Types Of The Glossy Web Icons

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

The following - other types of the glossy web icons design can be marked out:

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

Transparent and half-transparent glossy icons can be aqua, crystal, plastic etc.

Glass web icons as well as other kinds of icons are usually depicted with reflecting. It is one of the standard features of the "Web 2.0" icons. Creation of vertical reflection effect for web icons is certainly simple furthermore you can find a great amount of tutorials on the web teaching how to do this.

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

Methods for fast and simple creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the number 1 software for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming more and more flexible and multitasking software for design. Originally it was rather an image editor and nowadays it allows to create almost all visual effects used for the graphic design. A great amount of the prominent web designers and illustrators create their great web icons designs with this software. 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 web icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image. By using the "eraser" tool you'll 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. As a result it should create a kind of the glass haze in the opposite sides. After this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

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