Create a Shiny Psdtuts+ Folder Icon in Photoshop “Icon design is an essential element in any designer’s tool chest. No matter how simple or how complex your design is, a nice looking icon will almost always help to spruce things up. In this Photoshop tutorial we will demonstrate some easy steps to help you to produce your own shiny Psdtuts+ icon in Photoshop. These steps can be easily modified to produce a family of icons for your website.”

If you're looking to develop your Illustrator skills, here's a tutorial for you! Follow this walkthrough to see the how adding layer after layer of vector shapes, along with a range of gradients and a spot of texture can quickly create a great looking icon-style clock graphic. The main ingredient we'll be adding to this [...]

The file of the day is Professional Alluring Jewelry Icon Set by antialiasfactory. “State-Of- Art quality Icons, Enough to make your business shine like a diamond.. Suitable for Designers, bussiness owners and common users. Definitely easy to work with and available at THREE most wanted sizes in icon world: 256 – 128 – 64 and Created, manipulated, texturized and retouched by Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and Adobe Illustrator® CS4 . These tempting styles are taking advatntage of Yet-most-powerful Digital image format; ...

This detailed tutorial by Vaclav Krejci shows you how to create symbols in Illustrator and convert them to a symbol font. “Icons are inseparable part of a GUI (graphical user interfaces) design. I was downloading, buying and creating icons for ages, then one day I decided to make my own usable icon set. Something to help other GUI designers make work faster and better. This article explains in detail the process of creating and phases I was going through with ...

The Internet world exploded with the news of the Apple tablet launch last week. Named the iPad, it's set to bring yet another revolution to the way people access and browse the web. An iPad icon would be a sensible addition to any web designer's resources toolbox, so let's fire up Photoshop and create our [...]

This Photoshop tut by Asher Abbasi contains many techniques which beginners would be unaware of. It includes the least steps with the best possible results. “In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts. Let’s dive in…” (via How to Create a ...

Build your own war game with Weapon Icons and Trophies! This is our file of the day. Weapon icons and trophies for military ranks - Icons - GraphicRiver

Learn how to create a simple three-dimensional icon of a paint bucket, complete with paint splotches, with this colorful tutorial. Harnessing the power of paths, layer effects and consistent lighting we’ll obtain an effective, shiny icon. (via How to Create a Shiny Paint Bucket Icon | Psdtuts+)

Nifty! I find these very Nintendo-esque: Emotion Icons Set - Icons - GraphicRiver