Icon 48 - 49 (Application & BAT Files)
Over the next few days I would like to polish off most of the remaining default icons supported in a standard icon pack. Today we will take care of two of them.
Yesterday we did the INI file, and in the process we created a gear that is leaning on a file; today we will put that to good use.
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Step 1a:
First I copy our INI File from yesterday. I Nudge the gear out of my way, delete the text copy and lines from the page, and change the Title to BAT.
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Step 2a:
Now I change some colors. I am going to make the page Black for these two icons. To make them look more "Command Prompt-ish". I also paste some text in. In this case it is a copy of an Autoexec.bat file I found on the Internet. (So very retro).
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Step 3a:
Now I Nudge our gear back in place. Since I have not moved the file and I have my Nudge set up the way I showed in the "Setup" Video, I know it is exactly in the right place. So I am done with that.
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Step 4a:
Now using our Reflection Technique we give the and page gear a new shadow.
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Step 5a:
Since this is a Bat file it is more or less just text, so I want it to reflect that it is editable. I copy our pen from the My Documents folder and place it in front of our new icon.
Just to make it stand out a bit more I use the Mesh Tool to go in and edit its color, making it Blue.
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Finished Icon Image
Note: As you can see I changed my mind, as I often do, about the color of the title bar. I changed it to the color I have been using for the System File icons.
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Step 1b:
Now for the next icon we copy the Bat file we just made. Nudge the gear off, change the title to C:\, as well as fill the page with Some 1's and 0's to indicate that it is a binary, or compiled file.
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Step 2b:
Now as before I simply Nudge the gear back in place.
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Step 3b:
As Above I give our new icon a new Reflection using our Reflection Techniques
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Finished Icon Image.
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Click here to download the finished icon. |
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I think tomorrow I will stay in the realm of File icons. Now I'm off to do this weeks CorelDRAW for Skinners.
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
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