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Alright, how many of you have ever seen an icon that looks really nice before? Ok, we all have. Today, I'm going to show you one technique on how to make nice icons out of shapes already in Photoshop. Let's go... First, select your shape. For this tutorial, we are going to use the paintbrush shape. Make a new document 400px by 400px. Make a new layer. Now, click the custom shape tool (right click on the Shape Tool to bring up the drop down menu.) It's the menu item that's in the middle red circle.
Go up to the top, and make sure you have the middle box clicked (top red circle). This will make a path, and not fill it in. Then in your Shape drop down menu, choose the Paintbrush (bottom red circle). Click and drag while holding the Shift key to make your shape. Make it basically as big as the whole document. Once you have it drawn, Right click, and hit Make Selection. Hit OK. Now we have a selection we can work with. Until we've filled in the entire shape, make sure to keep your selection! Choose a dark brown color, and using a small round brush tool, fill in the top part of the shape. Stop when you get to this part:
Choose a grey to fill in the next rectangle part, and once you have that filled in, choose a light yellow/tan color, to fill in the actual brush. It should look like this once done.
Now grab the Pen tool, and on the brush, make a wavy line that follows the contour of the brush, like this. Now you can deselect the pen selection.
Make a new layer. Set the layer opacity to 70%, and the blend mode to Soft Light. Go back to your brush tool. Make it a 2 or 3 pixel round hard brush. Make sure your foreground color is black. Now grab the pen tool again, Right Click, and hit Stroke. Make sure the Tool is set to brush. Hit OK. Do this 3 or 4 more times, or however many you want to get the individual bristle effect. This is what I have so far.
Ok, now the shape is done. Time to start adding the finishing touches. Make a new layer. Click on the original brush layer, go to Select, then Load Selection. This will give us the pen selection again.
Ok, go back to the brush tool. Choose a 10px or so hard round brush, and set your foreground color to red. Now brush on some paint at the tip. Here is what I got.
Ok, we're now going to add some reflections. Grab a 3px soft round brush, and set your foreground color to white. Make a new layer, and then paint in some reflections on the paint, and the metal casing, like this.
Ok, one more step: Shading. Make sure you still have the pen layer selection. Make a new layer, and grab a big brush, 20px or so. Make your foreground color black. Now brush a few thick lines across the bottom length of the wood handle.
Then go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur. Choose a radius that you think, that provides a decent shading amount. Then set your foreground color to white, and repeat along the top edge. And your done! You now have an awesome brush illustration, that can be used many many ways. Here is the final, and what it would look like as an icon.
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