As icons appear in larger sizes through appearances in Mac applications and rich user interfaces the icon designs themselves are becoming more and more detailed.  Creating icon could be enjoyable yet easy. You can make icons using different kinds of application and Adobe Illustrator is one of the best options. This post is a collection of icon tutorials using Illustrator.

Some of these tutorials is for beginners and advance users of adobe illustrator. Here is 20 Amazing Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Icon.

1. Create a Vector Lock Icon Design

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a lock icon with some effects, opacity masks, gradients, and simple shapes in Illustrator. Many of these techniques can be applied easily to other icon designs.

2. How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

An Adobe illustrator tutorial where you will learn how to make a geeky, glasses icon. You’ll learn how to take creative license and create an illustration that uses a photo reference, but differs a bit in the final design.

Most Web Design Layouts are normally done in Photoshop and since its the most overused application on creating web layouts, The lessons collected here will show you how to create gorgeous and functional complete websites, blogs, layouts, nav menus and headers in Photoshop.

Here is a collection of 55 Web Design Layout & Menus Tutorials in Photoshop to teach you create your own layout for your website. Check them out, that will help you with designing a decent looking website. Some of them are really good!

Twitter has become so widely adopted that as a researcher you can find very useful info in real time. And fortunately, technology and design are two very popular subjects in Twitter. For this article, I selected a group of 20 great Twitter accounts you should follow to be up to date, and in contact, with top quality Photoshop, and Design informational sources.

Development01 Network: @development01

I will start with my own Twitter account. The Development01 Network is a group of sites that I own and manage myself. The most important of those sites are Photoshop Roadmap and Creative Closeup. In my Twitter account I tweet everyday about Photoshop tutorials and design resources. From time to time I engage on certain conversations, but mostly I provide useful and interesting links.