Icon-A-Day, Icon # 58, URL History Folder
Back into the folders.
Sunday, February 27, 2005 by mormegil | Discussion: Icons
| Icon 58 (URL History Folder) Today we will start back up on the folders. In the process we will make a clock that we can use in several other places in our Icon Pack. Here we go. So with no further ado, I give you the URL History folder. |
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We will start by copying the Web Folder, and removing the globe and cable. .jpg) |
Step 2: Now I use traditional drawing tools, a few circles and the Bezier Drawing tool to make a clock face. .jpg) |
Step 3: Now I group our clock together and lean it back with the perspective tool. .jpg) |
| Step 4: I use the Interactive Transparency tool to make the body of the clock appear like glass. .jpg) |
Step 5: With a series of gradients I fill out the hands. I also give them some standard drop shadows to give them some depth. .jpg) |
Step 5: Now using our Shadow techniques I give the clock some shadows. .jpg) |
| Step 6 Now I simply move the clock in front of the folder, and give it a new reflection. .jpg) |
Completed Icon Image. |
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Tomorrow we will move on further through the folder
Icons. |
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mormegil
Reply #2 Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:13 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:13 PM
Yes there is one circle with two trimed copys that make up the edges of the glass.
Halluci
Reply #3 Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:04 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:04 PM
Just a question: when are you going to make the recycle bin icons?
Corky_O
Reply #6 Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:50 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:50 PM
Okay, I have to admit I am failing the glass look trim procedure.
I got the sculpting, transparency texture fill stuff, but my copy trim method is severely lacking. I am offsetting one copy up and left, and one copy down and right, selecting all and then I get stuck because I am not finding a way to trim the excess edges outside the original. I keep resorting to copying and scaling, then aligning and sending to back, but the results are not quite right. I must be misunderstanding the procedure for this one.
Any chance of getting some step-by-step basics in one of the videos, or a text explanation. Sorry for the inconvenience?
I got the sculpting, transparency texture fill stuff, but my copy trim method is severely lacking. I am offsetting one copy up and left, and one copy down and right, selecting all and then I get stuck because I am not finding a way to trim the excess edges outside the original. I keep resorting to copying and scaling, then aligning and sending to back, but the results are not quite right. I must be misunderstanding the procedure for this one.
Any chance of getting some step-by-step basics in one of the videos, or a text explanation. Sorry for the inconvenience?
mormegil
Reply #7 Monday, February 28, 2005 6:57 AM
Reply #7 Monday, February 28, 2005 6:57 AM
I think i will end up doing a totorail on getting that "Silica" look in the next CorelDRAW For skinners. Sometime this week.
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Reply #1 Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:02 PM
Question on the clock: Did you edit the individual circles with the transparency tool, or use the copy>crop method to create the depth? Or something else that I completely missed?