Web Glass Icons

Glass icons can be considered 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.

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.

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

Tricks for quick and easy creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the best software program for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming steadily more and more flexible 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 icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image. By using the "eraser" tool you'll 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. 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 site style could remain professional and reserved.