Icons are essential component of an efficient as well as appealing website design. A proper utilization of icons will let you obtain an impressive and reliable website design appearance into your visitor’s eyes. Majority of the icons are in smaller sizes, very intricate and sometimes it is usually not easy to make the excellent ones. For you to uncover plenty of helpful and up-to-date methods to create sleek icon designs in Photoshop, we are showcasing right now some brilliant tutorials that are really worth reading.

Here are the 26 Photoshop Tutorials on How to Make Icons. These tutorials will help you a lot to fully grasp the expertise pertaining to designing awesome icons in Photoshop. If you are planning to make an eye-catching design for your website and content, then you better browse and try these tutorials.

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In this tutorial, you will go through the process of creating a Siri icon.

Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop

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This tutorial will show you how to design an icon for your mobile device’s home screen.

How to Create a Process Icon

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This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a process icon using layer styles, dodge and burn tool.

How To Draw a Vintage Polaroid Camera Icon

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In this tutorial, you will be using a lot of layer styles and draw manually with the brush tool to create a Polaroid camera icon.

How to Create a Location Map Icon in Photoshop

How to Create a Location Map Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a modern map with dropped pin icon.

Create a Futuristic Bicycle Icon in Photoshop

Create a Futuristic Bicycle Icon in Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to create a futuristic bicycle icon from scratch using some basic Photoshop tools.

Create an Evil 3D Monkey Icon in Photoshop

Create an Evil 3D Monkey Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will add texture and lighting to create a detailed 3D monkey icon using a photo of a toy monkey as a reference.

Create an Open Book Icon In Photoshop

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This tutorial will demontrate the techniques used to create an open book icon in Photoshop.

How To Design a Realistic Takeout Coffee Icon

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Create a Detailed Camera Icon in Photoshop

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This tutorial will demonstrate the techniques on how to create a download folder icon using different shapes and reflections in Photoshop.

Create a Star Trek Style Communicator in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, you will combine layer styles and lots of manual drawing to create a retro Star Trek style communicator, a voice communication device used in the original Star Trek series.

Industrial Folder Style Icon

Industrial Folder Style Icon
In this tutorial, you will learn the process of creating an industrial style folder icon.

Carbon Fibre Style Metallic Icon Design

Carbon Fibre Style Metallic Icon Design
In this tutorial, you will walk through the process of creating a metallic carbon fibre 3D icon.

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Learn To Create A Padlock Icon In Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn the step-by-step process on how to create a realistic padlock icon in adobe photoshop.

Create a Leatherback Book Icon in Photoshop

Create a Leatherback Book Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a book and apply textures and layer styles in order to create a leatherback book design in Photoshop.

Create a Mac Style Home Icon in Photoshop

Create a Mac Style Home Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn the techniques of making shape and playing with layer style to create a mac style home icon with Photoshop.

How to Draw a Shopping Bag Icon in Photoshop

How to Draw a Shopping Bag Icon in Photoshop
This tutorial will cover the basic techniques of drawing such as creating the shape, shading, and adding shadows to create a red shopping bag icon.

Draw a Realistic Steam Iron in Photoshop

Draw a Realistic Steam Iron in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create realistic shadows & highlights on plastic and metal to come up with a realistic Steam Iron.

Create a Diana Mini LOMO Camera Icon in Photoshop

Create a Diana Mini LOMO Camera Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn many drawing techniques such as creating a leather texture, adding reflection to glass, shading, and more to create a LOMO camera icon.

Radar Icon in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, you will learn the detailed steps on how to create a Mac style radar icon in Photoshop.

How To Draw Apple ICloud Icon

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This tutorial will teach you how to create an icloud icon.

Create an Elegant/Vintage Compass Icon in Photoshop

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Design a Detailed Audio Receiver Icon in Photoshop

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We do hope you have fun with those tutorials and find them very helpful. If you want to learn some other tutorials, just fill in the comment box below and tell us the topic you are interested in.

Ronald Bien

About the author: A Graphic Designer and the founder of Naldz Graphics. He launched Naldz Graphics to help the Design Community in providing quality design resources and tutorials.

12 comments

  1. very nice post, helps a lot for people who are newbies in photoshop! 🙂

  2. i always wanted to learn more about photoshop, thanks for this! >_<

  3. happy to visit your site, wew -_-‘ hopefully i can learn more about how to use photoshop.

  4. 3d effects in photoshop was the one i’ve been looking, thanks to this! X)

  5. I’d wanna try this: Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop 😉
    Thanks!

  6. I’ll try this one: How To Draw Apple ICloud Icon! thanks for posting!

  7. Time to keep myself busy learning these stuff! thanks for sharing you guys

  8. Hi, thanks for reviewing my tutorial.. home icon.. 🙂

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