Icon-A-Day, Icons # 48 & # 49, BAT and Application Files
I like to have these two go hand in hand.
Saturday, February 19, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons
| Icon 48 - 49 (Application & BAT Files) Over the next few days I would like to polish off most of the remaining default icons supported in a standard icon pack. Today we will take care of two of them. Yesterday we did the INI file, and in the process we created a gear that is leaning on a file; today we will put that to good use. | ||
| Step 1a: First I copy our INI File from yesterday. I Nudge the gear out of my way, delete the text copy and lines from the page, and change the Title to BAT. .jpg) |
Step 2a: Now I change some colors. I am going to make the page Black for these two icons. To make them look more "Command Prompt-ish". I also paste some text in. In this case it is a copy of an Autoexec.bat file I found on the Internet. (So very retro). .jpg) |
Step 3a: Now I Nudge our gear back in place. Since I have not moved the file and I have my Nudge set up the way I showed in the "Setup" Video, I know it is exactly in the right place. So I am done with that. .jpg) |
| Step 4a: Now using our Reflection Technique we give the and page gear a new shadow. .jpg) |
Step 5a: Since this is a Bat file it is more or less just text, so I want it to reflect that it is editable. I copy our pen from the My Documents folder and place it in front of our new icon. Just to make it stand out a bit more I use the Mesh Tool to go in and edit its color, making it Blue. .jpg) |
Finished Icon Image Note: As you can see I changed my mind, as I often do, about the color of the title bar. I changed it to the color I have been using for the System File icons. .jpg) |
| Step 1b: Now for the next icon we copy the Bat file we just made. Nudge the gear off, change the title to C:\, as well as fill the page with Some 1's and 0's to indicate that it is a binary, or compiled file. .jpg) |
Step 2b: Now as before I simply Nudge the gear back in place. .jpg) |
Step 3b: As Above I give our new icon a new Reflection using our Reflection Techniques .jpg) |
Finished Icon Image..jpg) |
SS.jpg){kind=icon} Click here to download the finished icon. | |
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I think tomorrow I will stay in the realm of File icons. Now I'm off to do this weeks CorelDRAW for Skinners. | ||
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Reply #1 Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:36 PM
Thanks again, Paul.