HP Tutorial

This is my first tutorial, but I’ve tried my best to make it easy to follow. So it’s slightly drawn out and image intensive. A moderate knowledge and familiarity with Photoshop would be helpful, but it shouldn’t be too difficult to come up with something similar. Please don’t copy this tutorial exactly because, really, what would be the point? And hopefully this’ll inspire people to come up with some nice icons, which is what most tutorials do for me :)

I used Photoshop 7.0, and here's the icon I'll be exlaining how to make:



Click the icon to be taken to the tutorial at my icon journal, gemstuff. Hope it's helpful!