Icons are an important element of an effective and attractive web design. An appropriate use of icons will help you to achieve a professional and solid website design look in your client eyes. Most of the icons are small and very detailed and often it can be challenging to create the quality ones. Designing icons by listed tutorials you will learn a lot of useful and trendy techniques and you will gain a valuable experience and skills in this field.

In this post you will find 20 newest Photoshop tutorials on creating beautiful and modern  icons

New iMac Mini Icon Design Tutorial

In this detailed tutorial you will find out how to create a realistic looking new iMac mini, you’ll be able to use the iMac as an illustration or an icon.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create A HD Television Icon

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial you will learn to create a HD Television icon.

Create a Download Folder Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will find how to create a download folder icon using different shapes and reflections in Photoshop.

How To Design a Realistic Takeout Coffee Icon

This tutorial will show you how to design a realistic takeout coffee cup icon in Adobe Photoshop.

How to Create a Beautiful Printer Icon in Photoshop

Learn how to create this beautiful printer icon with reflections and shadows all within Photoshop.

Speedometer Design From Scratch Tutorial

In this detailed tutorial you’ll discover how to create a speedometer from scratch, you’ll learn such things as text on a path, using the pen tool, working with shape layers and much more.

3D Glassy RSS Icon Tutorial

This tutorial will help you to create a huge, glassy 3D RSS icon in Photoshop.

Create a Photo Realistic iPhone in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a photo realistic image of Apple iPhone4.

How to Create a Battery Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn to draw a battery icon with 3D look in Photoshop.

Create a Microchip Icon Using Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial you will see how to create an isometric microchip icon using basic drawing tools and transformations.

Blog Writing Professional Icon Tutorial

Very detailed and beautiful icon tutorial in Photoshop. Lots of useful and modern techniques used.

Create a Camera Lens Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will demonstrate you how to create a camera lens icon using Photoshop.

Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll discover how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse.

Radar Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a Mac style radar icon in Photoshop.

Draw a Roll of Camera Film in Photoshop

Icon design can be a lot of fun. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a roll of camera film using Photoshop.

Create an Open Book Icon In Photoshop

This very detailed tutorial demonstrates you how to create an open book icon in Photoshop.

How to Draw a Classic Electric Guitar in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will see how to draw an electric guitar in Photoshop (with a bit of help from Illustrator). You will learn how to draw perfect highlights and shadows manually using the Brush Tool and the Stroke command.

Industrial Folder Style Icon

In this tutorial you will be guided through the process of creating an industrial style folder icon.

Create a Cute Twitter Bird Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will demonstrate you how to create a cute Twitter bird icon in Photoshop.

Learn To Create A Safe Illustration

In this tutorial you’ll see all the process of creating a Safe Illustration. Number of tools used in this tutorial so there’s plenty to be learned.

In our continued effort to find and deliver to you the best free design resources, we’ve compiled a list of 20 excellent icon sets for application design. Just like fonts and textures, you can’t have too many icons in your design library. In this collection you’ll find a variety of icon styles that should fit any type of application design.

Basic Set 2

iconSweets

Mini Icons

Free iphone toolbar icons

Glyphish

Splashy Icons

Token

Basic Set

WooFunction

Vaga

Pixelated

Nixus

Vaga Icon Set

FAMFAMFAM – Mini

Free web development icons #1

Free web development icons #2

Tango

Led Icon Set

FAMFAMFAM – Silk

Pixel LED Icon Set

Download

Download

Apple Office Icons

TurboMilk Icons

iPod Vector Icons

NES Icons Pack

Every design needs icons at some level. So, this week the  Design Resource will present free icon resources.

1.Web Appers Free Web Application Icons – 20 glossy 3D application icons. Sizes 48×48, 32×32 and 24×24.

2. Vista Ultimate IconPackager Vs. 1

3. Vista Ultimate IconPackager Vs. 2

4. StudioMX MacOS style computer icons – PC, Mac and iPod devices icons.

5. iTweak’s deviantART icon gallery – gallery of iPod, Skype, folder, photo icons and more.

6. Apple various icons pack

7. Email Me Icons by Mayosoft

8. Rounder icons – round application icons (Photoshop, Firefox etc.)

9. Aestetica Icon Set – 47 high quality web icons in 32-bit transparency in PNG and Photoshop’s PSD. They come in 16 x 16px; 24 x 24px; 32 x 32px; 48 x 48px and 128 x 128px size.

