Hello, everyone.
And this story, you will learn how to draw an icon inside Photoshop.
And we will try to draw two types of icon here.
We will use any of those examples.
Pick up this one and this one, right?
And OK, let's start.
First of all, we need to start in your file.
If you have chosen a preset before, you can choose one of those if you want to start a new one.
You can just type the dimensions here in this place.
I will start with, let's say it, pixels three three three three five three three three three and the
resolution is three hundred.
OK, create.
Now we have in your file, it's called untitled one.
I can't go back here or I can just go to a file that I'm putting this document and drag it through the
Photoshop and drop it by releasing the left click button.
Put it here.
Now you will see those controllers, you can change, rotate and extend this shape.
Or you can just place it by pressing inside or just placing pressing this move to here.
Press presenter.
Now our shape has been placed in in the document in a new layout called first.
This first is named after the name of the document itself.
First.
That's OK.
Now let me scroll down using out and the the wheel on the mouse.
But this one?
OK, now I want to draw this one, so I will start by enlarging this document.
Or let's say that I will.
I will just take this and make it copy.
And hide this one selected by control, click and hide it from here, from this eye.
I don't need it now.
I can also select this again by controlling left click control team to show the controllers here and
enlarge on the icon that I want to control I can keep.
It's much more larger.
As you can see, those pixels appear because Photoshop is based on pixels and press the more tool or
info.
Now this is a little bit larger than before.
What I will use here is the Circle tool, so I'll go from here and choose Ellipse tool to specify the
place.
Exactly.
I can use those rollers if you can.
If you if you don't see them, you can just press control are to hide or to show the ruler here regarding
the measurement here or the unit is being used here in this place.
You can right click and change the unit that you're comfortable with.
So in our case, we might use pixel.
We didn't need actually to know what's the dimensions here, as long as I need just to put some sort
of guides or guidelines that will help me to control my shape.
So to create those guidelines.
Click on the ruler here and drag.
You will see this line.
Put it in any way in any place that you want to to place on your canvas.
Same here.
I'll do the same in this place.
I can also do the same thing from here and the same thing from, you know, I've created some sort of
guidelines.
Those guidelines cannot be shown when you print or when you export your final document.
Also, you can't hide it if you don't need it any more by going to window.
So we'll then go to extra.
You can just uncheck this extra and you will not see them anymore.
If you want to show them again, go to view and click extras or adjust font edge.
Now we have selected the shape tool.
Shape will be created in a new layer, so I will create from here.
So this is a way that allows me to create the shape on these on guidelines that I have created.
I have also another way to create a perfect circle.
Once I finished drawing, I just press on the tool.
Now I have a perfect circle, the same size if I want to create the circle as we learned before.
Just click on any place and press shift, key pressing shift and move the mouse left and right.
In this way, you guarantee that if you create a perfect circle.
OK.
All right.
And as you will notice, it has been created in a new layer.
OK, I don't need this circle, so I won't remove it and I need this one.
Now I want to draw the shape.
I have many ways actually to draw the shape, but the best way to draw any shape, actually, whether
this shape, this shape or any any kind of shapes is to use the pencil, as we have learned before.
So the pen tool will create the shape based on the properties that I will sit here in this place.
So I want a white shape and I don't want any stroke around the shape itself.
So I will make the stroke transparent without any color, and I will choose the full color to be white.
If the color is not here or not from those groups, just to go to this place and pick the color from
outside or choose it from here.
OK.
We have changed.
As you can see, we have changed the color of the circle itself by mistake.
You can just go back to the normal color by pressing controls.
Click here.
Click on the pencil again.
Make sure you create new layer so that we don't fall in the same mistake that we have done and change
the color to be white.
It's a recently used color.
It's here.
Know?
Scroll down.
Press out and scroll down here and start throwing a start from this point.
Then now I'm releasing the mouse, then go here and click on either one.
Click here.
Also click here and click here.
If you want to create a story 90 degrees line, you just press shift.
And if you will notice now the mouse is here.
But when I clicked, it has been created on a on a 90 degree angle.
So if you want to do that, you have the option to do that if you want to keep it free without having
any restricted angle.
You can just throw it using your own,
whatever it is.
Click here.
Now I want to create some sort of circular shape, so I have many options on whether to scroll down
a little bit and three core circle and do the same here.
OK.
How I have done this, if you will notice we always do it like this before, but how I have done this
curvature, it's very easy just to click, keep clicking and drag the mouse left and right until you
see this controller that extends to the left and the right.
If I want it to be extended on on a zero degree angle.
Press shift the same way that we have created to the 90 degree angle.
Press shift the keep pressing shift I'm now keep.
I'm now keeping pressing shift.
Release the mouse.
Now this circle has been created.
Half circle so sorry has been created.
And click here.
It will create a curve if if you're not comfortable with this curve, see it's a little bit to two inside.
I don't want it to be two two inside, so I press control until the mouse has is being changed to this
cursor, the white cursor, not the pencil cursor and white cursor, and keep clicking and move it a
little bit.
To the right or to the left, and in a way that you will feel it can be better and you will notice that
the movement is based on the pixels that we have.
This is why it's important to to know on which resolution you work.
OK, now click here and click here to create a semicircle in this place like this.
If you need to.
If you don't need that, sign here and click a semi curved displays and finally click here.
You will notice there is a small circle appeared next to the pencil.
That means you will close your shape.
