Create a Modern Style Icon with a Professional Finish – Vector Premium Tutorial
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Estimated Completion Time: 3 hours
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We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how how to create a professional level Hard Drive icon with shading and lighting the techniques, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.
This Tutorial is Filled with Professional Techniques
You will learn how to use the the Path Finder Tool, Free Transform and some effects, such as Gaussian Blur and Inner Glow to create a modern style Icon with a professional finish.
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Cool, looks clean! Thanks! :)
Looks wierd… Pretty, but wierd.
Cool.. i Like iT
Beautiful gradient work!
Looks very nice with the exception of the LED; I have never seen an internal drive with an LED on it.
With that perspective would the LED be completely round or more of an ellipse? Details, details, details!
Whoa! Amazing that is all vector. Love the LED light too, real or not, its a eye-catching addition, I could use that kind of thing in a lot of different scenarios. Outstanding final outcome, congrats!
Thanks, man!
nice tut, really impressed with the realism of this icon, really smart and can be adapted to something different easily. thanks
Thanks envato for a quality tut, this looks great and I’ve been waiting for a while to see a solid tut on making pro-quality icons.
Nice tutorial!
thanks for the great tutorials, this is good technique for some technical drawing or illustration like 3d products.
Use gradients on everyting to increase realism … that’s what I learned! Good one. Thanks, Fernando.
You’re welcome. Yes, gradients, along with highlights, are the key. ;)
Just notice that in Fernando’s bio link to his site is mistaken. It goes to nando.com not nando.me.
I hope the admin can fix that.
I’ve fixed that up :)
Thanks so much, these are very useful.
Thanks for your tutorial. I learned some nice techniques.