Final Preview

Before I start the tutorial, let’s see the final image of the social icons that we will design in this tutorial.

Step: 1

Create a new document of size 512 X 512px and transparent background.

Step: 2

Select “Rounded Rectangle Tool” with 15px radius.


Create a new layer and name it as “Face One”. Press and hold SHIFT button and draw a shape as shown below using color #9b9b9b

Step: 3

Make a duplicate layer of “Face One” layer and name duplicate layer as “Face Two”. Change color of Face Two shape to #3e3e3e Move Face Two shape equally little top and left as shown below.

Step: 4

Using CRTL button select both Face One and Face Two layers. Free transform the layers using CTRL + T or (Edit >> Transform). Now rotate the shapes as shown below.

Step: 5

Create a new layer between Face One and Face Two layers and name new layer as “Bottom Corner”. Select “Pen Tool”

Using pen tool make a triangle path in left bottom corner as shown below.


Now right click and select “Fill path”.


Fill it using color #9b9b9b (Its same color we used for Face One shape)


Right click again and this time select “Delete Path”.

It should look like this now.

Step: 6

Create a new layer just above “Bottom Corner” layer and name it as “Top Corner“. Repeat step 5 to make top right corner. It should look like this now.

Step: 7

using CTRL button select Face One, Bottom Corner and Top Corner layers.


Now right click on any layer and select “Merge layers“.

Step: 8

Rename mered layer as “Bottom Face“. Press and hold CTRL button and click on “Bottom Face“ layer. This will load “Bottom Face“ layer.

Step: 9

Set foreground color to #ad8c2b and select Gradient tool with “Foreground to Transparent“.

Step: 10

Apply radial gradient in corners and Reflected Gradient in center. It should look like this.


Apply following layer style to this shape.

Step: 11

Select Face Two Layer and apply following layer style.




It should look like this now.

Step: 12

Create a new layer and name it as icon. Paste the icon which you want to make, like here I am pasting a Twitter icon.


Apply following layer to icon layer.




It should look like this now.

Step: 13

Load Face Two layer.


Create a new layer and name it as Glow. Select Elliptical marquee tool with Intersect with selection.

And make a selection as shown below.


Fill the selection with white color and change its layer mode to soft light and opacity to 30%.
It should look like this now.

Our first icon is ready. Now just change icon to make other social icons like RSS, Facebook, Digg etc

Step 1:
Create a new document, roughly about 500 px by 500 pixels, with white or transparent background. Fill the layer with #3c3c3c color.

Step 2:
Right click first layer and select “duplicate layer”. This will create a duplicate layer of first layer. Set foreground color to #b7b7b7.

Now Select “Ellipse Tool” with “Fill pixels”.

and draw a large circular shape.

change layer mode to “Multiply” and set opacity to 30%. Now it looks like this.

Right click the layer and apply following layer style.

That’s it, you’ve done it. This is how background looks now:

I hope you like the tutorial.

• Difficulty Level: Easy
• Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes

Below is the preview of final image.

Step 1:
Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop (File >> New).


Create a new layer (Layer >> New >> Layer). Select paint bucket tool.


Fill the layer with #981300 color.

Step 2:
Select “Rounded Rectangular Tool” with radius 8px and #000000 color


Draw a navigation bar and change opacity to 50%

Step 3:
Create a new layer (Layer >> New Layer). Select “Rectangle tool”. Set color to #b84208 and draw a shape as shown in below image.

Step 4:
Create a new layer. Select “Ellipse tool” and color to black. Draw a ellipse shape as shown in below image.

Right click the layer and select Rasterize Layer. Now go to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur and apply following.


Select rectangular marquee tool and select top 50% of the ellipse shape and press delete key.


Change opacity to 65% It will now look like this.

Step 5:
Now we will create bottom shadow. Right click the top ellipse shape and select “Duplicate Layer”. This will create duplicate shape of top shadow. Drag the shape to bottom. Now go to Edit >> Transform >> Flip Vertical

Our Navigation bar will now look like this.

Step 6:
Create a new layer, select “text tool” and type menu links with #FFFFFF color.


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Step 1:
Create a new document (File >> New)

Step 2:
Select “paint bucket tool”

Fill the layer with color #2a2a2a

Step 3:
Select “Line tool”.

Set weight to 1px and color to #000000
Create a new layer, press and hold shift key and draw a horizontal line.

Step 4:
Right click line layer and select “Blending Options”

Apply following layer style.

Now it looks like this:

Step 5:
Create a new layer. Select “rectangular marquee tool”

select a area just above line and of about 50px height.

Select gradient tool.

Set foreground color to #ffffff and following settings.

Press and hold shift key and drag mouse from bottom to top.

Step 6:
Create a new layer. Select marquee tool, drag the marquee selection just below the line.

Select gradient tool and set foreground color to #000000
Press and hold shift key and drag mouse from top to bottom of marquee selection.

Press ctrl+D to deselect marquee selection. Press ctrl key and select all layer except background. Now right click any layers and select “merge layers”.

Now our image looks like this:

Step 7:
Select “rectangular marquee tool” and select area covering line and both gradients.

Right click and select “select inverse”.

Again right click and select “Feather” and set to 10px.

Press delete key 5-6 times. Your image is ready.

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Final Image of the Tutorial

Step: 1

Create a new document (File >> New)

You may use different size.

Step: 2

Select “Paint Bucket Tool”.

Paint bucket tool

Fill the layer with any color you with to have as background. I am using #b13f01 color to fill the layer.

Step: 3

Create a New layer (Layer >> New >> Layer..) and select “Line tool”.

Set foreground color to black.

Press and hold shift key and draw a straight line.

Step: 4

Right click Line Layer, and select “Blending options”

Apply following layer style.

Your inset line is ready.