In this tutorial we are going to create a simple 3D glowing world globe icon. This can then be applied to a logo or one color image instead of a map.
In Photoshop lets open up an 800×800px document. Our document doesn’t have to be huge because we are only making an icon.
Now we are going to create the basic shape for our icon. Click on the Ellipse tool and hold down Shift, click and drag a circle across the top half of the document. Holding down shift gives us a perfectly round circle.
If your colors are set at the default black and white, your circle probably came out black. We are going to change this to a blue to give us a base color to work with.