10. Inspiration Orb

11. IconBase Community – collection of the best icons on the web.

12. Project Folder pack – superb folder icons.

13. IconsPedia – PNG icons and Icon packs.

14. Web 2.0 Vector icon pack 1 and Web 2.0 Vector icon pack 2

14. Social networking icons

15. Free RSS icons

16. Web site icons – Collection of free Web 2.0 website and application icons

17. Free icons Web – over 15,000 high quality Free Icons

18. 16×16px icons – over 1200 16×16px icons

19. Web Design, Weblog & CMS, user and E-commerce icons

20. Vista Style Icons – collection of free Vista Style icon sets of over 2500 high quality icons in png and ico format

21.

90 Free Vector Icon Sets, all in one EPS file. You can download the file directly from here.

Before we have published 50 Christmas Icons,today we publish Beautiful Christmas Icons again,hope you like.

You also like these posts about christmas:

       50-christmas-wallpapers

        250-christmas-icons 

System icons

30 Phenomenal Free Icon Sets for your iPhone – Pimp it Up

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Chalkwork

ThemeMyPhone

Comic iPhone Icons

Social Bookmark Icons

Deep: iPhone

SummerBoard

Web 2 Icons

iChad

Hand Draw iPhone Icons

iPhone icons

Aquaticus Socia

Aquaticus

Some beautiful iPhone icons

iPhone brazilian

ultra colors

CandyMilk V2

iSweet2

Apollo

Vixbona

Techube

iPhone Pack

IPhoneStyle Dock

Radiance

iTouch Home

Aluminium and White

Deep

iphonica

Circle

Black Neon Agua

iclypso

Vista Perfection

and finally…4 icon sets from Torx-Tevelopment

When a designer releases a free high quality icon set, we are all delighted and grateful. And when a designer releases an icon set accompanied by the .psd files we are ecstatic. An icon set may at times be limited to your requirements, and the chance to extend the icon set, with the use of a .psd file is always helpful.

Radium Icon PSDs

Flavours Icon Set PSDs

Proxal Icon Set v2 PSDs

9 .PSD Icons Vol. 1

5 .PSD Icons Vol. 2

6 .PSD Icons Vol. 3

6 .PSD Icons Vol. 4

Radium Neue PSDs

openPhone PSDs

Peely Icons PSDs

iKons 4 CS4 PSDs

E-maniacs RSS Icons PSDs

Setup Icon PSDs

Glossy Icons in 4 Colours PSDs

On-Stage Vector PSD Icon Set

Designers Icons PSDs

Medien Konvergence Icons PSDs

Minimalistic Icon Set

Second Free PSDs Icon Pack

PSD Fox

Folder Icon Template PSD

Simple Elegance – Folder Icon PSD

Preview Icon Template PSD

Talk icon PSD

Apple Mail PSD

Filetype Icon PSD

Bookmark Icon PSD

PSD-Icons

StormTrooper Icon PSD

Free PSD Avatar Icon Set

Bevel And Emboss – PSD Icons

Folder Icon PSD

Trendy Mail Icon PSD

iPod Touch PSD

iPhone 3G-3GS PSD

Airport Express PSD

Product Box PSD

PLASMA TV PSD

Hard Disk Icons PSDs

DVD Icon Template PSDs

Headphones PSD

Zune 30GB PSD

Magnifa Pro Icon PSDs

RIM Blackberry Icon PSD

XBOX 360 Icon PSD

Wall Phone PSD

Basketball Icon PSD

Lifebelt Icon PSD

iPhone Icon PSD

Ganato.com – 24 Psd Icon Sets

Today cosmos blog  is very happy to announce the release of  Web Application Icons  with 3D effect and glossy style. There are 20 icons designed specially for web applications (e.g. Charts, Profile, Search, Add, Delete, Email, Print, Warning and etc…). Icons come in 3 sizes; 48×48 px, 32×32 px, and 24×24 px. All of them are in PNG format with transparent background.

If you like this icons set, please do not forget to Stumble / Digg this or give some link love to this post. It will be more encouraging if you can leave a comment as well. I am more than happy to bringing you more great icons for free in the near future.

