Glass Icons Tips And Tricks

Glass web icons can be considered an independent icon style.Nevertheless it is logical to assume that glass style is just one of the types of the shiny, glossy design.

Other types of the glossy web icons design that can be marked out:

• glass icons;
• metal icons;
• glass-metal icons;
• transparent icons.

Glossy icons can be aqua, crystal, plastic etc. and at the same time transparent and half-transparent.

Glass web icons are frequently depicted with reflecting. It is one of the standard features of the "Web 2.0" icons. You may find various tutorials on the web teaching to create vertical reflection effect for web icons.

It is the effect when icons are like images placed on a shiny, reflecting surface or tower above the water surface.

The crisp and pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the websites eye-catching and playful. If you wish to create such neat web icons it is simple to find hundreds of tutorials on the Internet.

Methods for easy and quick creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the best software program for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming steadily more and more flexible software for design. Originally it was rather an image editor and nowadays it enables to create almost all visual effects used for the graphic design. Plenty of the great web icons designs were made up of a help of this software program. The main feature of the latest Photoshop versions is the ability to combine pixel painting with vector tool for creating glass icons, buttons, characters etc.<\p>

The easiest way to design Glass icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image. By using the "eraser" tool you will be able to build an empty diagonal line through the image. You are supposed to proceed using eraser for making adjustments to the glass layer until the moment when the glass effect repeats the contour of the icon. It should kind of the glass haze in the opposite sides. After this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

Professional site designers should use this effect carefully and bear in mind that glass-fever may look ridiculous . Bear in mind glass icons should be combined with taste so that the website style could remain professional and reserved.