Web Icon With Glass Effect As One Of The Types Of The Glossy-Styled Icon

Glass web 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 following - 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.

Also, there are partly glass and partly stained icons meaning the objects contain some glassy or stained elements.

Glass web 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 certainly simple in addition you can find a great amount of tutorials on the internet teaching how to do this.

The crisp and pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the website pages interesting and playful. In the Internet sources you may find many tutorials concerning the ways of creating such neat web icons.

Tips for easy and quick creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the the top software program 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 enables 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. With a help of the "eraser" tool it is 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. 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. Glass icons really should be combined with taste so that the site style could remain professional and reserved.