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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk |
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 11th 2008, 3:56 pm |
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I got a few PM's on dA asking how to reflect icons with AveDesk so now I am just going to post this guide.
What You need:
AveDesk GIMP or Photoshop A Dock Access to the icons in your dock
First, look at your dock and look at the first icon in it. Its most likely thats its going to be Finder or another icon substituted for finder. So, first, your going to open up Photoshop or GIMP, then open your icon with it. (Personally I use GIMP so that is what I will be showing in the pictures, but it works either way.)
When you have the icon in GIMP/ Photoshop Tools>Transform tools>Flip and click the icon once. The Icon should have flipped over like if you were on your belly and you moved onto your back.
Before Flip:
After Flip:
Once you have the icon flipped, save it as (original icon name here)flip.png
This is important because when you want to find the right icon to flip in avedesk you need to find the flipped version!
Now, Open up Avedesk and double click the icon in your system tray.
Avedesk in your system tray:
Now go to Desklets>Add>Pidlshortcut>Add item
Adding the item:
Now, open up your dock settings for whatever dock you have, find out what size the icons are in your dock, in my case, they 60x60.
now go back to the Desklets Control Panel in avedesk and right click on the Pidlshortcut that you created. then go to Properties, you should be presented with this menu.
Menu:
RED= Make sure the Width and Height match the size of the icons in your dock.
GREEN= This is the transparency of your icon, adjust this however you want.
YELLOW= Make sure this is at 180 on the Right side.
Now, just choose the flipped icon you created in Photoshop earlier for the icon.
Then place the icon under the icon in your dock and you have a reflection! Just repeat for every icon in your dock and you got it!
Thanks for reading.
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manufn619
Regular Visitor
OS : XP
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 11th 2008, 4:04 pm |
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dude thats mad hard just use samurize
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 11th 2008, 4:30 pm |
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- manufn619 wrote:
- dude thats mad hard just use samurize
What the heck is samurize.
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monstr
Banned
From : Germany
OS : XP
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 11th 2008, 4:52 pm |
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wtf. i don't get the point of this tut
why not just use one icon with reflection in it?
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 11th 2008, 5:30 pm |
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- monstr wrote:
- wtf. i don't get the point of this tut
why not just use one icon with reflection in it? Because pre-reflected icons dont look very good compared to these.
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 4:52 am |
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- manufn619 wrote:
- dude thats mad hard just use samurize
Samurize??
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timbob
Moderator
OS : Vista
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 7:58 am |
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Nice little guide
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Dashsutra
Regular Visitor
From : Serbia
OS : Lame XP SP3
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 8:13 am |
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http://www.samurize.com/modules/news/ here u go
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alxmarcond
Community Leader
From : Clemson
OS : LFS, Win7 b.7000, OS X Leopard 10.5.6
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 8:22 am |
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try using ummm... how do u say... a dock that reflects?
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Mitch
Regular Visitor
From : S/W England
OS : Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 9:39 am |
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Haha.
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 2:32 pm |
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- alxmarcond wrote:
- try using ummm... how do u say... a dock that reflects?
-.- dont make fun of windows. We know it sucks but we stick there until the end! Right guys?....
@Dashutra
I downloaded it, and its quite confusing to me? How do i "reflect" the icons.
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mwpsp
Regular Visitor
OS : WinOSX
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 2:34 pm |
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lol samurize is better for that !
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 3:13 pm |
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- mwpsp wrote:
- lol samurize is better for that !
I've been told that a billion times as you can see.
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chekkz
Kid Sister
From : NYC
OS : Mac OS X
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk June 13th 2008, 9:07 pm |
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I tried to use "samurize" on windows a while back, and i didn't get how i was supposed to make it work :undecided:
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk August 26th 2008, 4:13 pm |
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- chekkz wrote:
- I tried to use "samurize" on windows a while back, and i didn't get how i was supposed to make it work :undecided:
Neither did I!! You guys who keep telling us to use samurize, why dont you freaking tell us how it works?!!?
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Gerard19
Regular Visitor
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk September 7th 2008, 7:45 pm |
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Thanks for this tutorial mate! didnt know how to do it lol and I havent tried samurize xD
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nodeffect
I'm New
OS : Windows XP, Vista
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk October 14th 2008, 6:42 pm |
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samurize is hard to use as hell.... i tried to use it and I did it work but it's too complicated... so I decided to switch to avedesk...
anyway, nice tutorial there... thanks for sharing... hope to see more
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alxmarcond
Community Leader
From : Clemson
OS : LFS, Win7 b.7000, OS X Leopard 10.5.6
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk October 14th 2008, 7:12 pm |
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hows about use the dock that Gerard is using... i forget the name but PM him, its EXACTLY like Leodock and it uses the same themeing system as leo dock
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purry
Senior Member
From : Washington
OS : Mac OS X Leopard
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk February 1st 2009, 5:25 am |
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Meh never heard of it.. But I'll try to find it. I have my own Mac now so I have the real Leopard dock.
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Xiloa
Regular Visitor
From : Canada
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Subject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk February 12th 2009, 12:02 am |
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Thanks for the tut but if you do it right pre-reflected icons look fine to me
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