Create a slick glowing button in Photoshop

Every designer, whether he is a beginner or a professional will someday, in his career create icons for his client or his portfolio. Creating icons can be extremely fun, provided you do it the right way. Most importantly, you should learn the basic principles of icon design first, the importance and functions of icons on web sites and in user interfaces. This might take a long time but trust me, its the right way. You should also learn how to use... Read More

Free Icons : Gold embedded Leather Social Icon Set

After blogging for nearly three months, I have been able to elevate this design blog to a whole new level. I give all the credit to you guys for constantly supporting me and voting for the articles. Sharing and promoting my articles has immensely helped me to increase the popularity of the blog. I will try my best to continually provide valuable content from the world of design. Having said that, I do not want to make this like many other blogs... Read More

Create an awesome leather studded icon in Photoshop + Free PSD

In this tutorial, we’ll go through simple, easy and effective steps for creating a nice leather studded social bookmark icon. There’s a light use of the Pen Tool in the tutorial, but most of it uses Selection Tools and shape tools to create this icon. The idea of writing this tutorial is to make sure that you’ll get familiar with some useful techniques which are otherwise not used. The inspiration for this icon came from the navigation bar... Read More

45 of the best High Quality PSD Files from Deviantart

We have learnt so much from the thousands of tutorials in Photoshop from many deign blogs out there. It is always a great thing to experiment and keep trying newer effects and manipulating images and stuff. This way, you can learn a lot and also create new styles transforming some realy boring effects to quite exquisite designs. I have been searching for some of the best resources in the most reliable places possible and have collected 45 of the... Read More

Create a crumbled paper effect in Photoshop + PSD

I was searching for some icons for inspiration to write a tutorial and I stumbled upon an awesome set of icons which really perked me up. I noticed a subtle look in those icons and starting to create them using Photoshop. I know that creating icons in Illustrator is more professional than trying them out in Photoshop but since I’m still new to Illustrator, and Photoshop is not that bad in vector graphics, I decided to create them in Photoshop. In... Read More

Awesome Page Peel glossy icons (64px and 128px pack)

Webdesign blogs have been improving drastically over the months. We saw a lot of changes. Some of the blogs did a complete makeover with a new theme while others repainted the background for a more detailed look. However, the use of icons for social networking has never been disappointing. People are always wanting for more of these stuff. So, I decided to create some awesome icon pack just for you guys. This version of the icons gives out a page... Read More