Glass Web Icons As An Independent Icon Style

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.

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 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. You may find various tutorials on the internet teaching to make vertical reflection effect for web icons.

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

Creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the most well known 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 allows 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. The ability to combine pixel painting with vector tool for creating glass icons, buttons, characters etc. is the most important feature of the latest Photoshop versions.<\p>

The easiest way to design Glass 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. It should kind of the glass haze in the opposite sides. As soon as this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

Professional web-site designers should use this effect carefully and be aware that glass-fever may look ridiculous . Don't forget glass icons should be combined with taste so that the website style could remain professional and reserved.