Create a beautiful cartoon color pencil icon with PS-PS tutorial

This tutorial introduces how to use PS to create a beautiful cartoon color pencil icon. The tutorial is very good and worth learning. we recommend that you go to the footman's house, if you like it, come and learn it together. The above is how to use PS to create beautiful cartoon color pencil icons. The tutorial is very good and it is worth learning. we recommend you go to the feet Home. let's take a look!

Method/step

1. create a 500*500 white background. Click the foreground color. in the pop-up color picker dialog box, enter the color 01 dbcd and click OK. Click the paint bucket tool, and click the background to change the background color to the blue color.

Create a new layer, click "elliptical box selection tool", hold down Shift to draw a 360*360 positive circle, fill in the same color as the background, that is, 01 dbcd, stroke 3 pixels, name it "circle ". Right-click the circle, select stroke, enter 3 pixels in width, select white color, and click OK ". The circle with a white border is complete.

Create a new layer, use the rectangular box selection tool to draw a rectangle, fill in the black, click the menu [edit --- transform --- rotate], the input angle is 45 degrees. Adjust the size and position, and press Ctrl + D to cancel the selection. Name "shadow" in the layer ". Move the shadow to the circular edges, and change the opacity to 8%.

Create a new layer, continue to use Shift + elliptical box selection tool to draw a 250*250 circle, fill in white. Name it "small circle ".

Create a new layer, click "rectangular box selection tool", draw a slim rectangle, fill in gray, or number c2c8c8, create a layer Group, drag this layer into the layer Group, press Ctrl + J in the layer Group to copy multiple layers, select the layers in the layer Group, and use the arrow keys to adjust the upper and lower layers to the appropriate position. Then press Ctrl + E multiple times to merge the layers (I use PS8, which is a little different from other versions ). Name the merged layer "line", remove the line layer from the layer Group, and delete the Layer group.

Select the "line" layer, press Ctrl + the left mouse button to select "small circle", and then reselect and Delete unnecessary parts of the line. Then press Ctrl + D to cancel the selection.

Create a new layer, select "corner rectangle tool", draw a rectangle with a radius of 5 pixels and name it "pencil 1 ". Double-click pencil 1, open the layer style dialog box, select gradient superposition, select a linear style, the angle is 0, click the color block after the gradient, change to red, enter the numbers e4463d and d13d3b in the two color blocks, click "OK", and then click "OK ".

Press Ctrl + J to copy the pencil 1 layer and name the copied layer pencil 2. on the pencil 2 layer, hold down Alt and drag the rectangle tool to subtract a part. Double-click the icon next to the pencil 2 layer to open the layer style dialog box. select "gradient superposition" and change the gradient color to light blue. fill in the two color blocks e7f2e4 and d2d3d5 respectively, click "OK" and then "OK ".

Press Ctrl + J to copy the pencil 2 layer and name the copied layer pencil 3. on the pencil 3 layer, hold down Alt and drag the rectangle tool to subtract a part. Double-click the icon next to the pencil 3 layer to open the layer style dialog box, select "gradient superposition", change the gradient color to green, and add 6 adjacent color blocks in the middle, enter a0ce23, 89bc2f, 8dbe26, 8dbe26, 81ae20, and 749b28, click "OK", and then click "OK ".

Create a new layer, draw a triangle with a polygon tool, and name it "pencil 4 ". Double-click the layer style and select "gradient superposition". the angle is 0. click next to the gradient color block to open the gradient editor, adjust the color, and add two color blocks in the middle, fill in F6DA90 and e0cf73 respectively. Click "OK" and then "OK ".

Press Ctrl + J to copy the pencil 4 layer and name the copied layer pencil 5. on the pencil 5 layer, hold down Alt and drag the rectangle tool to subtract a part. Double-click the icon next to the pencil 5 layer to open the layer style dialog box. select "gradient superposition" and set the angle to-20. change the gradient color to black and add two color blocks in the middle, enter 695e4c and 2b2e25 respectively, click "OK", and then click "OK"

Create a new group, name it "pencil", put the pencil 1-5 into the group, copy one, name it "pencil copy", close the eyes of the pencil group, and select the "pencil copy" Layer group, press Ctrl + E to merge the five layers and change them into a pencil.

Select the selection tool. in the pencil copy layer, press Ctrl + T to adjust the pencil size, and then adjust it to the desired size. click edit --- change --- rotate in the menu to rotate the pencil 45 degrees, then press Enter.

Create a new layer named shadow. Use the rectangular box selection tool to draw a rectangle and fill it with black. Click edit> Change> twist to change the opacity to 20%.

Select a shadow, press Ctrl + the left mouse button, click the "circle" layer, click [select> Invert] in the menu, and then press Delete to Delete unnecessary parts of the shadow. Finally, save the image as JPEG. That's all. Place the small shadow under the pencil.

The above is how to create a beautiful cartoon color pencil icon with PS. let's take a look!