Photoshop: Siri Icon

On October 4th, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with it’s integrated voice system, Siri. The first thing that caught my eye, was of course it’s icon. Let me show you how I made a similar icon in Photoshop!

You’re free to start off with any size document that you wish. I chose to start with a 512x512 document, which is standard for icons, at the moment. This will probably be bumped up to 1024×1024 someday. We’re going to start off by creating the microphone in the middle.

The first shape we’ll create will the be mic ‘stand’. Start off my grabbing your Rounded Rectangle Tool from the Tools on the left, and set the Radius to 100px on the Options Bar at the top of your workspace. This will ensure we’re left with nice rounded corners. Draw out a shape in the middle of the document, like the one below.

Once that’s one, we need to subtract a section from the middle. On your Options Bar, choose the Subtract from shape area button (), then drag out another 100px Rounded Rectangle on top of the previous one, making sure to leave a nice ‘edge’ to it, like you see below.

Now the top of the stand doesn’t look right. We need the edges to be flat. To do this, switch to the Rectangle Tool, and making sure to keep the Subtract from shape area button selected, drag out a rectangle over the edges to flatten them out.

Good. That part is done. Now for the bottom rectangles, we can simply add two rectangles onto our current shape. On the Options Bar, select the Add to shape area button, and drag out two rectangles. One vertically, and one horizontally. You should have something that looks like this:

Good! Now that the shape of the stand is complete, let’s add some Layer Styles. We’re going to add a Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, and a Gradient Overlay. The settings for all three are below.

Perfect! We’ve dealt with the mic’s stand, now let’s create the mic itself. This piece will consist of a few elements. The rounded shape, the ‘dots’ and the shines. Let’s start with the shape of the mic.

To create the shape, we’re going to use the same Rounded Rectangle that we used earlier with the same 100px Radius. Make sure you select the Create new shape button, then draw out a Rounded Rectangle in-between the stand. You should have something like this:

As for the Layer Styles of this layer, we’re going to keep it simple. A Gradient Overlay. The settings are below.

Now that the main shape of the mic is complete, let’s get those ‘dots’ created! Continue on!

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