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1. Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

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2. Christmas Holiday Icons

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3. Christmas Icons and Christmas WordPress Themes

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4. Christmas Icons

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5. 25+ Beautiful Christmas Icon Sets

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6. 10 Sets of Beautiful Free Christmas Icons from deviantART

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7. Web 2.0 Gift Icons by IconsPedia

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8. 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets

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9. A Nice List of Christmas Tutorials, Brushes, Clipart and Icons

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10. 20 Beautiful Christmas Icons

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11. Christmas Design Toolkit: Photoshop Brushes, Vector Images And Tutorials

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12. Over 2000 Christmas Goodies – PNG, Vectors, Icons, Wallpapers, Cliparts and PSD files

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13. Over 100 Free Christmas Design Resources – A Design Bliss Mega-List

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14. Amazing Christmas Freebie Round-up!

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15. Free Santa Vector

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16. FREE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY ICONS ROUND-UP

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17. Free Christmas Vectors

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18. Special Christmas Icons

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19. Free Christmas Vector Graphics collection

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20. 20 Beautiful Christmas Icon Sets

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more resources about chrismas:

        17 Christmas Wallpaper Collection

        10 Christmas Fonts Collection

        12 Christmas Brushes Collection

You are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference to free resources related to Christmas that our readers may like.

We collect much free icons to downlowd,it’s usefull for designers,We will add day and day.help you like.

32px mania    

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34aL volume 3.2 SE

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49 hand drawn icons

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 Absque

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Alcohol

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 Animals

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Aquaticus

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ASP.NET icons

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August

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Aurora

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Austerity

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Bags and boxes

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Ball icons

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Basic Set

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BeOS

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Black and Blue

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Blogging

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Breakfast

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BWPX

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C9d

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Carpelinx

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Christmas

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Cinema

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Credit Cards

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crystalclear

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Dark Glass

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Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

Being a successful creative web artist has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design in some lessons or you can’t create icons for your daily needs, but it never hurts to pick a few free icons which are always available free to grub.

1. Function icon set

Function icon set is a great collection designed by Liam McKay. All icons are free for personal non-commercial use.

2. Web Development Icons

Icojoy has beautiful free icon sets including web development icon sets, pixel icon sets, rss icon sets & smiley icons.

This is the 4th part of their web development icon sets. Click here to find their all free icons.

Web development icons is a set with 60 free icons in web 2.0 style (24×24). These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

3. Monofactor

Monofactor is a beautiful set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons. You are completely free to edit, change and/or directly use the icons in your site and in any kind of your projects.

4. Aquaticus Social Icons

Aquaticus is a beautiful social icons set designed by Jwoloh (60×60, 48×48, 24×24, 16×16):

5. Simplicio

Simplicio is a simple looking but a quality & free icon set.

The set has 78 icons & the download package consists of ICO, PNG & AI files.

It’s Valentine Love‘s day once again! we publish post abut Valentine Love icon,hopy you like.

you also like past post:valentine-love-icons

Icon Designs

URL : http://www.icondrawer.com/free.php

URL : http://dezignus.com/loveicons/

URL : http://www.mouserunner.com/Spheres_Free_Hearts.html

URL : http://weboso.deviantart.com/art/Be-my-Ipod-Video-Valentine-29027285

URL : http://dezignus.com/ribbons-bows-badges/

Brushes Set

URL : http://cubsocer10-stock.deviantart.com/art/Hearts-Brush-Set-51257101

URL : http://www.skeedio.com/other/brushes/

URL : http://tatsuyasaverem.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-Brushes-Hearts-39503043

 

URL : http://yanagi-san.deviantart.com/art/Yanagi-Love-Brushes-32178317

URL : http://www.easyelements.com/photoshop-heart-brush-set.html

Vector Graphics and Designs

URL : http://dezignus.com/hq-love-poster/

URL : http://createsk8.com/2008/free-vector-hearts-for-valentines-day/

URL : http://garcya.us/blog/amaizing-love-vectors/

URL : http://www.larissameek.com/a-wallpaper-made-with-love

URL : http://memories-stock.deviantart.com/art/Romantic-Silhouette-Brushes-46393717

URL : http://aramisdream.deviantart.com/art/Valentine-74951843

Here are tones of free crystal clear icons for you, released by Everaldo Coelho under GNU Lesser General Public License. Icons are organized by categories of Actions, Applications, Devices, File Systems, KDM and MIME-Types. They come in transparency .PNG format with size as large as 128×128. A free icon page web and UI designers would not want to miss.

