In this tutorial we will learn how to design a logo of a company that sells pears!  Looks like they are getting pretty high tech these days.

Note: As a General rule every step should have a new layer.

Our Final Result of this Photoshop Tutorial, Click to View Large

Step 1
Create a new document with the following properties:

Width: 1000 pixels
Height: 800 pixels
Background Color: #b1f6ad

Step 2
Now use the Ellipse Tool (m) and make a selection like below, fill that selection with black:

Create a Circular Selection and fill it with black Tip: Press Shift to make a perfect Circle Selection

Step 3
Follow the same procedure but this time create a smaller ellipse near the top of the other circle and slightly to the left. Also fill it with black.

Add another Smaller Circle

Step 4

With both of your circle layers selected press ctrl+t (transform) and then while altering the top left vertex press ctrl+alt which allows you to skew only one side of the pear that is taking shape, move the mouse to the left until it looks like below:

Press Ctrl T and the Press Ctrl Alt to Skew only one angle of the Pear

Step 5
Now Press Ctrl+e to merge the topmost Circle with the Bottom Circle Layer

Make sure Both Circle Layers are merged

Then ctrl+click on the Layer Thumbnail this will generate a selection of your pair logo, go to Select > Modify > Contract and Contract the Selection by 10 pixels Fill that selection with white to come out with the following:

Add in a Middle White Area, kind of like an Oreo Pear

Step 6
Do the same thing as last step except for this time Only Contract by 5 pixels Fill this selection with #31e727 To come out with:

Fill the inner middle area with #31e727

Step 7
The next few steps might be a little confusing but here goes:

ctrl+click the layer thumbnail of the “Green” part of the Pear
Pull out the Elliptical Marquee and Press Alt to do a Substraction Selection and Un-Select the Top Half of your pear
Press Ctrl + Shift + I to invert your selection
Fill the inverted Selection with White

You should come up with something like below, if you find the steps above hard to follow let me know, I might make a video tutorial of this one. but basically you have to make a selection like below: (doesn’t need to be exact) Press ctrl+alt+g while the white layer is selected to mask it to the “Green” Pair Layer.

Do your Best to get this kind of a selection and fill it with White

Step 8
Now you need to change that White Area to a Gradient of White to Transparent you can do this by duplicating the white layer, and then ctrl+clicking the thumbnail to make a selection of that layer, then fill it with a white to transparent gradient with a angle to the left, set the layer mode to “overlay” you should come out with below:

Make a Gradient of White to Transparent, set the Layer Mode to "Overlay"

Step 9
Now you need to add the following Inner Shadow to your “Green” Layer

Apply these Innser Shadow Styles to your Green Layer

Step 10
Add a bunch of similar “Pear Spots” to the top left of your pear, fill them with #23a71c and then Set their Layer Opacity to 60% to come out with:

Add a couple of Spots to the Photoshop, change layer opacity to 60%

Step 11
Use the Pen Tool to create a Stem Like Below:

Use the Pen Tool to create the Pears Stem

Step 12
And finally I added some text for the company, and some shadows around the edges:

Our Final Result of this Photoshop Tutorial, Click to View Large

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, let me know if you have any questions.

So what can we learn from designing a logo of a pear? Well you can learn how to design logos, and that designing logos of fruit is always a good idea! Look at Apple.

“Lt. Dan Invested in Some Fruit Company … Then we didn’t have to worry about money no more, and I said, Great! One less thing” – Forrest Gump

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Description

In this tutorial we will be creating a  nice looking and useful pixel

icon which can be used in any software application related to networks.

Objectives

In this tutorial we will be creating a cool icon for software

application.

• Learn how to draw a simple pixel drawing using pencil tool.
• Using gradient.
• Adding pixel shades.

Final Result:

Step 1:

Create a 35×35 pixel file. Create a new layer by pressing shift+control+n

together. Either use control+’+’ or zoom tool to zoom upto 1200%.

Step 2:

Set the foreground to black. Select 1 pixel wide pencil and draw this

shape.

