Icon-A-Day, Icons #28, 29 & 30, The Shared Folders

Three for the price of One.

Published on February 3, 2005 By mormegil In Icons

Icon 27, 28 & 29 (Shared Folders) Today we will use several elements that we did over the last few tutorials. Lets put together the "Shared Folders", My Video, My Music & My Pictures.
Step 1a: For these icons we will re-use the little guys we made yesterday, as well as our My Video, My Music, and My Pictures Folders.	Step 2a: The Shared Video Folder is going to be easiest, I simply move the reel to the inside of the folder and give it a standard drop shadow.	Step 3a: I move the folder front back in place, and put a copy of the Admin overlay on top. Finished Icon Image
Step 1b: For the Shared Music folder I just delete the Red note, form the My Music Folder, and place the Blue notes inside the folder. I also make the Green note bigger.	Step 2b: I copy our Admin Overlay over the folder and tweak the reflection with the Node Edit tool to make sure it looks right. I also Tweak the size and skew of the Green note, to make sure it looks good.	Finished Icon Image
Step 1c: For the Shared Pictures folder I rotate the paint brush and lay it down in front of the folder. I also delete the originals reflection and paint stroke.	Step 2c: I use the mesh fill tool to make a new brush tip.	Step 3c: Now I adjust the glare bitmap a bit with the Node Edit tool to polish it off.
Finished Icon Image	Click here to download the finished icon.
There you go, 3 for the price of 1. Tomorrow we will move further into the folder icons. 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, Icon # 23, Icon # 24. Icon #25, Icon # 26, Icon # 26. 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

mormegil

on Feb 03, 2005

There seams to be a bug in the Upload option at WC right now. I will post the Icon in the Misc Icons Gallery as soon as I can get it posted.
Here is a temporary link untill then. http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/viewskin.aspx?SID=83&skinid=165&libid=39&UID=299

Corky_O

on Feb 04, 2005

Thanks for the temporary link, and the great daily tutorial.

I ran into the bug too, trying to upload some icons I made with Photoshop (until I learn CorelDRAW, which seems a bit more in line with my style for the making of icons and other graphics).

Hope to upload a package sometime this year made completely in CorelDRAW, maybe even a WB if I get the hang of it.

Thanks, Teach.

sssnake

on Feb 04, 2005

It's really much better putting very similar themes into one tutorial. It keeps from wasting time on (although very, very good) tutorials without new elements - it was useful in the beginning but I think now many of us know enough about putting old pieces up. And, this also a great tutorial, keep making such tutorials (and even better if possible

Corky_O

on Feb 04, 2005

BustinABogie

on Feb 04, 2005

Dammit..you go man!!!

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