Types Of The Glossy Web Icons

Glass 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.

The examples below - other types of the glossy web icons design 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 as well as other kinds of icons are often 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 really simple moreover you can find a great amount of tutorials on the net instructing how to do this.

The crisp and pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the websites attractive and playful. If you wish to create such neat web icons you can easily find hundreds of tutorials on the Internet.

Tricks for easy and quick creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software program for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming more and more flexible and multitasking software for design. These days it allows to create almost all visual effects used for the graphic design. Plenty of the great web icons designs were created with a help of 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 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. The moment this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

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