Glossy Error Icon Tutorial

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Glossy Error Icon Tutorial

In this tutorial I will show you how to make my very glossy error message icon using Adobe Photoshop.

See what we will be making just below.

First we need to make the outer border of the ellipse shape, so with the ellipse tool drag out a circle (the color doesn''t matter we will change it later).

In the layers panel double click the new shape layer to get to the layers styles panel and give it settings as shown below.











And here is the metallic gradient I made..



Now your ellipse should look something like this.



Now that was the first part, easy right? the next stage is to make the inner ellipse, (the red shape), so with the ellipse tool drag out a new shape, a bit smaller, so it looks like the one below.



Again go to the layers styles panel and give this shape the following style settings.







And now the result should look like this.



Yes I know this is a lot of settings for such a little effect, but I promise its worth it..

Now lets make the X in the middle, you can use the custom shape tool to make one, or the text tool and use a custom font the make a cool variation, bit I didn''t, I quite liked the standard X with crisp corners.



Now yet again go to the layers styles panel and give it the following settings.









Now we are almost done, we only need the final touch, but its one of the most important things, the glossy effect.

We will be making this 3 times, using the same technique on 3 different places, so I will only show it once.

Hold down ctrl and click the outer ellipse shape layer to load the shapes selection.

Choose the elliptical selection tool, set the selection mode to subtract from selection, and drag over the selection as shown below.



Finally we will make a gradient going from white to transparent and drag it in the selection to make the glossy effect.





Now as I wrote before, you will need to repeat this last step two more times to accomplish the full effect as I did.

That''s it for now, I hope you enjoyed it.


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