Steel and glass icon tutorial

Hi, first of all, this tutorial is very long so you’ll have to be patient before the end. Now let’s start!

1. Create a new document, which size is 128×128 pixels, and with a transparent background.

2. Use the elliptical marquee tool to draw a round selection in the center of the canvas.

TIP: holding Shift while you’re drawing the selection will make a perfect circle.

3. Fill the selection with black and deselect by pressing Ctrl+D. Then, dupliacte “Layer 1″ twice so that you see 3 layers.

4.Make the “Layer 1 copy” and “Layer 1 copy 2″ layer become invisible by clicking on the little eye next to their thumbnails, and select “Layer 1″.

5. Then enter the following settings, after double-clicking on the layer’s thumbnail :

6. Now, re-click on the little eye next to the “Layer 1 copy” layer’s thumbnail, and select this layer.

7. Then enter the following settings, after double-clicking on the layer’ thumbnail :

8. Make the “Layer 1 copy 2″ layer become visible by clicking on its little eye, and select it

9. Enter these setting in the layer style window :

10. Then select the custom shape tool, as shown on the image bellow.

11. Now select the cat print shape.

12. Draw this shape, then rasterize the layer, as shown bellow :

13. The enter the following settings in the layer style window :

It was long but the result is not bad, is it ?

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