Glass Web Icons

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 moreover you can find a great amount of tutorials on the net 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 crisp and pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the websites eye-catching 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 more and more flexible and multitasking software for design. Originally it was rather an image editor and nowadays it allows to produce 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 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 web icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image. By using 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. As a result it should create a kind of the glass haze in the opposite sides. As soon as this procedure complete the further adjustments should be applied.

Professional web designers should use this effect carefully and remember that glass-fever may look ridiculous. Glass icons really should be used with taste so that the internet site style could remain professional and reserved.