Icon-A-Day, Icon # 58, URL History Folder

Back into the folders.

Published on February 27, 2005 By mormegil In Icons

A Icon a day Keeps the Creative

Icon 58 (URL History Folder) Today we will start back up on the folders. In the process we will make a clock that we can use in several other places in our Icon Pack. Here we go. So with no further ado, I give you the URL History folder.
Step 1: We will start by copying the Web Folder, and removing the globe and cable.	Step 2: Now I use traditional drawing tools, a few circles and the Bezier Drawing tool to make a clock face.	Step 3: Now I group our clock together and lean it back with the perspective tool.
Step 4: I use the Interactive Transparency tool to make the body of the clock appear like glass.	Step 5: With a series of gradients I fill out the hands. I also give them some standard drop shadows to give them some depth.	Step 5: Now using our Shadow techniques I give the clock some shadows.
Step 6 Now I simply move the clock in front of the folder, and give it a new reflection.	Completed Icon Image.	Click here to download the finished icon.
Tomorrow we will move on further through the folder Icons. 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 All Images and Text in this tutorial are © Paul Boyer, and may not be reused without written permission.

Comments

Corky_O

on Feb 27, 2005

Cool one, Paul.

Question on the clock: Did you edit the individual circles with the transparency tool, or use the copy>crop method to create the depth? Or something else that I completely missed?

mormegil

on Feb 27, 2005

Yes there is one circle with two trimed copys that make up the edges of the glass.

Halluci

on Feb 27, 2005

Just a question: when are you going to make the recycle bin icons?

Corky_O

on Feb 27, 2005

Thanks.

mormegil

on Feb 27, 2005

Sorry, but I am saving the Recyeler for last.

Corky_O

on Feb 27, 2005

Okay, I have to admit I am failing the glass look trim procedure.

I got the sculpting, transparency texture fill stuff, but my copy trim method is severely lacking. I am offsetting one copy up and left, and one copy down and right, selecting all and then I get stuck because I am not finding a way to trim the excess edges outside the original. I keep resorting to copying and scaling, then aligning and sending to back, but the results are not quite right. I must be misunderstanding the procedure for this one.

Any chance of getting some step-by-step basics in one of the videos, or a text explanation. Sorry for the inconvenience?

mormegil

on Feb 28, 2005

I think i will end up doing a totorail on getting that "Silica" look in the next CorelDRAW For skinners. Sometime this week.

Corky_O

on Feb 28, 2005

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