Old techniques pay off again.
A Icon a day Keeps the Creative
Icon 35 (WAV File)
I don't want to get to the end of this series of tutorials and only have
File icons to do; I think we would end up pretty board. Yesterday we did
the JPG file, today I want to do another, this time the Wave file. This
should be pretty easy since we have a few conventions already set up
when it comes to music and media files. Mostly from the
MIDI file, way back at Icon #6. Like I said, this one will be easy.
So I am going to spend a little more time explaining some of the simpler
techniques.
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Step 1:
First thing we do is make a copy of our
MIDI file.
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Step 2:
Now I move the note, and its shadows and reflections and move it aside
for the moment. I change the tile to WAV. and then I place a Black
Transparent Box over the bottom of our file. Making sure our glare gets
placed back on top.
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Step 3:
Now we will use one of the oldest techniques in the Graphics world to
make a "Neon" like wave form. I start by drawing the form with the line
tool and give it a thin green Outline.
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Step 4:
Now I copy my existing Wave form, and give it a thicker outline in a
darker green and place it behind our original.
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Step 5:
Now we select both of our lines and blend them together with the Blend
Effect.
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Step 6:
Just to fancy up our wave a bit, I give it a green halo, by pulling a
drop shadow off it, and setting it to green.
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Step 7:
Now I go ahead and convert our completed wave form to a bitmap and Crop it down
to fit in the black portion of our file.
At this point I make a quick reflection of our file using the Reflection
Techniques.
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Step 8:
The last step is to move our Note and its shadows and reflections back
into place in front of the file.
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Finished Icon image
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Click here to download the finished icon. |
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You will note, I have begun to make the reflections go
straight down from the file. I realized that the having it slant off like
the shadow looked pretty bad, and was somewhat unrealistic, so I decided
to make the change. I will have to fix all File icons we have done
already, but it should be pretty simple. You can keep the existing ones
as "Originals" if you want.
Tomorrow I am thinking we should do another File icon.
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(Icon-A-Day Index)
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CorelDRAW for Skinner Index, for links to all the related Video
Tutorials.
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in the Miscellaneous
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