How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon. The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let’s have some fun with this. Step 1 Create a New Document 950 pixels wide by 600 pixels heigh, set the Resolution to 300 pixels/inch, and the Background to white. Step 2 Drag and snap guides to all edges and vertical center of the selection.
Step 3 Open the gradient picker and select the "Steel Bar" preset from the drop down menu. Step 4 To make our pencil more reflective go to Image > Adjustments > Curves (Command + M), and adjust it as in the below image. Step 5 With the selection still active, create a new layer and fill the selection with the color #d60005, then set the layer Opacity to 60%. Step 6 Right click the "Body" layer and duplicate it. Step 7 Select the Elliptical Marque tool and make a selection from point 1 in the image while holding down the Alt and Shift keys.
71+ Free PSD Resources. As I promised yesterday, here is new biggest post that I’ve ever written. Whether you’re just trying to learn Photoshop, or you need some quality elements to use in your latest designs, free PSD resources can be a real timesaver. Today, we have a list of 71+ free Photoshop resources for designers. There are some great stock images here, and some layered PSD files that are just perfect for designers to learn how high quality resources are made.
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