Photoshop Tutorials: Create a Pixel-Perfect Notebook Icon in Photoshop

Create a Pixel-Perfect Notebook Icon in Photoshop

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 07:50 PM PDT

Preview of Final Results

Tutorial Resources

· Wooden Background – sxc.hu

Step 1

Open up Photoshop and create new document

Step 2

Open the Wooden background , press Ctrl+ T to scale it fit to our background.Now Image > Adjustment> Curve, like this image

Step 3

And this is result

Step 4

Create a Rounded rectangle (shortcut U) with fixed size 700px x 550px and Radius = 40px. Fill it with color # 742b00

Step 5

Now press Filter > Noise > Add noise

Step 6

Then right click for Blending Option > Drop Shadow

Step 7

And we got result like this, we name it ” cover 1″

Step 8

Next, we create second Rounded rectangle (shortcut U) with same size 700px x 550px and Radius = 40px. Fill it with color # 5c3016. Then press Ctrl + T to scale it a little bit smaller than first rectangle which name “cover 1″. And we name the second rounded rectangle as “cover 2″

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