Create a Leatherback Book Icon in Photoshop

Preview of Final Results

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Create a Leatherback Book Icon in Photoshop

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Resources

• Leather Pattern – Flickr
• Stripes Patterns – Brusheezy
• Striped Pattern – Deviant Art
• Champagne and Limousines – DaFont

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Step 1 New Document

Open up Photoshop and create a new document

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Step 2

On the background layer fill it in with #412405 using the paint brush tool.

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Step 3

Create a new layer then Edit>Fill and select your pattern

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Step 4

Change this layer to Pin Light with an Opacity of 24%

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Step 5

Create a new layer and name it ‘book’ then grab your pen tool and make the shape of a book

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Step 6

Add these layer styles

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Step 7

Now we add a highlight to this book, create a new layer and name it ‘shine’. Grab your 172 px soft round brush paint brush tool #b74322 and place it on the corner of your book

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Step 8

Now we will add some shine to the spine of the book. Create a new layer and grab a 51 px soft round brush (#FFFFFF). Now while holding down the shift key, make a line across your image. Holding the shift key keeps the brush in a straight line.

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Step 9

Now Edit>Free Transform and turn it so that it lines up with the angle of the book, erase away any parts that go beyond the book.

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Step 10

Change this layer to Soft Light with an Opacity of 85%

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Step 11 Shadow

Create a new layer and name it ‘shadow’ and with a 95px soft round brush #3b0d06 paint along the edges of the edges. I like to create a selection around the book so that I don’t have to worry about erasing, to do this hold down the ‘shift’ key and click the image box on the ‘book’ layer

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Step 12

Now add some more shadow but use a darker color #310c05

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Step 13 Pages

Create a new layer and name it ‘pages’ and grab your pen tool and make this shape and fill it with #ffffff

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Step 14

Add Inner Shadow

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Step 15

Create a New layer and grab your rectangular marquee tool and make a box on your canvas and fill it with the stripe pattern. Edit>Fill>Pattern

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Step 16

Edit>Free Transform and line it up so that it is at the same angle of your ‘page’ layer.

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Step 17

Delete the unnecessary areas

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Step 18

Add a Gradient Overlay

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Step 19

Duplicate this layer but change the settings. First change the layer’s Opacity to 38% and then change the Gradient Overlay.

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Step 20 Ribbon

Create a new layer and name it ‘ribbon’ and with your pen tool create the shape of a ribbon. Duplicate this layer

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Step 21

Add these layer styles to the first layer

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Step 22

On the second Ribbon layer beneath the first layer change the Opacity to 49% and change the Color Overlay

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Step 23

Apply a Gaussian Blur

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Step 24

Create a new layer and make a selection of your ‘page’ layer and apply a stroke

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Step 25

Erase some parts of the line and apply a Gaussian Blur

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Step 26

Create another layer and apply another stroke. Make a selection from the ‘book’ layer

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Step 27

Grab your pen tool and make sure that your paint brush tool is set to #ffffff 7px soft round brush and make markings on the spine of the book

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Step 28

Change the Opacity of this layer to 9%

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Step 29

Create a new layer and make some more markings but this time make sure your paint brush tool is set to 7px #421209

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Step 30

Change this layer to Multiply with an Opacity of 76%

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Step 31

Open up your texture and line up your texture, erase the outer parts

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Step 32

Change this layer to Multiply

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Step 33

Grab your Custom shape tool and make this shape

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Step 34

Rotate it so that it lines up with the book. Change this layer to Soft Light with an Opacity of 64%

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Step 35

Add these layer styles

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Step 36

Grab your pen tool and make the strap, the color I used to fill it is #732811

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Step 37

Create a new layer and apply the leather texture again to this strap. Change the layer to Multiply

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Step 38

Apply a Drop Shadow

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Step 39

Duplicate this layer but make the Drop shadow invisible by clicking the ‘eye’ on the duplicated layer

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Step 40

Grab a soft round brush #240603 and paint along the edges of the strap on a new layer

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Step 41

Change this layer to Soft Light with an Opacity of 48%

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Step 42

Create a new layer and grab your pen tool and make a smaller strap

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Step 43

Add these layer styles

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Step 44

Create a new layer and add the leather texture and change it to Linear Burn

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Step 45

Grab your paint brush tool and add some shadow around the smaller strap #a16a49. Change this layer to Multiply

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Step 46

Create a new layer and with a 23 px soft round brush make another line. I’m using the color #2c0d05

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Step 47

Edit>Free Transform and align it along the spine of the book and change this layer to Soft Light. Erase any parts that are not needed.

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Step 48

Create a new layer and name it ‘lock’ and grab your pen tool and make this shape.

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Step 49

Add these layer styles

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Step 50

Make a selection of the lock and contract it 5px. Select>Modify>Contract

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Step 51

Add a stroke. Edit>Stroke

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Step 52

Add these layer styles

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Step 53

Create a New layer and with your pen tool make the key hole

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Step 54

Add these layer styles

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Step 55

Grab a 9px hard round brush #000000 and place it beneath the key hole

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Step 56

Add these layer styles

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Step 57

Duplicate this notche layer and place it above the key hole.

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Step 58

Select all the layers that pertain to your Leatherback book and place it in a group by dragging all the selected layers to the folder icon. Duplicate this layer and place it beneath your original book. Apply a layer mask and erase the bottom. On the duplicated book group find your ribbon and ribbon shadow layer and turn them vertical. Edit>Free Transform> Flip Vertical

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Step 59

Create a new layer and grab the Rectangular Marquee Tool and make a rectangle on the left side of the canvas, fill it with #000000

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Step 60

Change this layer to Soft Light

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Step 61

Create a new layer and with a soft round paint brush place it at the top of your canvas #ffffff

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Step 62

Change this layer to soft light

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Step 63

Grab your type tool and type out whatever you want it to say. I’m using the word “Book Fair”, the font I’m using ‘Champagne & Limousines’

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Step 64

Add these layer styles

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Final Results

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