After that change the Blending of the layer to Color Dodge and apply a Gaussian Blur of 2 or 3 for the radius. The circle will be black already so go to Edit>Stroke. To create the light effect is very simple. After that resize it so it will be much smaller like the image below. Duplicate this layer and rotate it 90º.ĭuplicate both layers and apply more gaussian blur to them in order to create a glow.ĭuplicate the black circle that we created in the step 7 then change its order so it is on top of the others. After that change the Blending to Color Dodge. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and use 2 for the Radius. With the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) create a thin rectangle and fill it with white in order to create a line. Now with the Brush Tool (B) and still with the same very soft round brush, use black to paint on the sides of the circle in order to create some depth.Īdd a new layer then fill with black. ![]() Notice that the circle marquee selection is still active.Īdd a new layer on top of the previous two layers. Use the image below for reference.Īdd a new layer and with the Brush Tool (B) and with a very soft brush and #926007 for the color paint a light spot on top of the center of the circle with gradient. Then with the Gradient Tool (G) fill the circle with the gradient where the center will be at the bottom of the circle. Create a new gradient preset and then use radial for the type and for the colors use black and #926007 for the center color.ĭuplicate the black circle in the center and resize it in order to make it slightly smaller. Use black for the color and it will be beneath the border group. After that create another circle that will be the center of our radar. Group all layers used to create the metallic border. After that merge the two layers and change the blending of the merged layer to Linear Dodge. After that resize it a little bit in order to make it a slightly smaller.Īnother thing you will have to do here is this, add a new layer and fill it with black, this layer will be beneath the white border. Then go again to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use the image below for reference.ĭuplicate the grey border again and use the fake color filter but this time to convert it to white. Then just make sure that you have black as the background color before applying this filter.Īfter that go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. If you hide the small one you will have a result like the image below.ĭuplicate the grey border we created in the previous step and change the Blending to Screen in order to make it lighter.ĭuplicate the border again and fill it with black then, there are 2 ways to do that, once is using the Paint Bucket Tool (N) and the second one, which I prefer is to go to Filter>Color>False Color. Select the big circle with the marquee selection active and hit the Delete key to delete that area of the big circle. After that go to Edit>Load Selection to create a marquee selection of the smaller circle. Once you have the background with the Ellipse Marquee Tool (M) create circle and fill it with a 50% grey.ĭuplicate the circle and then go to Edit>Free Transform and resize it so it's slightly smaller. After that fill the background with a dark grey and add some noise using black for the background. ![]() Open Pixelmator and create a new document, I'm using 1024x1024 pixels. I will show you how to create some bevels and light effects that are very characteristic of these icons. So, in this tutorial I will show you how to create a beautiful Mac style icon using Pixelmator. ![]() As I like to play with all tools I decided to give it a try in Pixelmator as well. It was a radar one inspired by the Network Utility icon. A few weeks ago I showed you how to create a Mac style icon using Photoshop.
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