Pure Look Of Glass Icons Are First Class Design Items

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.

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

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 net instructing 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 website pages playful and attracts many people. In the Internet sources you may find hundreds of tutorials about the ways of creating such neat web icons.

Creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the most well known software program for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming more and more flexible and multitasking software for design. Nowadays it allows to create almost all visual effects used for the graphic design. A lot of the great web icons designs were created with a help of this software. The ability to combine pixel painting with vector tool for creating glass icons, buttons, characters etc. is a vital feature of the latest Photoshop versions.<\p>

The simplest way to design Glass icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image, not the whole image but the most of it. 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. As a result it should create a 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 take into account that glass-fever may look ridiculous. Remember glass icons should be used with taste so that the website style could remain professional and reserved.