All right, welcome back.
So this is the really fun part of the whole course.
So what I want you to do is open up the iPhone app icon.
Filed that I set up here and then go back to the desktop and right.
Click on the wallpaper that I gave you in the project files.
And what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a couple different icons.
OK.
So the first icon I want to do.
I want to use the default when I have that I show you on my Web site.
It's basically this this play button here with the circle around it with like a gray background.
OK.
So that's that's my default thumbnail.
So what I want to do is we're gonna use the crop tool.
So if you hit the letter C on your keyboard or you click right here, that pop up the crop tool.
And then what we can do is we can grab the crop tool and we can select this icon right here.
So hit enter for me.
And then what I want to do, zoom in.
So hit the letter Z or click on the zoom to over here and we're going to zoom in.
And I want to click on the eraser tool here, and we're going to the magic eraser tool.
And I'm going to erase everything around.
This icon solvency here.
If it makes it easy, OK?
Is it too bad?
All right.
So now what I want you to do is grab the marquee tool and we're going to drag this down to right about
there.
And actually, we're going to go a little bit to the left here so that I don't believe anything that
we need.
Ken, I'm going to zoom in and grab the marquee tool again.
OK?
And then I'll do that here, OK?
And then I'm going to grab the ratio to the letter E k.
I hit the wrong key there.
Hit control D for me, the D select.
And then if you just zoom in real close and hit the letter E and just highlight on the green, it'll
delete just the green and keep the blue there.
There's enough contrast are where you can use that to all the know issue.
So.
All right.
So I'm going to zoom in here.
I will hit you again.
And that's going to delete everything there.
And then I'm going to go over here.
And delete that.
And so we just have a little touch up to do.
Now a lot.
Delete that one.
That one.
And see if I can do this without hope.
OK, so that.
We'll leave that there.
That what because I don't want I don't want to do is when we put a different background on here, which
I'll show you right now.
You'll notice what I'm talking about.
So click right there and then.
OK, so you see how the edges over here are different.
They're kind of rigid.
Right.
That's because it's a raster image.
But if I start deleting this, then it's really going to throw it off.
So let's do this.
What we can do is grab the murky tool and then we'll just erase that I made them a better than.
But, um, bump Amir awake.
Yeah, some cracking jokes now.
I love this stuff.
I really do.
All right.
But fine.
So what I mean is I'm here.
Control Z.
We're going to undo what I just did.
OK.
Sluts under the movie selection.
Undo, clear, undo, move.
And if I just hit control z that I undo it.
Mario.
All right.
Because what we want to do with this is instead of deleting it, I want to actually give it a different
color.
So what I'm doing is I'm gonna grab the marquee tool here and then I'm going to grab the eyedropper,
OK?
And we're going to use the paint bucket to paint this.
That's me.
OK.
And we're going to call that good, OK?
Like I said, I'm just touching this up a little bit just to make it look a little cleaner.
That way you have a good source to work with and that helps.
We'll delete that right there.
And then just go up here and grab the marketable select and then heartily make sure you're on layer's
zero.
OK.
So now that we finally have that beautiful, it looks fantastic.
OK.
So now that we have that saved, what I want to do is we're gonna have control shift s we're gonna save
on our computer.
And I'm gonna call this iPhone app icon template.
So that way we'll know that this is the template for all our icons.
OK.
So now we're losing control, a control, see?
And then we go into this document right here.
OK, I'm going to control T..
Now you can see our graphic is too big for.
This file.
So if you dragged down and hold shift, it'll keep the aspect ratio.
And then what we can do is you can see it already a little bit more than a little bit.
But if I turn this layer off now, we can really see it.
So what I'm to do is I'm going to unlock that layer and we're going to change this color to like a dark
gray.
Not not a black.
Looks too like a dark gray.
OK.
Really make a pop.
Oh, that's very nice.
OK, so that's one icon right there.
Right.
So let's hear control shift AWALT.
Yes.
A rule to save.
