Create your own simple RSS Feed Icon

create your own simple rss feed icon

At one point in your blog’s life, you’ll decide that you’ve outgrown the typical RSS button. This tutorial is for that time. There are tons of tutorials for Web 2.0 buttons and the like. In this tutorial I will show you how you made an easy RSS feed button in few easy steps.

The result of this Tutorial is shown below:

create your own rss feed icon

Begin with creating small square in any color you want your rss to be.

Creating your own rss feed icon

Transform it using Rectangular Marquee Tool then right click on it and click on Warp and give a suitable shape to your Rss Feed icon, something like this:

Create your own Rss feed icon

Now using Gradeint Tool give it some good colors combination, i have used these colors:

rss feed icon

and my result is here after giving Gradient Effect,

create your own rss feed icon

Now duplicate this layer , change the color of the new layer to black , goto blending option & decrease its opacity,

create your own rss feed icon

move the new layer slightly down to first layer, and then you will have something like this:

create your own rss feed icon

Now, using Ellipse tool create a new small circle and give it some bevel & emboss effect,

create your own rss feed icon

Again create new straight circular line using Ellipse Tool,

create your own rss feed icon

Transform it and then use Warp to give it a good shape,

create your own rss feed icon

Now your result will be something like this,

create your own rss feed icon

Duplicate this layer now and then decrease its size and place it under another line,
and here is your Final Result

create your own rss feed icon

You can create many different Rss feed icons like this easily using the same procedure.

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Added on June 28, 2008 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials | | Total Views: 355
  1. Sumithra ( June 30th, 2008 - 2:44 pm )

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    Oh, that’s so helpful! Thanks
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