Click here and now you have a closed shape.
Press the tool and we have created a shape in an independent layer.
It's very important to practice renaming players, so make your work organized.
So I would call it.
And that's much better.
Now how to create this shape?
I have also many ways, whether I use the same way that I have used here, which is using the pen tool,
or I just create a stroke around this shape and draw a circle and put it back to the finger itself.
How to do this, I will tell you.
So first of all, I need to put a stroke around how to do that.
Make sure you are choosing the the layer that you're in.
Make sure it's a shape already, as we have created.
Go back to the shape tools and you can see the properties for the shape that you have chosen.
The fill color is white and there is no stroke.
So from here you can choose a color stroke for shape and you will.
You will notice that a stroke has been created around the shape.
How to change the color.
Easy.
Just click here on the palette and you will see this drop tool.
It allows you to pick colors from any shape, from any space on your document.
So click here.
The color has been picked now.
OK.
Oh, so you have many options about the direction of the stroke itself.
From here, you can notice the alignment whether if you want to, if you want it to be inside or in
the middle or outside the shape itself.
The cap also, you look, you can change it to be around the cap and the cap or angular cap.
Same with the corner.
Also, though, the way the line is being drawn, you can't change it from here.
The thickness of the of the stroke itself can be changed.
Also here.
So I have a shape with a stroke in the same color here.
Now I will draw a circle in a new left, go here and press shift circle.
I think this this is perfect and press, OK, here.
Go back here and choose this one.
OK, now I can see it puts it here and drag it to be below the hand.
And now we have created something similar to what we have here.
You can choose the same shape here in this place and increase the size of the stroke for Let's Let It
Be, for example.
Five.
Yeah, it's quite similar now to what we see now.
There is a cool thing about the layers.
Let's call this layer button
something like this, and I can type type those layers.
So when I move them or when I enlarge them, or when I do anything for both of them, it will be Typekit.
So no need to to choose, for example, the size for each one of them separately.
So how to do this, whether I group those layers together or I select both of them by pressing control
and click on this small chain here?
It's called link layers here and now.
When I choose any of those layers, it will drag the second layer with it automatically, so I will
put this shape here and click on the circle itself.
Change the color by double click here and pick the color from this place.
If you want to change anything.
For example, if you want to change the size of this finger and the hand itself pressed, select the
layer and control T, then enlarge using those controllers.
By the way, the size of the stroke will not change, so make sure that you change the size from here
once you finish enlarging the shape.
If I if I lose the shape to be like this, then press here.
It will be like this now.
Select the shapes I and make sure that you are in the in the correct layer and choose the size of the
stroke, for example, to be 10 pixels.
From here now, we have drawn this icons similar exactly to if we decided to draw any of those icons
here, OK?
For example, if I have chosen this one, it looks a little bit complex.
I will select it here and I will pick the pencil immediately.
It's white, no stroke, so I will just start by clicking here.
Keep clicking until you see those controllers.
Click here, keep clicking and can you see the controllers and you'll be able to create curves?
Click here again and you will get comfortable when you practice more when using the pencil.
It will be your favorite tool inside Photoshop.
We have finished creating this shape.
Now let's draw four circles.
Finish this one.
Create new layer and draw a circle here, here, here and here and create another circle.
I was copying those layers by pressing out and until you see the mouse is being changed into two arrows.
Now, in the copy mode, just drag the layer that you want to copy.
If you're finished, release out until you see the mouse going back to the normal case, which is the
motto if you want to delete all of them.
Press control, shift control to select more than one layer, you will notice that they have been selected
from here and now.
Press delete.
You have deleted all of it.
All right, so I will choose all of those things and put them all in one group.
I will call this group
dog food print.
Now, when I select any of those layers, all of them are in one group.
I can just change the color of this globe and I can create a stroke for the whole group and so on.
And instead of doing this for each shape, by selecting the shape, then going from the properties here
of the shapes for each shape, I can just adjust the colors and everything from the blending options.
How to go to the blending options right click on the groove itself or on any layer.
It also applies on layers blending options, and you can choose if you want to change the color color
overlay.
And here you have menu modes and select the color from this place.
Lets choose this color, for example, and so you can click here and click on talk itself and see the
properties.
You have two ways actually the pick button to apply the effect.
When you click on the name of the effect itself, you will see the properties OK, so click on stroke
and change the size from here.
Like this one?
This will change the color of its gradient color.
You can change it into one color only and I can then make it something like this or something like this.
It depends on how you want to change.
Also, you can clear out this opacity size if you want to be outside or.
Inside, you will use up a lot when when you practice on Photoshop, OK?
So if you're done, just click OK, and now you have finished creating those items.
And as an idea, you can see this.
This icon is that's that's shows that move itself.
Right click and choose the group.
This icon is field icon.
I can create a copy of the of the whole group and drag it here.
You can see the movement is on a straight line because I'm pressing shift, though, to the blending
options.
I can't choose, for example, the stroke and.
Make it small like this.
Change the color to be green and choose the color overlay to be any color, but make the opacity zero.
Now I have created an outline version of the same icon, as you can see here.
This is the field icon, and this is the outlined
version of the same icon.
OK, and you'll need this.
You will need to to use this move a lot, and you will know that there are many type of icons outlined
icons and feel the icons and so on, and field icons also inside circles, as well as what we have done
here in this place.
Thank you very much and see you in the next story.