Icon-A-Day 2.0, Day 3. Seems like I've done this before.
Thursday, August 7, 2008 by mormegil | Discussion: OS Customization
The first Icon in the original Icon-A-Day series was the Closed Folder. I have to admit that I was not quite sure what I was getting into at the time. This time I do, so we will begin once again at the beginning, with the Closed Folder. | ||||||||||
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The funny thing about the Closed Folder icon is that by default, in Vista it is no longer closed, it is just an open, empty folder. I must admit that I kind of like this convention, but if you have a logo or something you want to showcase you lose one of the most often seen blank surfaces in Windows. So in icons, like the My Colors NBA Icons that I did last year, I made the folders completely closed. To further complicate things, in Vista we have Live Folders, so unless a folder is empty, you pretty much never see the default Closed Folder anymore. It is still seen in the tree view in Explorer, but only at 16x16. I want to keep more or less the same feeling that we had in the original Icon-A-Day icons; the same Sci-Fi brushed metal finish, but we have to make sure that they fit into the new Vista scheme of things. What all this means is that the Closed Folder will more or less be our blueprint for the Live Folder icons that we will be tackling on Day 5. One Last Important Note: I am going to jump right into these tutorials where we left off, in that I will be assuming people have seen the original series. These tutorials are more to help people understand how to create high quality icons, not a "How to use CorelDRAW" tutorial set. I have one of those, it is called CorelDRAW for Skinners and even though it is also a few years old, it you can use it to better understand some of the terms I toss around. I will be updating it as well, as this project picks up steam. But in the mean time I will be keeping some of the technical aspects pretty basic. If you have CorelDRAW questions, or questions about my techniques, please ask in the comments and I will try and answer; at the least it will give me ideas for new CorelDRAW for Skinners videos. With that said, lets get this party started. | ||||||||||
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Wrap Up: As I get back into the flow in the creation of these tutorials, and as I get to know who is reading them, and what they are interested in hearing about, I should be able to streamline. But I seems kind of fitting that our 2.0 Closed Folder took the same amount of steps as the original. Once again, I welcome feedback. As a mater of fact I am relying on it, so please comment. Join me tomorrow as we make our new Open Folder icons. | ||||||||||
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Reply #10 Thursday, August 7, 2008 5:07 PM
However That is the style of the gloss that we are using thought the pack, in order to get that edge to pop like that all the way down I would have to make the gloss run the legth of the folder, or make a slightly lighter gloss that did, this would probobly work, but would would not match the rest of the pack.
Thanks fo the feedback though. Maby I can get it into the USER Folders, which will be entirely new.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, August 6, 2008 8:53 PM