Icon-A-Day 2.0, Day 4. Open Folder, Live Folder, what's the difference?

Step 1:
Here you can see my Live Folder guide. In step one I will simply copy our Closed Folder and place it behind my guide. 

 

Step 2:
Now I will simply grab the front of the folder and size it and skew it, using the Pick Tool. I just want to make it look more or less like it is opened up. We will touch it up a bit in Step 3.
 

Step 3:

If we were in a hurry the simple skewing and sizing of the folder front would probably be good enough, however, since we are trying to do things right, I want to tweak the mesh nodes to make sure our folder front does not look squished.

In order to do this, I nudge the brush fill out of the way so I can get to my folder front.

Step 4:

Once I am done touching up my mesh tool, I nudge my texture fill back over. Since I have not changed the folder shape much, I don't need to edit it.

Now that we have changed our folder front, our inner shadow is messed up. In order to fix this we will use the same shadow technique as yesterday.

 Step 5:
Now that we have the correct shadows, we can see that our gloss no longer looks quite right. Once again I just draw in some new white shapes, or edit the existing ones, and then I fade them out with the Interactive Transparency tool.

  

Step 6a:

Our last step, will be more or less the same as our last step yesterday; we have to re-do our reflection.

In short I copy both our folder front and back, create bitmaps with them, then size them and flip them, placing them in a mirrored position under our icon. Then I squish them down until they look right.

Step 6b:

Once I am done with that, I convert them to one bitmap and fade them out with the Interactive Transparency tool.

Once again I will point out that both the techniques in Step 4 and Step 6 are in the Save video over at Corel For Skinners.

Finished Icon:
Once we export our file, to a PNG, we have our finished image, our Open Folder icon is ready to go.