Icon-A-Day, Icon # 46, The Desktop

This one everyone sees, but not many use.

Thursday, February 17, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons

Icon 46 (Desktop)

This is one of those icons that everyone looks at in your icon pack, but is actually rarely seen in use. Mostly as a 16x16 in your quick launch bar, but never the less I like to spend a little time on it, an make sure it looks good.
Since the Desktop is essentially just a special kind of folder, I am going to use the styles we are using for the folders, so that at least on some level they match.
 
Step 1:

I start by using the mesh fill and some rectangles, to make the basic shapes of the desktop.
 Step 2:

Now using more rectangles I use the Mesh Fill tool to make some corner covers for our desktop.

 Step 3:

To make it match the folders I make the corners black, and I give the Main desktop a nice Brush texture using our transparency 102 techniques.
 
Step 4:

Now I give desktop and top two corners some gloss, and make a simple shadow off the entire thing.
 Step 5:

Now I copy the File icon off the My Documents folder, and rotate it slightly so it looks like it is sitting on our desktop. I also make a copy and change the title bar to blue. To polish them off I give both the files a slight drop shadow.

 Step 6:

last I make a copy of our pen from the my documents folder, and set it in front of our almost completed icon.

Finished Icon Image


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2 Reply 13 Referrals
Corky_O
Reply #1 Friday, February 18, 2005 7:14 AM
Thank you, Paul.

ETrain
Reply #2 Friday, February 18, 2005 3:45 PM
Mormegil,

I just "stumbled" onto your cursors of the day - they are incredible. Keep up the good work and thank you!

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