Printer Icon Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial is going to show you how you can draw a printer that can be used as an icon like the one shown below. (Basic knowledge of the use of the pen tool is required)
Let’s start.
Set #96A4AF as foreground color, select the pen tool and draw a shape like the one shown in the screenshot.
Select the Convert Point tool from the pen tools pallet. Click and drag the boxes to have a shape like shown in the figure
Select the pen tool (choose the Paths option) and draw a shape like the one below.
Once again select the Convert Point tool and convert the points like shown in the three screenshots below.
Right click on the shape, select Make selection and set feather radius to 0.
Create a new layer by pressing sift+ctrl+n. Set # 8A949D as the foreground and # B1B7BE as the background color.
Select the gradient tool and fill the selection with a Foreground to background gradient. Finally add a drop shadow to the layer and place it near the first layer. You should have image like shown in the screenshot.
Select the pen tool again. Click on paths as we did previously and draw this shape.
Convert the anchor points with the convert point tool to make it somewhat like in the screenshot below. Right click on the shape, select make selection, set feather to 0 and fill the selection with #9FABB7.
Control click on this layer to select it. Move the selection as shown in following screenshot
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