Icon-A-Day, Icon # 46, The Desktop
This one everyone sees, but not many use.
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| 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. .jpg) |
Step 2: Now using more rectangles I use the Mesh Fill tool to make some corner covers for our desktop. .jpg) |
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. .jpg) |
| Step 4: Now I give desktop and top two corners some gloss, and make a simple shadow off the entire thing. .jpg) |
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. .jpg) |
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. .jpg) |
Finished Icon Image.jpg) |
SS.jpg){kind=icon} Click here to download the finished icon. | |
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Join us tomorrow as we dive back into the file icons. | ||
