November 17th, 2008 in Photoshop Tutorials by Richard Carpenter
Simplistic Multi-Tags Icon




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Good afternoon, in this tutorial il show you how to create a simplistic multi-tags icon, from scratch.
Create a new document any size with any background color, select the rounded rectangle change the radius to 10 pixels.

Draw out a thin rectangle in any color, then goto “edit > transfrom > rotate” rotate it very slightly. Once you’ve rotated it added these layer styles and set opacity to 85%.



You should have something like this.

Select the elliptical marquee tool and create a selection like this.

Fill the selection with the color white, whilst holding the CTRL key on the keyboard click your blue tab layer. Goto “select > inverse” then hit the delete key. Set layer opacity to 12% and add a layer mask. Drag a linear gradient from the bottom towards the top.

Select the elliptical marquee tool once more and create a circle in the top left side of the tag.

Finished the step by adding this gradient overlay to the circle.

Add some content to your 1st tag like the image below.

Create more rectangles underneath your main tag. Use the following layer styles for each tag. Remember to rotate each rectangle slightly, use the circle we created previously as a pivit point.



You should have something like this.

On each tag add something different, ive chosen some text, photoshop icons and the hv-designs logo.


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