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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk

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purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 11th 2008, 3:56 pm

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. wink

Before Flip:
[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk 11uvpn9

After Flip:
[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk 102jrk2


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:

[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk 30szsbd

Now go to Desklets>Add>Pidlshortcut>Add item

Adding the item:

[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk 2dikmmo

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:

[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk 2ypdwdu

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.

[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk 2r5ajj7

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! wink

Thanks for reading.
manufn619

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PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 11th 2008, 4:04 pm

dude thats mad hard just use samurize
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 11th 2008, 4:30 pm

manufn619 wrote:
dude thats mad hard just use samurize

What the heck is samurize.
monstr

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 11th 2008, 4:52 pm

wtf. i don't get the point of this tut happy

why not just use one icon with reflection in it? happy
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 11th 2008, 5:30 pm

monstr wrote:
wtf. i don't get the point of this tut happy

why not just use one icon with reflection in it? happy

Because pre-reflected icons dont look very good compared to these.
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 4:52 am

manufn619 wrote:
dude thats mad hard just use samurize

Samurize??
timbob

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 7:58 am

Nice little guide thumbs up
Dashsutra

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 8:13 am

http://www.samurize.com/modules/news/ here u go smile
alxmarcond

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 8:22 am

try using ummm... how do u say... a dock that reflects?
Mitch

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 9:39 am

Haha.
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 2:32 pm

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?.... angry

@Dashutra

I downloaded it, and its quite confusing to me? How do i "reflect" the icons.
mwpsp

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PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 2:34 pm

lol samurize is better for that !
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 3:13 pm

mwpsp wrote:
lol samurize is better for that !

I've been told that a billion times as you can see.
chekkz

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1June 13th 2008, 9:07 pm

I tried to use "samurize" on windows a while back, and i didn't get how i was supposed to make it work :undecided:
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1August 26th 2008, 4:13 pm

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?!!?
Gerard19

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1September 7th 2008, 7:45 pm

Thanks for this tutorial mate! didnt know how to do it lol
and I havent tried samurize xD
nodeffect

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1October 14th 2008, 6:42 pm

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 smile
alxmarcond

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1October 14th 2008, 7:12 pm

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 wink
purry

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[Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Vide
PostSubject: Re: [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk   [Tutorial] Guide to Reflecting Icons with AveDesk Icon_minitime1February 1st 2009, 5:25 am

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. smile
Xiloa

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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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