Discover the step-by-step process of stylizing icons, creating shapes behind them to highlight and accent each one, and adding a title below each icon. Learn how to create a guide for artboard, create a layer for circles, transform the circles, and change their color.
Key Insights
- The process begins by hiding each icon to create more space for working, then a guide for an artboard is created. This guide includes a bottom guide for the icons and a top guide for the icon circles.
- Creating the icon circles involves creating a new layer, which is titled "left circle". A circle is then created using the ellipse tool, transformed to fit within the guidelines using the move tool, and its color is changed to blue.
- Using the visibility tool, icons are added into these circles. The icons are then rearranged according to the order required, resized to fit within the parameters of the guides, and then adjusted to fit within the guides.
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In this video we'll be stylizing our icons. The goal for this will be that we'll create shapes behind the icons as circles to help highlight and accent each of these icons, and in addition we'll create a title below each of the icons as well.
So let's get started first by hiding each of the icons. This will give us a little more space to be able to view the space that we're working with. Next let's create a guide for artboard one.
We'll select artboard one, and now let's create our bottom guide for the icons. We'll put this bottom guide right at 51 inches, and let's create a top guide for the icon circles, and we'll leave these top ones at 45 inches. Between 45 inches and 51 inches we'll have six inch circles, each with an icon in the middle.
Below that we'll create our titles for each of the icons. Now let's begin creating the icon circles. First let's start by going into our icons folder since the circles will also be within the icons folder.
We'll next create a new layer, and let's title this layer left circle, and hit ENTER. Next let's go to our Shape tools, and holding down the Rectangle tool we'll see the tools in this gallery, and we'll select the Ellipse tool by releasing. Finally let's click and drag a circle.
We'll start in the top left-hand corner, and holding Shift will make a perfect circle. We'll drag it out until it's about the bottom of the guide, and release. Let's zoom in a little bit more.
Next let's switch over to using the Move tool in the Tools bar, where we can select this circle, and we're going to transform it using CTRL+T. We'll then drag our circle to the bottom guide, and hold Shift to maintain the correct ratio, and next we'll move it over to the right so that it's in line with all three guides. We can then hit ENTER, and we have a circle perfectly fitting within the guides. Let's zoom back out, and we can see how this will look.
For our next change let's change the color of this circle, and let's make it the blue color from our library. We'll double-click the blue, and click OK. We've now created our first circle.
Let's create two more for the additional icons. We can take a left circle, and drag it into the new layer to duplicate it. We'll call this one center circle, and hit ENTER, and now we'll move the center circle to the right, holding Shift to make sure we move only left and right, and we'll align it with the center guide.
Let's now create one more to create our right circle. We'll drag center circle into new layer, and we'll rename this right circle, and hit ENTER, and next with right circle selected, we'll drag this to the right while holding Shift until it's in line with the right guide. We now have our three circles for our icons.
Let's hit CTRL+S on the keyboard to save our work, and now let's add the icons into these circles. To do this, we're going to toggle the visibility of all three of our icons, and next we're going to select each of these icons holding CTRL, and move them to the top. We now have the three icons above the three circles that they'll be displayed within.
Next, let's check our copy to determine what order the icons need to be in. If we open up our folder, and open the Phase 10 copy, we'll see looking at Banner 2 that the principles are safety, environment, innovation. Going back to our Photoshop file, we'll need safety, environment, and then innovation.
We'll drag the Innovation icon to the right-hand side, and next we're going to want to move the safety icon to the left. When we're working with moving multiple images on top of each other, it can be helpful with the Selection tool to go to our Options bar and uncheck Auto Select. This way, when we select items within our layers, we can individually move them without worrying that we're clicking on a different layer.
For example, if I have the safety icon selected, I can click, and move it around without worrying that I'm going to click on the blue circle behind it. Next, let's move over our environment icon. We'll go to our Layers panel and select the environment icon, and now we'll move that over to the center.
Finally, we'll select the Innovation icon, and move that up. As a final step, we're going to be resizing each of these icons within the circles. So let's start with the safety icon first.
We'll select it in our Layers panel, we'll hit CTRL+T to resize it; now let's fit it within the parameters of our guides. We'll resize it to the top, we'll zoom in, and resize it to the bottom, and then we'll realign it to the left. Next, let's resize the environment icon.
We'll go to environment icon in our Layers panel to select it. We'll hit CTRL+T to transform it, and then we're simply going to again drag it within the size of our guides. We'll then align it so it's in the middle, and hit ENTER.
Finally, we're going to select our Innovation icon. We'll hit CTRL+T, we'll line it up within our guides, dragging each of these corners, and we'll align it to the right, and hit ENTER. We've now adjusted each of the icons to fit within our guides.
In the next video, we'll resize them to fit within the circles, as well as add descriptions below. See you there!