Visit Crystal Clear Icons

Thanks Jim for the heads up.

Placing a Twitter “follow me” button on your website or blog is certainly one of the easiest way to convert visitors into Twitter followers. Designing a beautiful Twitter icon or badge can be challenging for those who know less about design, but the good news is – there are plenty of nice and high quality Twitter icons and badges available for free.

In this week’s post, we attempt to show you another 30 Sets of High Quality Twitter Icons associated with the blue bird.

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons
via wefunction
Title says it all, all in transparent .png format.

The Social Bird icon set
via inspiredm
Released by Inspired Magazine, consisted the work of Frank Chimero, Jeffrey Bowman, Mills, Dyna Moe, Alex Mathers, Divya Manian, Matt Joyce and more!

TwitterFun Icons
via graphicleftovers
Collection contains Twitter notebook, Twitter blimp, Twitter lightbulb and Twitter monitor.

Happy Birds
via webdesign.fm
4 happy go lucky birds. Comes in PSD and PNG formats.

2 Cute Twitter Icons
via jeeremie
The zip contains two transparent PNG icons available in resolutions of 128×128 pixels, 256×256 and 512×512. The sources are in AI files (Adobe Illustrator CS3), PSD files and EPS file.

High Res Dark Denim Social Media Icons
via webtreats
108 high resolution icons, and the Twitter are just small parts of it.

Fat Twitters icon pack
via jankoatwarpspeed
Pack consist of two icons (those two sitting on the branch). Both icons come in five sizes: 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32.

Twitter Bird Icon Set
via productivedreams
6 icons, all in high quality transparent PNG format.

Twitter Eggs
via graphicleftovers
Available in PNG format in two sizes: 256 x 256 px and 128 x 128 px.

Cute Tweeters Icon Set
via Smashing Magazine
Eight icons. Available in 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 in formats of eps, psd and ai

Twitter Icon
via Diwa Fernandez
High resolution Twitter icon in PNG format.

Elvis, hero, meditation and sufer
via ebiene.de
4 x 126 Pixel PNG, 4 x 256 Pixel PNG, 1 x Preview, 1 x Adobe Illustrator

Twitter stamp icon
via Marco Kuiper
All icons are available in three different sizes: 32×32, 64×64 and 128×128 px, and Twitter icons are just part of it.

Twitter icon
via antonist

Twitter icon
via aleandros
Not exactly blue, but fairly high resolution and can color can be tweaked easily.

Twitter Icon
via marek.sotak
Twitter lblue bird with big fluffy wings.

Twitter Block Icons
via Fast Icons
Package consist of: Blue Bird, Blue Bird Follow, Blue Whale, Orange Whale.

Twitter Birds
via InaliBlast
Twitter blue bird in high resolution PNG format.

Twitter bird vector icon set
via Mau Russo
Comes in ai svg and png.

Twitter bird logo icon illustration
via Matt Hamm

Twitter / fail bird illustration
via ohmgee
A freelance illustration about twitter going mainstream.

Tweetenstein
via biggreenape

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet
via thedesignsuperhero
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Free Twitter Birds
via Luc Latulippe
Twenty-four Twitter icons in six different style, each in 4 different colours.

Moby Twitter Bird
via Mau Russo
Available in .ai and png.

Lovely Twitter Icons
via Catmy

Tweetbird Free Twitter Icon
via sneh.roy
The icon comes in 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixel sizes.

Tweeta Free Twitter Bird Icon Set
via littleboxofideas
Tweeta in her glamor queen avatar or in her cute and sexy twitter cheerleader avatar. Available in 64px, 128px, 256px and 512pix in png format.

Helvetwitca Vector Typographic Twitter
via Monika Halim
Helvetwitca is created using HelveticaNeue LT 45 Light for it’s body, HelveticaNeue for the foot and HelveticaNeue LT 95 Black for the smiling eye and mouth.

Tweeties
via Chris Wallace
Include four different .png image sets (32×32, 48×48, and 80×80) and original ai format.