Photoshop CS2
Saturday, May 12, 2007 by mitchd2100 | Discussion: Icons
Is there any tutorials to create icons with photoshop instead of coreldraw which I cant afford at the moment. I am looking forward to contributing to this site and would like to work with what I have at the moment, any help would be appreciated???
Noiram
Reply #2 Monday, May 14, 2007 12:46 AM
Reply #2 Monday, May 14, 2007 12:46 AM
Sorry Corky_O, I'm not trying to be rude or prevent any sales but Photoshop cs2 will make and save your files as icons or png. Thankyou Corky_O, on my way to those links 
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Reply #1 Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:04 PM
Although the 'orb' is often used, here is a basic tutorial that WStaylor did some time ago http://wstaylor.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=60014
For Photoshop, you will use the layer styles for defining shadows and highlighting, instead of the mesh tools used in CorelDRAW. You can still use the pen tool to create your shape(s) > rasterize the shape(s) > use the layer styles to create the 3D effects. You might want to experiment by trying to translate the creation of say a folder in a CorelDRAW tutorial to the tool set in Photoshop.
SKoriginals did a tutorial on the Photoshop pen tool here https://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?view=1&catid154&search=Pen%20tool
In all cases, you will then need an icon program such as IconDeveloper (by Stardock), or IconWorkshop (by Axialis) to turn your file into an icon.