Design your own Web 2.0 icons - part 2

This is a very important effect to give your icon a beautiful inner glow..Please follow the setting and values in the below given image. You may now close the options window

In step we are going to add highlights to the image. At first you need to take selection on of the circle and open a new layer (ctrl + shift + n). Set your colors to default (D) and flip the colour so that white become the foreground color (X). Go to the gradient tool option (G) and click on it ..You will find a white to transparent option select that…

Apply it on the top and bottom you should get this effect. Make sure you pull the gradient tool not too far.. Because it will cover the entire icon.

This is an easy step.I am going to select a webdings font the letter is “?” and colour the inside. You can do the same as give below..

This step we are going to add shadow manually to the content of the icon. You have to merge the font and the color layer and create a new layer with selection and fill this colour.