Icon 11 (CD Drive)
Once more I am pushing the end of the day, but I have just
finished icon #11, and uploaded all of the tutorial images. The hardest
part of today's icon is the step by step. As I did this icon I keep
saying to myself, "how the hell am I going to explain this?" Well let's
see if I can pull it off.
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Step 1:
First I use some rectangles and a circle, and tweak them into a general
outline of my CD icon. I wanted to show you can do cool stuff in Corel
without the Mesh tool, so I am going to do this one with mostly
Gradients, and Transparences.
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Step 2:
First things first; I copy my fill from the other CD icons I have done,
and apply it to my Circle. Then I Draw up a few extra shapes, all
rectangles, and form up the back of out CD Tray.
Then I copy the back of the tray, and Trim it with the CD.
Then I give that a grey fill and using the Interactive Transparency tool
apply a Cement Texture to it giving us some grit in the back. of the
tray.
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Step 3:
Using white and black circles that have been set to 50% Transparency, I
make some grooves in the plastic in the disk.
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Step 4:
Once I am happy with the back of the tray, I give it a Shadow and a
Reflection using the same techniques as in the prior icons.
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Step 5
Now for the front of the tray. The main body of the tray is just a
rectangle that I have trimmed down a bit, and given a white fill, and an
Interactive Transparency.
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Step 6:
Now I give the front of the tray some detail with White & Black,
transparent rectangles.
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Step 7:
To finish it off, so that the face of the tray is visible, I make a copy
of the main face again. Make it a bit less transparent and send it to
the back.
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Finished Icon Image.
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Download Finished Icon Here |
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I know that this tutorial may seem to need more
explanations, but the truth is that it all boils down to a lot of
Gradient filled boxes and Transparent boxes. I will try and do a video
on this technique as soon as possible.
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.
CorelDRAW for Skinners videos:
Mesh Fill 101,
Gloss 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 |