Hourglassc Icon Photoshop Tutorial

1. With this photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create an hour glass icon. The 1st thing to do is to create a 90×90 pixel document in Photoshop, with a white background. Since it’s quite a small graphic, zoom in to 300%. Create a new layer in a layer set. Make a small rectangular marquee and then create a reflected gradient, using light and dark grey.

2. Duplicate the gradient, moving it over to the right hand side.

3. Use the ellipitical marquee tool to create an oval selection.

4. Fill the selection with a dark grey on a new layer.

5. Move the selection downwards and then delete the selected area.

6. Make a rectangular selection on other side of the grey shape to delete the ends.

7. Create a new layer below the dark grey shape and then make a lighter grey oval

8. Create a grey cirlce above the oval you just created.

9. Use the polygonal lasso tool to create the shape shown below.

10. Make a selection of the circular shape and then create a foreground to transparent radial gradient.

11. Duplicate the layer set that we created at the beginning and then flip it vertically.

12. Create a thinner gradient using light and dark grey

13. Duplicate the gradient and move it to the right side.

16. Make a selection out for the dark grey top part and then make a foreground to transparent gradient, to give a shine to the hourglass.

17. Duplicate the gradient, flip it vertically and then move it to the bottom.

18. Use the polygonal lasso tool and layer via copy to make a copy of of the part in the image below.

19. Make a selection of the copy

20. Fill the selected area with a yellow/green colour.

21. Use the elliptical marquee tool to create a lighter yellow/green oval

22. Do the same with the bottom

23. Filling the shape with a darker colour

24. And then creating a lighter oval shape

25. Zoom out and then resize the image to 40×40 or what ever size suits your layout, and then you’ve finished this tutorial!