Icon-A-Day, Icon # 42, The Default Document

almost forgot this one.

Published on February 13, 2005 By mormegil In Icons

Icon 42 (Default Document) I was planning on doing the My Documents folder today, but once I sat down to do it, I came to the realization that I did not have a Default Document icon. This may seem like nothing; we have the default file, the Word Document, assorted Music formats and so on. You see the problem is this: I use the Default Document icon a lot; I use it in several folder icons and as the base for several more file types. We have already more or less used it when making the DOC file icon. How's that? How can we have used it already, when it is not done? Well it seems we may have already made it - kind of. Let me explain....
Step 1: I have what is more or less our Default Document file in our Doc File, so we start by copying it.	Step 2: I simply remove the Word Logo, as well as the DOC extension. This icon will end up being used for any document windows does not have an icon assigned for, so we have to leave the extension blank.	Step 3: Now I want to change the title background color, I decided to do a Dark Grey, but as you can see in the last step today, I changed my mind and made it the same color as the default file title. I think we will use this for all the system file icons.
Step 4: Now I need to give it a new reflection so I do that. Straight down to go with the new style of reflections. (Note to self, fix reflections on earlier File icons.)	Step 5: Now I throw a box with some different colors behind the file, to make sure that it looks ok on different color backgrounds.	Finished Icon Image.
Click here to download the finished icon.
It may seem a bit odd to spend an entire tutorial doing such minor changes to an existing icon, but The Default Document needs to be simple, and generic, and that I think is what we have here. Tune in tomorrow for a Valentine's day treat, as we do the Favorites folder. Read the other Icon-A-Day Articles: (Icon-A-Day Index) Check out the CorelDRAW for Skinner Index, for links to all the related Video Tutorials. 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 Feb 13, 2005

Nice stuff, Paul.

The videos were very helpful. I feel quite a bit more at home now because I understand the Adobe layer system and can use that knowledge to help in CorelDRAW12.

Also, yes please to an advanced mesh fill video lesson.

Thank you, Teach.

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