Icon-A-Day, Icon # 24, My Video Folder

Let us move away from globes and start a string of Folders.

Published on January 30, 2005 By mormegil In Icons

Icon 24 (My Video Folder) Now that I have had just about enough of Network icons I want to move on to something different. Today we will take a stab at the My Video folder.
Step 1: First thing first, we copy our Open Folder icon.	Step 2: Now using a bunch of Rectangles I make myself a section of film.	Step 3: I combine the small rectangles and together with the big background to make our sprocket holes. Then I take my big rectangles, and Trim the background. This gives us our black film area, then I move my big rectangles up to make the "picture" section of the film.
Step 4: Now I have my piece of film. I make it a group. Then I use the Envelope tool to distort the film, so it looks more realistic.	Step 5: I ungroup the piece of film and give the black portion of the film a gradient of black, dark red, and dark blue. I fill the center of the film with a cloud fractal. I also make the center portions slightly transparent.	Step 6: Using the Contour tool I inline the Black portion of the film and give it some glare. I do the same with the center of the film. For more on making Glare check out the Gloss 101 Video.
Step 7: Now I want a film reel to be leaning on the folder, so I use the circle tool to make a 2d reel and Combine it into one shape.	Step 8: I take the Perspective tool, and distort the reel till it looks right. Then once again I copy the new reel and shrink it and offset it a bit to make the back of our reel.	Step 9: Using the Circle tool and a the Spiral tool I make some film to go inside our real. I use the perspective tool to distort it a bit to fit inside properly.
Step 10: I use the Contour tool to create a few inside lines that I can duplicate a few times to make a bit of groove on our reel. I also fill all our shapes in the real with some gradient fills.	Step 11: Using the Techniques from Reflection 101 and Drop Shadows 101 I make some shadow and reflection for the reel and the folder.	Finished Icon Image
Click here to download the finished icon.
Moving on now I think we shall do the My Picture folder tomorrow. So check back in then. Read the other Icon-A-Day Articles: Icon # 1, Icon # 2, Icon #3, Icon # 4, Icon #5, Icon # 6, Icon # 7, Icon # 8, Icon # 9, Icon #10, Icon # 11. Icon 12 & 13, Icon # 14, Icon # 15, Icon # 16, Icon #17, Icon #18, Icon # 19, Icon #20, Icon # 21, Icon # 22. Icon #22. CorelDRAW for Skinners. Part 1: Mesh Tool 101 & Gloss 101 Part 2: Drop Shadows 101 & Reflections 101 Part 3: Part 3: Exporting 101, Contour & Line 101 And don't forget to check for all the Icon-A-Day icons as they get made, in the Miscellaneous Icons Gallery at Wincustomize.com

Comments

Corky_O

on Jan 30, 2005

Great videos and icon, Paul.

Definitely feel like I am building a little resource treasure to learn tool and technique basics, while allowing me to figure some things out as I use them.

Question:

You may cover this in the layers video, but in the export video you mentioned that the 1.28 x 1.28 box designating the icon boundries was set to some sort of layer. Could you clarify that one?

Another question would be (if I am not imposing); "Is that a personal WB that you are using in these videos, or is it available somewhere"? It looks very functional from the what I can see.

Thanks again, Teach.

47songs

on Jan 30, 2005

WOW again!! It's all way over my head, but I love every minute of it!! I get a kick out of the videos when you (Paul) say that you're going to do something "quickly." Hehe! It takes me days to do what you do "quickly!" Hehehehe!

I sincerely appreciate all the effort you put into these tutorials. But thank goodness they are here on file and I can go through them at my own slow pace! Heh!

47songs

on Jan 30, 2005

For heavens sake! Can you do a tutorial on how to not double post?

RPGFX

on Jan 30, 2005

Absolutely unreal. Go from us... get paid for this!

mormegil

on Jan 30, 2005

That is a windowblinds skin that I am working on to go with the Core DesktopX stuff. Its only about 25% done but i will post it when it is.
Aslo, I will cover the whay the guides are done in next weeks Corel For skinners.

Corky_O

on Jan 30, 2005

Thanks.

I am happy to purchase any of your works (already have Oxidized suite, Utopia Pack, and Orion Pack), and to support in any way that is fair compensation for the tutorials.

-OZZY-

on Jan 31, 2005

mormegil

on Jan 31, 2005

Thanks Corky, its Projects like those that make Projects like this posible.

voo

on Feb 02, 2005

This is one stunning icon. Outstanding detail on the close up for Step10. Fantastic stuff!

sssnake

on Feb 02, 2005

Like Ozzy said -

The previous icons were great, too, but now...

Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:

Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums.
Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
It's simple, and FREE!