icons are made. Thanks for the tuts!!

    skins for bebo October 19th, 2008

    very impressed witht this list. thanks once again.

    system errors October 30th, 2008

    I’m always so amazed at how versatile Photoshop can be.

    This is a great list. Thank you very much.

    Seinfeld Episode February 5th, 2009

    Awesome, I’ve just recently acquired Photoshop so these will be very helpful ^^.
    Also, love the whole ‘vandelay’ thing =P.. go Seinfeld!

    -Aidan.

    Samsungers March 7th, 2009

    I am always searching for online resources that can help me. Thank you!

    Serren March 18th, 2009

    Every time i come here I am not dissapointed, nice post

    Katalogverzeichnis April 22nd, 2009

    Very impressed witht this list;-)

    Folienschweißgerät April 28th, 2009

    Thanks for all information

    dropped shadow June 19th, 2009

    Check this one out

    http://bevelandemboss.net/free-psd-sources/free-icons-psd-source

    You can download a fully editable PSD with a set of icons, that shows how these icons are made…

    Tarik July 15th, 2009

    Hey, thank you for the brilliant tutorial. It helped me improving my skills very much. It’s at all times gorgeous to get some motivating inspiration and I hope to find more of such posts here in future because nobody will ever stop learning new things. Props

    Darmowy hosting September 29th, 2009

    Wow, These icons are awesome!

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