Icon-A-Day, Icon # 24, My Video Folder
Let us move away from globes and start a string of Folders.
Sunday, January 30, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons
| Icon 24 (My Video Folder) Now that I have had just about enough of Network icons I want to move on to something different. Today we will take a stab at the My Video folder. | ||
| Step 1: First thing first, we copy our Open Folder icon. .jpg) |
Step 2: Now using a bunch of Rectangles I make myself a section of film. .jpg) |
Step 3: I combine the small rectangles and together with the big background to make our sprocket holes. Then I take my big rectangles, and Trim the background. This gives us our black film area, then I move my big rectangles up to make the "picture" section of the film. .jpg) |
| Step 4: Now I have my piece of film. I make it a group. Then I use the Envelope tool to distort the film, so it looks more realistic. .jpg) |
Step 5: I ungroup the piece of film and give the black portion of the film a gradient of black, dark red, and dark blue. I fill the center of the film with a cloud fractal. I also make the center portions slightly transparent. .jpg) |
Step 6: Using the Contour tool I inline the Black portion of the film and give it some glare. I do the same with the center of the film. For more on making Glare check out the Gloss 101 Video. .jpg) |
| Step 7: Now I want a film reel to be leaning on the folder, so I use the circle tool to make a 2d reel and Combine it into one shape. .jpg) |
Step 8: I take the Perspective tool, and distort the reel till it looks right. Then once again I copy the new reel and shrink it and offset it a bit to make the back of our reel. .jpg) |
Step 9: Using the Circle tool and a the Spiral tool I make some film to go inside our real. I use the perspective tool to distort it a bit to fit inside properly.
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| Step 10: I use the Contour tool to create a few inside lines that I can duplicate a few times to make a bit of groove on our reel. I also fill all our shapes in the real with some gradient fills.
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Step 11: Using the Techniques from Reflection 101 and Drop Shadows 101 I make some shadow and reflection for the reel and the folder. .jpg) |
Finished Icon Image.jpg) |
SS.jpg){kind=icon} Click here to download the finished icon. | ||
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Moving on now I think we shall do the My Picture folder tomorrow. So check back in then. | ||
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Reply #2 Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:59 PM
I sincerely appreciate all the effort you put into these tutorials. But thank goodness they are here on file and I can go through them at my own slow pace! Heh!
Reply #3 Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:59 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:58 PM
That is a windowblinds skin that I am working on to go with the Core DesktopX stuff. Its only about 25% done but i will post it when it is.
Aslo, I will cover the whay the guides are done in next weeks Corel For skinners.
Reply #6 Sunday, January 30, 2005 11:49 PM
I am happy to purchase any of your works (already have Oxidized suite, Utopia Pack, and Orion Pack), and to support in any way that is fair compensation for the tutorials.
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Reply #9 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 7:58 AM
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 4:27 PM
The previous icons were great, too, but now... 
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Reply #1 Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:57 PM
Definitely feel like I am building a little resource treasure to learn tool and technique basics, while allowing me to figure some things out as I use them.
Question:
You may cover this in the layers video, but in the export video you mentioned that the 1.28 x 1.28 box designating the icon boundries was set to some sort of layer. Could you clarify that one?
Another question would be (if I am not imposing); "Is that a personal WB that you are using in these videos, or is it available somewhere"? It looks very functional from the what I can see.
Thanks again, Teach.