Step 1: 
We can start once again by grabbing our Wrapper folder, and our original Music folder.

Then we remove the assets that we will not be able to use.
  

Step 2:  
I keep all the notes and the CDs, though I don't know if we will be able to use them. I mostly want to be able to use them to copy effects and fills from them, while we create our new assets.

That said, I quickly create new ones as simple objects, using circles and boxes.

When I have the shapes, I weld the notes together. I also combine the circles together, creating an inner and outer ring for our disk.

Step 3: 
Before I go any further, I group our two disk circles together, so that I can apply a perspective to them.

Now I use the Perspective tool to quickly give our new notes new perspectives. I also do the disk at this point. 

 
Now it looks like we won't have enough room to get our green note in without crowding the composition. This frees us up to move on to our fills. We will start with the CD.

Step 4:  
I give the main body of the CD a nice Conical Fill, copying the colors from our original CD. Then I give the center ring a gray to white liner gradation.

I give the same fills to the rear disk, however when I'm done I tint them 2 clicks black, to darken them up.

Then I copy both rings one more time, move them behind the originals, and over to the right a bit, to create the illusion of thickness. I also tint these a little darker.

Step 5:
Now we need to make the inner rings of the disks transparent, which we do using the Interactive Transparency tool, and give them a liner transparency.

At this point we need to use our front circle to crop the copy of it we made in step 4, so we can have a lip yet be able to see through the "Glass." We need to do this twice, once for the inner lip, and once for the outer lip. 

We do the same thing for the rear disk.

 

Step 6:
Before we give the discs gloss or shadows, we will go ahead and move on to the music notes.
 
We will be doing them with mesh fills and blend groups. We start with the blend. First I draw a fresh ellipse over the bulbs of our notes. Then I copy that ellipse and make a smaller version, down toward the bottom of the other. We make the larger one the same color as our note, and the smaller one a lighter blue.



Now we just blend the two ellipses together.

Step 7: 
Next we draw two new mesh rectangles to give that glossy look to the rest of the note.



When we are done with the blue note we do the same thing on the new red note.
 

Step 8:  
Now we need to go through all of our new shapes and create new gloss, which we do this with our standard gloss technique. We have to be careful to crop some of the gloss on the Wrapper folder where it would be occluded by our new objects.

Step 7: 
Once again our last step is the Shadows and Reflections. These are a bit more difficult than normal, because we have a lot going on, and several reflective surfaces to keep in mind. See shadow and reflection techniques for more.  

Finished Icon:
Here we have it, the new Music folder. I think it stands up well when compared to our original. 

Step 1:
We start my making a copy of our Downloads folder from Day 11.

 
  

Step 2:  
Now we simply delete the download arrow, the shadows, and the gloss that we created for it. 

While we are poking around, we go ahead and change our background rectangle to blue.

Step 3:
Now we we pick up pretty much exactly where we were in yesterdays step 4. 

We draw a new links arrow, and give it a contour -remember to break the contour group apart - and regroup our the two objects together again.

 

Step 4:  
We take our group and give it some perspective with  the Perspective tool.

Step 5:
Now we give it our poor mans bevel (from yesterdays step 6).

Step 6:
Now we give our new interior arrow the inner glow. This will be exactly the same as yesterdays step 7, the only thing different is that we are using blues instead of greens.

Step 7: 
We finish up with the same steps as yesterday. Give it new gloss, then we polish it off with the classic shadow and reflection techniques. 

 

Finished Icon:   
Sadly we this was our only remaining super simple User folder icon, but here it is: the Links folder.  

Step 1:   
Once again we will start by gathering our ingredients, in this case we only have two, our Wrapper folder, and the Log Off Icon, #73.

Then we get rid of the elements we are not going to be using. However take not of the key, we will be using the same techniques to create a new Downloads arrow.

    

Step 2:  
Now, sadly, we need to flip our glass plate, since it does not look very fitting when I try and place it in the folder. This is going to require us to do some tweaks to the lighting and perspective.







 
  

Step 3:  
Now we go in and do our tweak. I start by skewing the glass square up a bit, and then skewing the shadow down a bit.

Next we tweek the top left corner up a bit, as well as the blue rectangle, since our perspective does not match exactly.

