Glass Icons Tips And Tricks

Glass icons can be considered an independent icon style though it is logical to assume that glass style is just one of the types of the shiny, glossy design.

Other types of the glossy web icons design that can be marked out:

• glass icons;
• metal icons;
• glass-metal icons;
• transparent icons.

Transparent and half-transparent glossy icons can be aqua, crystal, plastic etc.

Glass icons as well as other types of icons are usually depicted with reflecting. It is one of the standard features of the "Web 2.0" icons. Creation of vertical reflection effect for web icons is really simple moreover you can find a great amount of tutorials on the web instructing how to do this.

The crisp and pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the website pages attractive and playful. In the Internet sources you may find numerous tutorials about the ways of creating such neat web icons.

Creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the most well known software program for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming more and more flexible and multitasking software for design. Nowadays it allows to create almost all visual effects used for the graphic design. Plenty of the great web icons designs were created with a help of this software program. The most important feature of the latest Photoshop versions is the ability to combine pixel painting with vector tool for creating glass icons, buttons, characters etc.<\p>

The easiest way to design Glass web icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image. By using the "eraser" tool it is possible to build an empty diagonal line through the image. You are supposed to proceed using eraser for making adjustments to the glass layer until the moment when the glass effect repeats the contour of the icon. It should kind of the glass haze in the opposite sides. The moment this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

Professional web designers should use this effect carefully and take into account that glass-fever may look ridiculous. Glass icons really should be used with taste so that the web site style could remain professional and reserved.