Glass Icons

Glass icons can be viewed as 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 examples below - 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 are frequently 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 in addition you can find a great amount of tutorials on the internet teaching how to do this.

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

The pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the websites playful and attracts a lot of people. In the Internet sources you may find many tutorials concerning the ways of creating such neat web icons.

Creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the the top software 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. A huge amount of the great web icons designs were created with a help of this software. The most important 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. With a help of the "eraser" tool it will be possible 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 web-site designers should use this effect carefully and be aware that glass-fever may look ridiculous . Keep in mind glass icons should be used with taste so that the website style could remain professional and reserved.