I strongly recommend looking at the original post #32, and #73. The techniques used to do the glass, are exactly the same as we will use today.

 

Step 4:  
Now, for some reason, I've always associated the downloads arrow with green, so I will be doing a new green arrow. Before I do this I use the mesh fill to change the blue rectangle to green.

Then I simply draw a nice, new, flat 2D arrow. Once I am happy with our arrow, I give the arrow a small inside contour with the contour tool.

When we have our contour, we break the contour apart and then re-group the two objects, the arrow and its outline.

Step 5:
Now we will use the Perspective tool to adjust our arrow to were it looks correct; sitting out a bit in front of our glass plate. We will be giving it bit of an extrusion, so we have to make sure we leave room for that.



Now we bust out one of the classics, what I like to call a "poor mans bevel," and extrusion.

Step 6:
I simply ungroup or new arrow, shift the green a bit down and to the left. Then I copy the gray area, and shift it up and to the right, and drop it back behind the original. Then with the Shape tool I adjust the corners so they meet up.

With the Interactive Fill tool, I give our bevel a nice gradient fill and the extrusion, another darker and more elaborate fill.

Step 7:
Next we use another classic technique; I give our arrow a gradient fill from green to darker green. With the Contour tool do a 20 step inside contour with a fill from dark green to light green. This gives us that inner glow, that are the hallmark of the Icon-A-Day 1.0 icons.

 

Step 8:
With that done, we are back to the basics. We need to create some gloss for our arrow, and tweak the gloss on the glass plate behind it.



 

Step 9: 
I am going to combine our last 3 steps together, because they will be the same for the rest of the User folders. You can check out day 9 and 10 for more information.

To polish things off we create a reflection for the front of the Wrapper. Once we have that we are free to use our shadow and reflection techniques.

 

Finished Icon:  
This gives us our new Downloads folder, and will provide us several new assets for later in the project.
 

Step 1:   
Again we will start with our Wrapper folder from day 8.  I will also grab the original 1.0 My Pictures folder #25, and the Video Clip file # 54.

Once I have these elements gathered together, I delete the elements I don't need. 



  
   

Step 2:  
Now, I have chosen to create a brand-new photo rather than attempt to use one of our existing items. This is because I want something a bit higher resolution, and I want to be able to do a nice perspective.  

So the first thing I do is use a Mesh Rectangle to draw in the basic shape of my new image. Once I have this I create some additional mesh nodes to give it some depth and definition.
  

Step 3: 
Next I import in my new picture, and using the Bitmap 3D Effects Perspective tool, I give it a bit of perspective to make sure it fits. Then I crop it down to fit on my photo back. 

I also want their to be a black outline around the image, so using the Bezier tool I draw a matching rectangle behind it. 
 

Step 4:  
I know it is a bit old fashion, but to make sure that our new Photo matches our originals, I want to go through and add some corner clips.

I do this with four small mesh fill objects. You could probably do this just as well with some basic shapes, but I am partial to the Mesh tool. 

 Step 5: 
We still need to add gloss to our photo, but we will do it later. For now we will move on to our Video file. 

We will want to change the content of the frames of our video file, so I remove the texture fill we have now. Then I group the file together and with the Envelope tool, and give it a bit more of a film-like look.   

Step 6: 
Now that we have our film in place, I want to change the image on the film like I did the photo, so I import in another image. I place this behind the cells of our film, and crop it and skew it until it looks ok.

Then I do this again for the top and bottom frames.  

Step 8: 
Now I grab all three of these images and convert them to one bitmap. Once this is done, I use the Interactive Transparency tool to give the images some translucency.

Step 9:
Now, like yesterday, we will need make copies of our new assets and convert them to bitmaps for the reflection on the Wrapper. Once I have these in place, I convert them both into a singe bitmap, and crop them.

Finally I fade them out with the Interactive Transparency tool.

Step 10:
Now we can finally move our paint brush back into the composition. With a bit of tweaking with the shape tool it seems to fit right in.

Step 11:
Now that we have all of our assets in place, we need to go through and touch up our gloss. This is relatively simple, but is very important in giving the icon continuity within the set.

