Icon-A-Day, Icons #28, 29 & 30, The Shared Folders
Three for the price of One.
Thursday, February 3, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons
Icon 27, 28 & 29 (Shared Folders) Today we will use several elements that we did over the last few tutorials. Lets put together the "Shared Folders", My Video, My Music & My Pictures. | ||
Step 1a: For these icons we will re-use the little guys we made yesterday, as well as our My Video, My Music, and My Pictures Folders. ![]() |
Step 2a: The Shared Video Folder is going to be easiest, I simply move the reel to the inside of the folder and give it a standard drop shadow. ![]() |
Step 3a: I move the folder front back in place, and put a copy of the Admin overlay on top. Finished Icon Image ![]() |
Step 1b: For the Shared Music folder I just delete the Red note, form the My Music Folder, and place the Blue notes inside the folder. I also make the Green note bigger. ![]() |
Step 2b: I copy our Admin Overlay over the folder and tweak the reflection with the Node Edit tool to make sure it looks right. I also Tweak the size and skew of the Green note, to make sure it looks good. ![]() |
Finished Icon Image ![]() |
Step 1c: For the Shared Pictures folder I rotate the paint brush and lay it down in front of the folder. I also delete the originals reflection and paint stroke. ![]() |
Step 2c: I use the mesh fill tool to make a new brush tip. ![]() |
Step 3c: Now I adjust the glare bitmap a bit with the Node Edit tool to polish it off. ![]() |
Finished Icon Image![]() |
![]() Click here to download the finished icon. | |
There you go, 3 for the price of 1. Tomorrow we will move further into the folder icons. |
Reply #2 Friday, February 4, 2005 12:01 AM
I ran into the bug too, trying to upload some icons I made with Photoshop (until I learn CorelDRAW, which seems a bit more in line with my style for the making of icons and other graphics).
Hope to upload a package sometime this year made completely in CorelDRAW, maybe even a WB if I get the hang of it.
Thanks, Teach.

Reply #3 Friday, February 4, 2005 5:27 PM


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Reply #1 Thursday, February 3, 2005 9:58 PM
Here is a temporary link untill then. http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/viewskin.aspx?SID=83&skinid=165&libid=39&UID=299