 |
|
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
|
Program Icons
Downloads
Get icon software
and icon graphics!
perfecticon.com
Windows Icon
Collections
More than 99999
icon files.
Low price
& High quality.
www.777icons.com
Toolbar
Icon Images
Download thousands
of toolbar and menu
icons now!
toolbar-icons.com
Website Icons
Search web
icons. Download
icon sets.
perfect-icons.com
Downloads
Get icon software
and icon graphics!
perfecticon.com
Windows Icon
Collections
More than 99999
icon files.
Low price
& High quality.
www.777icons.com
Toolbar
Icon Images
Download thousands
of toolbar and menu
icons now!
toolbar-icons.com
Website Icons
Search web
icons. Download
icon sets.
perfect-icons.com
 | ||||||||
|
 |
 |
|
 Call Icon |
|
Add Call icon to cartIcon sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16
File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP
Purchase entire Standard Telephone Icons now! View Standard Telephone Icons now!
Download demo icons
Painting Images with Aqua Effect
Drawing a brand-new icon having the familiar "aqua" effect is easier than you think – if you use proper tools. You can make an icon from scratch by only using a free, small and lightweight icon editor.Designing a fresh new image featuring the renowned "aqua" effect is easier than you think – if you use proper tools. To draw an image from scratch, a professional, lightweight and simple icon editor such as IconLover 5 (aha-soft.com) is all you really need.
For an instance, let us make an aqua-style icon to represent "Add", a glass ball with a "plus" sign inside. First, you’ll need to draw a circle of a certain color. Pick the color you want from the Color properties menu. Just so you know, you can always memorize a color by adding it to Custom Colors; this comes really handy if you need to draw a matching set of images.
With the Transparency bar or by using one of the Transparency presets, set your new image’s transparency. For this tutorial, the ball will be fully opaque. In the same way, you can set background color; for simplicity’s sake, we’ll keep the background transparent for now.
To make a circle of your chosen color, select the Filled Ellipse tool by clicking the Filled Ellipse icon in the Tools menu, which is on the left of the drawing area. Holding your left mouse button down, move the mouse cursor within the drawing area to draw an ellipse. The ellipse changes its size and shape as you move the mouse. To create a perfectly round circle, hold Shift while drawing. That’s it, you have just drawn a circle!
To add volume and dimension to the flat circle, we’ll need to apply some special effects. There are many of them built into IconLover! You can add shadows, gradients, transparency masks, and of course, the renowned ‘glass reflection’ look employed by the aqua effect.
To make an icon matching Apple’s Aqua style, you’ll need to draw a reflection and a shadow to the circle. This can be managed quite easily by simply selecting Aqua from the Effects menu. Keep all sliders at their current positions for now, and you’ll get a beautiful shiny sphere as a result.
Now let’s add an artist’s touch and make your icon truly unique. Go back to that Aqua dialog and have a carefull look at the properties. There are multiple properties available to adjust, allowing you to design something never seen before. Go ahead and move the sliders to see how your icon can look!
As a final touch, let’s add some dimension to your newly created icon. While glowing and shiny, it still looks like a lens rather than a crystal ball. Let’s fix that by adding a drop-down shadow! To apply a shadow effect to the icon, click "Drop shadow" from the Effects menu. You can stick to defaults, or adjust the settings around by getting a flat button, a lens, or a ball. It all depends on the size of the shadow, its distance from the subject, and the angle at which it falls to the surface.
To embed the ‘plus’ sign into the icon, click on the Text tool icon in the left Tools menu or press "T" to invoke the text properties window. Make sure the "Image transparency" box is ticked. This means that your text will not be transparent, only the area around it will be. Tweaking the "Use semi-transparency" setting gets your text the same level of transparency your primary color has. Type "+", and you’ll get the ‘plus’ sign inserted into the ball.
That’s it! You’ve just created a crystal ball that appears to be in the famous Aqua style! All you needed was a professional icon editor, IconLover 5, a few mouse clicks and a few minutes of your time. Easy!
Copyright © 2005-2022 Aha-Soft. All rights reserved.
|
More info