Step 3:

Draw another shape under the box with the pencil.

Step 4:

Select Rectangular Marquee Tool and select inside the box

as shown in the figure.

Step 5:

Now, we will use Gradient Tool to fill the selection. For that, set the

foreground color to #245C29 and

background to
#316659. Click on  Gradient tool. Select

foreground to background gradient type and linear

gradient to fill the selection.

Image after filling the selection with gradient tool.

Step 6:

Draw 3 small lines with pencil tool. Change their colors as shown in the

figure.

Step 7:

Draw a line below the ‘Monitor’.

Step 8:

Draw another line as shown in the figure.

Actual view of our newly created drawing.

Step 9:

Duplicate and place the first layer as shown in the figure.

Step 10:

Zoom upto 700% and draw three black color lines connecting the monitors.

Now view the actual size of the file. Our icon is ready

Step 1:

First create a new Photoshop document 16×16 pixels in size:

Step 2:

First pull out the pencil tool (you’ll be using this alot) and set your foreground color to: #7C7C7C, Zoom in as far as you can zoom in and use the pencil tool to draw out an image like below:

Step 3:

Next set your foreground color to white and fill in the areas where the paper would be **BE SURE TO TURN OFF ANTI-ALIASED IN THE TOP RIGHT OF PHOTOSHOP

Step 4:

Now pull out your pencil tool again and set your foreground color to #C2C2C2 and draw a shape like below:

Step 5:(optional but recommended)

Zoom out sit back relax and enjoy the results of your work so far (*^_^*)

Step 6:

Now create a new layer and with the pencil tool and foreground color set too #242424 draw out a rectangle like below:

Step 7:

Create another layer and use the pencil tool to fill in the area inside of the upper left rectangle with #3E9FE0

Step 8:

Now apply the following Gradient Overlay to the layer.

Click on the Gradient to bring next option up

Which should produce:

Step 9:

Now you need to insert the text ‘PS’ for Photoshop, use a System font like System, or MS Sans-serif, set the font to really small and the Anti-Aliasing of text to ‘None’ Type in PS (believe me, it says PS down there). If you can’t find a font that works then just draw out the white shapes with the pencil tool.

You should have the following so far:

Step 10:

Last thing to do is insert the Photoshop Feather, download the feather below by right clicking and selecting ‘Save Picture As’, save it to your hard drive then open it in photoshop:

Copy the image and paste it into your icon on a layer directly under the layer with the ‘PS’ box on it, but above the paper part in the backgroud,go to Edit > Transform (ctrl+t) so that you can resize the feather to a size that fits inside of the paper:

And walla your done:

But don’t stop there! Use your newfound pixel skills to do other cool stuff

In this tutorial we will be covering the Basics of Icon creation by creating a ‘monitor’ icon like below. We will be using the Pen tool and be practicing a fairly common illistration technique for icon development.

First create a new document, I made mine 400 x 400 pixels with a white background. Next pull out the pen tool , and then configure your brush tool to be 3 pixels wide. (make sure you configure the brush tool like below) Also be sure to create a new layer over the background layer.

Next with the pen tool

create a shape like below. Note that I am zoomed in, in this picture.

Now right click in the area and select stroke path (pictured above), when the dialouge box comes up choose the following options.

Press ok, then right click and choose Delete Path you should come out with the following:

Next you will need to use the pen tool again and create lines like the following image

Now this part will probably

be the hardest part so you may mess up a few times but keep at it until you get a good curve. With the pen tool, and on the same layer make a path like below (to do curves when you click the second time, drag the mouse around to configure the curve.

Stroke the path again and zoom out to make sure it looks right, do the same thing to the other side of the computer monitor.

Now make two lines like below.

Now you need to make the curve for the stand, make it look like below

You are now completed with the outline of the computer!

Proceed to the next page to see how to color it

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In this tutorial we are going to be creating a re-creation of the Windows Live Icon like below:

Create a new Photoshop document 25×19 pixels in size, fill the background with #0D8DEA

Create a new layer and set your foreground color to #89D177, Zoom in all the way (1600%) and use the circular marquee tool to make a selection like below And use the paintbucket tool to fill it with your foreground color, you might have to click twice to make the color more ‘solid’

Now your going to do about the same thing again, make a selection like below and fill it with the color #89D177.

