Web Glass Icons

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.

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.

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

Glass web icons as well as other kinds of icons are usually depicted with reflecting. It is one of the standard features of the "Web 2.0" icons. You may find various tutorials on the net instructing to make vertical reflection effect for web icons.

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

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

Tricks for fast and simple 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. Originally it was rather an image editor and nowadays it enables to produce 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 program. 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. With a help of 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. After this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

Professional site designers should use this effect carefully and bear in mind that glass-fever may look ridiculous . Remember glass icons should be combined with taste so that the website style could remain professional and reserved.