jpeg, photoshop will ‘helpfully’ refill that background for you with white again. now click ‘file’ > ‘save as’ - and make sure to save your finished icon as a. …so you get the ‘checkerboard’ effect behind it. saving your icon… we don’t want it to be sitting in a huge white square, no? so make sure to turn OFF your background layer… ( by closing the little ‘eye’ next to the layer thumbnail ) Select the width of your border in px, choose a colour, even play with the opacity a little if you like…ĥ. –if you have a lot of black, like the above image, it’s a good idea to add in a 1-2 pixel ‘stroke’ ( outline ) on your original shape layer in a different colour - maybe grey or white to contrast… this will outline your shape for you while keeping the transparent background… double click on your shape layer, then click on ‘stroke if not - right click and select the ‘create clipping mask’ option again on any new layers. NB/ extra layers should be attached to the ‘clipping mask’ ( the little downward pointing arrow to the left of your layer thumbnail ) - if you just add them one on top of another, they should attach automatically. from here, you can do a little repositioning of your screencap layer, add any extra layers or psd’s you might like to use, textures etc. Now, to make your icon appear only within the shape, right click on your screencap layer and select the option ‘create clipping mask’.Ĥ. next select the screencap or image to use - credit to homeofthenutty for the screencaps used for this tutorial.Ĭopy and paste your screencap over your basic shape and resize it - ish… then just drew my basic shape as black on a white canvas ģ. I downloaded and installed the ‘halloween shapes’ set from this post on deviantart. csh file to load them into the menu.įor this example i’ll recreate the ‘dean handprint’ icon. or click the very small arrow in the shape menu in photoshop and choose ‘load shapes’ once you have your custom shape file downloaded, ( usually in a zip file ) just unzip it and double click on the. i would also recommend heading over to deviantart and searching for ‘shapes’ or ‘photoshop shapes’ in ‘resources and stock images’. To install more custom shapes you can just google ‘photoshop shapes’ to find a huge range of free downloads. Photoshop pre-installed shapes are not tremendously varied, but you can upload any amount of new shapes to this menu. Now click on the drop down arrow next to the word ‘Shape’ (the white box) - this is where we will select the shape for our icon. click on it and then take a peek at the menu at the top of your screen - you should see a toolbar that looks like this. if you click on the rectangle you will see something that looks like a ‘blob’. most often the rectangle tool is used to create borders etc. you can stick to the basic shapes if you like, but photoshop also has a ‘custom shape’ tool. this is because the ‘shape’ will undoubtedly cut out some of your image, so - depending on your chosen shape - a little larger can help.Ģ. start with a basic canvas, for shaped icons you may wish to make them slightly larger than the standard 100x100 pixels - the ones in the example image are 120x120 pixels. M E T H O D - using photoshop custom shapes and a simple clipping mask.ġ. Making icons from photoshop custom shapes ( tutorial uses CS5 )
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