This is a PMG and we'll call it Icon one iPhone app.
Icon one.
I'll save that.
That's really cool.
All right.
So now what we're going to do.
He's going to hit control, shift us, and we're going to call this iPhone app icon, too.
And this is where you can really have fun and do your own thing.
You don't have to follow along with me at all if you don't want to.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to completely jack this up and I'm going to turn off the background
and I'm going to pick a wild red color.
Like this, and I'm going to paint this red and this one I'm going to do.
Let's do like a blue.
OK.
There we go.
And then.
I'll make that blue, too, and then I'll give it like a white background.
Actually, let's give you a black background so that, oh, come on, it's cool.
We'll make a white.
OK.
There you go.
So it's completely different than what I intended, of course, but that's the idea.
I want you to kind of take control, shift control, ask to save and then hold control, shift AWALT
as to save the Panji, and we'll just save this as number two.
Beautiful.
And that's really icon design.
Now, I know we did a lot of Photoshop shopping and I already gave you the graphic.
But the idea here is, is.
The concept of icon design.
OK.
And that is this is your bat signal.
So if you're using this for your logo.
This is an extension of your brand of your business.
Whatever your name is of your business.
This is an extension of that.
So this is your bad signal and you want this to be eye popping and compelling.
And so what I want you to do as a side project outside of the course here is I want you to create an
icon.
Using my icon and change it up and then send it to me or just send me a message and say, hey, I did
this.
This is what I got.
You can send me an image and you to me.
So if you want to do that, go ahead and do that.
I encourage you to do that, because like I said, I want you to really get into this and have fun with
it.
This is a fun thing to do.
I spent a lot of time fiddling with my icon because here's the thing, too, and I'm going to show one
more thing and then we're gonna go to the next project.
If you go to Twitter dot com.
And you do learn tech plus K, you can see that's my icon is right there.
OK.
If you go to my YouTube channel, if you go to
fact, let's do that.
Let's go to YouTube.
I don't know them.
I don't know what I see here.
Let's do this.
Let's go to learn tech plus Starcom.
In fact, let's go to learn tech post.com, it'll be easier and then we'll just click on the YouTube
icon here.
So when you go to my YouTube channel, you can see that icon is there, right?
When you go to my Facebook.
Well, guess what's there?
The icon is there.
OK.
When you go to my Instagram.
The icon is there, so everywhere that you go with learn tech.
Plus this icon, if it's not already, there will be soon.
Is my brand extension OK?
It's an extension of my brand.
It's my bad signal, basically.
And so you can see, like for this example here, the name that I was using before was for J Media.
So if I wanted to create an icon for this, you could use a square right here and people be like, well,
why is that?
Because it's called 4G media.
There's four corners on a square.
And it's part of the logo.
And so it's easy to identify with.
If you've looked at it long enough, you know.
And that's why people can identify with this, because here I normally have the icon right next to the
logo here, which I may add that in later.
I'm I'm kind of fiddling with stuff right now, but you get the idea.
So this is really my bad signal right here, because everywhere you go on social media, it's there.
OK.
And the only one we didn't look at.
Well, we even looked at Twitter anyway.
Yeah, we did.
We looked at Twitter.
Everywhere you go on any part of my social media, you see this.
OK.
And this, like I said, is an extension of my brand because I really want people to relate to that
when they're looking at stuff, when they see whatever the big oh, this is from learned tech.
Plus, you don't even need to see my logo.
You just see the icon and you like there it is.
There's the icon.
So.
When I build an app for the iPhone, guess what I'm going to be using?
I'm going to be using this right here.
Not that I'm using this right here.
So this is imperative to understand, especially if you're doing graphic design or you're doing you're
building an app.
You definitely need to know how to do icons.
Icons are crucial for anything with graphic design, app design, app development, anything like that.
You want to learn that and understand it.
So that way you can utilize that skill for what you're doing.
OK, so thank you so much for watching and doing this project with me.
It was a blast.
And I'll see in the next video.
Thanks for watching.