Step 12: 
Our lasts two steps, as usual, are to create the shadows and reflections. 
Don't forget that you can learn more about this over at my CorelDRAW for Skinners tutorials.

Finished Icon: 
Our finished Pictures folder looks pretty good, even if that silly film strip would not leave us alone.

Step 1:   
We start as we have become accustomed, by gathering the ingredients that we have already created. In this case we need our Wrapper icon from Day 8, the Favorites folder #43, and the HTML Document #16 from Icon-A-Day 1.0.

Once I have these elements gathered together, I delete the elements I don't need.



 
   

Step 2:  
Now we start by placing our HTML file inside our Wrapper folder. Once it is in place, we give it some perspective with the Perspective Tool.

At this point we run into a minor problem. The blue bar on the top of this icon is a Mesh Fill, and a mesh can not be given perspective. So I simply clear the Mesh Fill, and convert it to a basic Flood Fill. This is a bit flatter, but we can fix it later. Now we group the file together, and give it that perspective.
 

Step 3:
Now we need put put our heart in the right place (See? I'm funny). I was a bit concerned about this, but now that I see it, I think the existing "lean," will work as well, if not better, with the Wrapper folder as it did with the original folders.



 

Step 4: 
Now we come to the tedious part. We need to go through and polish up our assembled elements to make sure that they all go together.

A: Tweak the file's edge so it has a return.
B. Tweak the gloss on the heart, the file, and the back of the Wrapper to match the new lighting convention. 
C: We need to fix our former mesh fill. In this case I just change it to a gradient, from a darker to lighter blue. 

  

 Step 5:
Now we need to go through and update our shadows and reflections. First the reflections. The reflection on the "floor" is done pretty much the same way we have been doing them for the last 5 days.

However we will need to do a few special things for the heart. I start by copying the heart and converting it to an RGB bitmap. Then I use the pick tool to size and skew it into the position that its reflection would take in the glass of the Wrapper. 

Step 6:
Once I have my bitmap heart in place, I use the shape tool to crop it down, then I fade it out with the Interactive Transparency tool.

Now that we have our crazy heart reflection established, I can use our standard reflection techniques to create our "floor" reflection.

Step 7:
Our last step will be to do our shadows. I do this the same way as before; the only reason I am doing it from scratch is that the HTML file and the heart have completely changed the shadows basic shape.

Finished Icon:
Now we have the first of our new User folders. This will serve as a template for the next week or so, as we run through the rest. 

Step 1:  
Because the Wrapper will need to contain several different types of sub-icons - folders, documents, music, etc. - I am going to begin by making a copy of my Open folder icon from last week and use it as a guide for my shapes. 

Like in Day 3, we will start with two rectangular mesh fills.
  

Step 2: 
Once I have my shapes in position, I can delete the Open folder assets and begin to sculpt my meshes into the shape I want our Wrapper to be.





 

Step 3:
Now unlike our folder we want the bulk of our Wrapper to be glass, so I primarily use white and black in my fills. I then use the Interactive Transparency tool to make them translucent. This will make everything wash out a bit, but we will get our definition back in a few steps, with gloss and shadows.

Step 4:
Now we dont just want to copy the teal Wrappers from Vista, we want to make our own. In order to change things up a bit, we will create a brushed metal edge on the top and bottom of our wrapper. This is done more or less the same as we made the main portion of the Wrapper, except this time we give our shapes the more "tooled" look of our folders.  
  

 Step 5:
Once we have our metal bands, we need to bring in some gloss to sell the glass look, and to bring some definition to our shapes. We have to be careful not to make the gloss too bright, however, since these Wrappers will be going around other icons in the future.

Step 6:
Now we need to re-establish our shadows. These are a bit more touchy than in the last few icons, because the bulk of our Wrapper icon is transparent.
As we bring the shadows in you will notice that it goes a long way in selling the glass feeling.

Step 7:
Our last step, as is often the case, is to do our reflection. I do this more or less the same way as in our previous icons, but like the shadows it is a bit more touchy do to the transparency.

Finished Icon:
Here we have our finished Wrapper icon.
I will be including it, and 2 Pings, a front and a back in today's zip, so that people will be able to create their own matching User folder icon if they choose.