Glass Web Icons Are First Class Design Items

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.

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 icons as well as other types of 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 web teaching how to do this.

The crisp and pure look of glass icons makes navigating through the websites interesting and playful. If you wish to create such neat web icons you can easily find hundreds of tutorials on the Internet.

Tricks for easy and quick creation of glass web icons.

Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software program for creating web icons. Photoshop is becoming steadily more and more flexible software for design. Nowadays it allows 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 ability to combine pixel painting with vector tool for creating glass icons, buttons, characters etc. is an essential feature of the latest Photoshop versions.<\p>

The easiest way to design Glass icons is to make the "glass" layer overlap the image, not the whole image but the most of it. 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 take into account that glass-fever may look ridiculous. Don't forget glass icons should be combined with taste so that the website style could remain professional and reserved.