Glass Aqua
Glass Aqua
Creating Icon Images with Aqua Effect using Icon Software
Drawing a fresh new image having the familiar "aqua" effect is easier than you think - if you use proper tools. To create an image from scratch, a professional, small and simple icon software such as IconLover 5 is all you really need. IconLover is available here: www.aha-soft.com
For example, let us draw an aqua-style icon to represent the "Add" action: a glass ball with a "plus" sign in it.
Start from drawing a circle of a chosen color. Pick the color from the Color properties menu. To memorize the color add it to Custom Colors - this comes really handy if you need to paint a matching set of icons.
With the Transparency bar or by using one of the Transparency presets, define your new icon's opacity. For this tutorial, the ball has to be fully opaque. Similarly, 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 located to the left of the drawing area. Holding the left mouse button down, move the mouse 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 created a circle!
To add volume and dimension to the flat circle, we'll need to add some special effects. There are tons of those built into IconLover! This icon software lets you add shadows, gradients, transparency masks, and of course, the famous 'glass reflection' look employed by the aqua effect.
To make an icon matching Apple's Aqua style, you'll need to add a reflection and a shadow to the circle. This can be done quite easily altogether by simply selecting Aqua from the Effects menu. Keep all sliders and values at their defaults for now, and you'll get a beautiful shiny sphere as a result.
Now let's have some fun and make your icon truly unique. Go back to that Aqua dialog and have a carefull look at the properties. There are plenty of settings available to tweak, allowing you to draw something never seen before. Go ahead and tweak 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 to get a flat button, a lens, or a ball. The look depends on the size of the shadow, its distance from the subject, and the angle at which it falls to the ground.
To embed the 'plus' sign into the icon, click 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 selected. This means that your text will not be transparent, only the area around it will be. Adjusting the "Use semi-transparency" setting assigns your text the same level of transparency your primary color has. Type "+", and you'll get the 'plus' sign inserted into the ball.
Voila! You've just designed a crystal ball that appears to be in the famous Aqua style! All you needed was a professional icon software, IconLover 5, a few mouse clicks and a couple of minutes of your time. Easy!
About the Author
Dennis Larine is a designer and blogger working for Aha-Soft, a software and design company that offers icon software and royalty-free stock icons and also designs custom icons for software and WWW.
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Aqua Globes seen on TV
The Aqua Globe is a hand blown glass ornaments to water your plants for you. There is nothing more than a colored glass bulb attached to an elongated rod. That's what you do. Fill the bulb with water, then jam on the ground strains of the plant you want to be watered. The release of water balloons that the plant needs by dripful. Do not worry about or under irrigation. You stay plants well watered as long as two weeks, and most surprising is that you will not lift a finger! houseplants Large or small, garden plants, hanging plants and even finicky exotics have hydration Goldilocks.
True Aqua Globes provide some relieved the pressure of being parents to their plants. We have come to expect a certain "Set it and forget" convenience that you see on an infomercial on TV products. The Aqua Globe is not absolve the user of one of their responsibilities to their plants. After all you need to make sure you fill the Aqua Globe.
As a guest spoke about his experience with the Aqua Globe, he found a renewed interest for broadleaf little. She oversaw the warning Globe and always fill the balloon with water in the two weeks following the instructions. The plant appeared be a very lively. As soil dries plant, it will release oxygen into the Aqua Globe. The ad claims that pushes water infiltration through the stem so the only plant that gives the perfect amount of water to drink. Before treatment with Aqua Globe, stick a finger in the soil found it was dry as a bone, then she was so wet as a chocolate cake: Positively peat.
However, it seems that the work product, as advertised, the decision on whether to buy the product comes up to his appearance. That's what he said about the announcement Aqua Globe - "As a simple - but very beautiful." The only negative we had against the other Aqua Globe is that from time to time, the mother becomes clogged with dirt. The instructions recommended a small tool or a stick is used to wear a path by Aqua Globe before insertion and which seemed to solve the problem.
Again, the Aqua Globe Water houseplants as long as two weeks. For the indoor plants and outdoor pots. Drawings from the hand-blown glass add beauty to your plants. The Aqua Globe gift box that includes you can share with other members of his family and friends.
A customer thought Aqua Globes as houseplants jewelry. However, they much more than pretty. They ensure that their children just to get the right amount of green water on the floor without being too wet.
Have you intend to go on a couple of weeks? Who not a problem now that Aqua Globes! It will keep your plants happy, even when you're not at home. If you stay at home, but they are too busy to give a look at your plants? Say goodbye to the frog because the song Globes Aqua is so beautiful, but you can not stop watching them. Please make sure the plants and Aqua Globes today!
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