How to Create a Shiny Paint Bucket Icon
Another Photoshop tutorial I created for Psdtuts+.
I made this icon in September, when I started freelancing full time. Luckily Psdtuts+ was in need of a few icon tutorials so I had a lot of fun doing what I like.
You know the feeling of waking up in the morning and saying to yourself “What will I do today?”. You just want to bite into the day and make something beautiful. I never had that when I was working for someone else. That’s terrible. I like to wake up very early on Monday and wage my full-on attack on the week: freelancing is a war!
Ok, enough with the inappropriate violent metaphors, read the full tutorial on Psdtuts+ and comment, praise, criticize and share.
Also, while you’re at it, take a look at my other tutorials on this blog, on Psdtuts+ and Vectortuts+.
In step 2 you say “Now make a rectangular selection with the Marquee Tool (M) on the “bottom” layer and fill it to complete the bucket (2c).
How do you fill the selection marquee ?
Alt+Enter to fill with the foreground color, Cmd+Enter with the background color.
I have the bottom layer selected with 161, 161, 161 gray chosen for the foreground and the background. I made the selection marquee and neither of instructions filled the selection marquee with gray When the thumbnail is chosen in the layer, and I press CMD+Return, the selection marquee then wraps around the elipse. the elipse can then be transformed but not the marquee.
These are your instructions for Step 2.
Create a new copy of the smaller ellipse and make it yellow, which will make the paint’s surface (2a). Position it inside the bucket, erasing the unnecessary pixels (2b). Name this layer “paint.” Now make a rectangular selection with the Marquee Tool (M) on the “bottom” layer and fill it to complete the bucket (2c). With the “bottom” layer selected hit Command + T to invoke the Free Transform Tool. Right-click and choose Perspective. Now drag the bottom corners towards the center to apply the correct perspective deformation (2d).
From these directions I don`t know which layer I`m suppose to be on when I make the selection marquee. If I`m suppose to be on the “bottom” layer there is no way the selection marquee can be filled with a color. If you are suppose to be on the “paint” layer the marquee will only fill with the yellow color. Your Alt+Enter, CMD+Enter instructions don`t work either. I`m using CS4.
Did you rasterize the shapes? If so then you can definitely fill selections with colors, believe me. The shortcut I gave you was wrong, though. Sorry. It’s Alt+Backspace/Cmd+Backspace.
I use the shortcuts without thinking then when I have to explain them sometimes I screw up…Hope it works now.
I new to photoshop and am use to illustrator. How do you achieve this step? Create a new copy of the smaller ellipse and make it yellow, which will make the paint’s surface (2a). Position it inside the bucket, erasing the unnecessary pixels (2b). Name this layer “paint.” Thanks for the tutorials!