In this tutorial we will demonstrate some easy steps to help you to create your own shiny folder icon in Photoshop. These steps can be easily modified to produce a folder icon for your website.

Creating a Shiny Folder: Final Preview

Final Preview

Tools and Resources

Tools and Resources

Tools

• Polygonal Lasso Tool ( L )
• Brush Tool  ( B )
• Rectangle Tool ( U )
• Gradient Tool ( G )

Lets start to create our shiny folder,

Step 1

Open Adobe Photoshop, create a new file ( Ctrl+N ) (width 600) x (height 500) with white color #ffffff.

Create New File

Step 2

Create a new layer named it Folder, select Polygonal Lasso Tool ( L ) and create a shape like shown in preview.

Create New Layer

Step 3

After creating folder shape, select any soft or hard brush tool ( B ) and paint the color in folder layer, chose any color as you like, but I am choosing black color #000000.

Color Applying

Step 4

Now I am going to blending option and applying these effects.

Gradient Overlay.

Applying Gradient

Inner Glow with color #fffff2

Inner Glow

Stroke with color #c0c0c0.

Stroke

After applying these blending options we get an awesome effect in the following preview.

Get an Awesome Preview

Step 5

Now after applying all blending option on folder shape layer. Now we create a new layer, select the Rectangle Marquee tool (M) and draw a rectangle as like in preview.

Rectangle Tool

Select any soft or hard brush and fill it any color, I am filling this layer with black color #000000. Set this layer down to folder shape layer ( Ctrl+[ ) as like in preview.

Folder Side

Step 6

Now go to blending option and apply some effects on current layer.

Inner Glow with color #fffff2.

Inner Glow

Gradient Overlay.

Applying Gradient Overlay

Stroke with color #c0c0c0.

Stroke

After applying these all blending options we get cool effect as shown in preview.

Get Cool Preview

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