Now pull out the rectangular marquee tool, make a selection like below and fill it with the same green color

Next select your ‘head’ layer and apply the following to layer styles to it.

Right click on the head layer, select ‘Copy layer style’ then right click on the body layer and select ‘paste layer style’

That should produce:

Now for the arms, create a new layer that is above both your head and your body layer, Zoom back in and set your foreground color to #397829 pull out the pencil tool with the width set to 1 pixel and draw three pixels like below on the bottom left hand side of the icon.

Now draw two vertical lines like below, the colors are also specified in the image

Press ctrl+j to duplicate the arm layer, then go to Edit > Transfrom > Flip horizantal, then use the move tool to move the icon to the right hand side of the icon.

That’s it for this tutorial I hope you liked it, if you have any questions or you enjoyed the tutorial be sure to join our community photoshop forum

Step 1:

To begin, first create an image 150×80 pixels:

Step 2:

Use the paintbucket tool to fill the background with with: #5B5B5B

Step 3:

create a new layer andUse the Rectangular marquee to make a selection like below and fill it with: #485337

Step 4:

Now apply the following Layer Styles to the layer:

You should come out with

Step 5:

Now create a new layer you should have 3 by now, use the rectangular marquee tool to make a selection like below and fill it with #757957.

Step 6:

Now pull out the Burn Tool , it is in the same place as a the dodge tool, just click and hold down on the dodge tool to pull out multiple tools, make sure that the Exposure is set to 50%, and draw out a line like below.

Step 7:

Create a new layer and make a selection for the top of the header to the top of the layer you just made. Fill it with #898C66

Step 8:
Pull out the pencil tool and at the very bottom of the selection you just made, draw a line with the color #9EA175

Step 9:

Now pull out the Dodge Tool (O) and draw a line

like below (be sure the dodge tool is set to highlights and opacity of 50%) you may have to draw the line back and forth a few times. Next pull out the pencil tool once again and draw a black line at the top of the header, and with the dodge tool set at 1 pixel, draw a line right underneath it. It should look like below.

Step 10:

Now pull out the brush tool set the foreground color to #1E2213, set the pixel width to 1 pixel, and draw a shape like below (press shift to draw perfectly straight lines and angles).

Step 11:

Now you need to apply the following layer style settings to the layer, a Dropshadow and a Bevel and Emboss:

That should produce:

Step 12:

Press ctrl+j to duplicate the layer and use the Move Tool (v) to move it to the right hand side so you have two vent like items.

Step 13:

Use the polygonal lasso too to make a selection like below:

Step 14:

Now go to Select > Modify > Smooth and set the Sample Radius to 5 press ok, and it will smooth the selection to have rounded corners fill that selection with black.

Step 15:

Duplicate that layer with ctrl+j, then with the duplicated layer selected go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal use the move tool (v) to move the layer to the far right (just above the right vent:

Step 16:

Next use the marquee tool to fill in the middle section with black like below:

Step 17:

Now apply the following Layer Style Settings to the layer

Click on the Gradient to pull up the next window

That should produce:

Step 17:

ctrl+click on the layer you were just working on and create a new layer, go to Select > Modify > Contract and contract it by about 10 pixels, fill that selection with black.

Step 18:

Now apply the following Layer Style settings to that layer

Which should produce

Step 19 (optional):

Create a new layer and press ctrl+g (ctrl+alt+g for cs2) to have that layer mask the layer under it, with the polygonal lasso tool make a selection like below, then pull out the gradient tool, and set the colors white to transparent, and draw a gradient from the top left to the bottom right, which should produce:

Step 20:

Now all that is left is to add in some text, use whatever font you want and apply the following settings to it, I set the color of the font to #FFE500.

And you should get

Duplicate all of the layers that contain a buttom element on them and you can make multiple buttons like below

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

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