22 Extremely Well Written Icon Design Tutorials
In the past, I’ve shown you free icon sets that are great for web applications, as well as icons that are highly detailed. Even with all the free icons available, you won’t always be able to find ones that fit every need. That’s why it’s a good idea to develop skills that will allow you to create your own. In this post there are 22 well written tutorials that will teach you techniques for designing your own icons using various tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop.
Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop
Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop
iTune Icon
The Making of an Icon
Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon
How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon
How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator
How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon
Vista Error Icon
How to Create a Transparent Battery Icon
How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon
3d Isometric Vector Icon Tutorial
Beginner Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Vector RSS Icon
Design a Glossy Download Icon
Create a Detailed Camera with Photo Icon
Craft a Delicious Chinese Food Icon
Create an Adobe Box Icon in Photoshop
Create a Custom Mac OSX Style Ring Binder Address Book Icon
Create An Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon
Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop
Create a Vector Film Slate Icon
Custom Hard Drive Icon
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23 comments
Mickie
June 1, 2009I constantly struggle with my avatar for various websites. I really want to design my own, but I have needed to resort to Microsoft clip art. Thanks for the information. Now maybe I can find my own expression.
ilike2flash
June 1, 2009Nice lcon designs.
Michael Soriano
June 1, 2009Very good list.
Patternhead
June 1, 2009Nice post. Some highly polished icons here.
MacStories
June 1, 2009Good links, great icons. Thanks!
T-Law
June 1, 2009Beautiful icons, thanks for great collection.
Danh ba web 2.0
June 1, 2009Excellent collection. Thanks a lot !
See more in my blog: http://tr.im/n7tj
Johnson Koh
June 2, 2009Great compilation. These icons are very detailed.
Kre8iveminds
June 2, 2009Amazing tutorials. Thanks
Jackey
June 2, 2009Nice post. Thanks. Knowledge is always the big ocean .
Michael Flarup
June 2, 2009Thanks for featuring my article, ‘The Making of an Icon’- unfortunatly the link doesn’t go to my site, but eyesontutorials who is remote hosting my article.
Orginal article can be found here: http://pixelresort.com/?p=6
Thanks,
Michael Flarup
NICEOUTPUT
June 2, 2009Great list here. Amazing. Thanks for sharing
mike sch.
June 2, 2009Nice collection of tuts – thx a lot for sharing.
Web Design Sarasota
June 2, 2009Wow, great resources. I specifically like the military hat, very clean design and enjoyed the use of shading.
tesha
June 2, 2009wow! thanks so much for sharing these great tutorials… Looking forward to more articles similar to this one!
bebopdesigner
June 2, 2009Many many thanks. This is really handy.Cheers
Fredrk
June 2, 2009OMG! I just LOVED this!!!
tasarhane
June 17, 2009pretty helpful post thanks.
Thomas
July 6, 2009Thanks, I love the Chinese Food Icon
icon rocks
July 29, 2009great collection! useful
Anush
August 11, 2009Great icons suggestion!! i like pencil one
Benchong
December 23, 2009lowsy artworks
jochen
January 6, 2010nice, but most of them aren’t icons really. Why can’t even well educated designers distinguish between icons and illustrations?