Day 1, System Folders:

Day 5, Live Folder
 

Day 7, Data Folder

Day 8, Wrapper Folder 
 

Day 9, Favorites Folder  
 

Day 10, Pictures Folder   
 

Day 11, Downloads Folder 

Day 12, Links Folder    
 

Day 13, Music Folder    

Day 14, Videos Folder 
 

Day 15, Search Folder 
 

Step 1:
Once again we gather our assets together. All we will need is the Wrapper folder, the 1.0 Search icon (#81) and the File icon we created on day 9 for our Favorites folder.


 

Step 2:  
Now as luck would have it we can pretty much just flip our existing search icon, size it and skew it just a bit, and it works pretty much perfectly with our Wrapper folder. Even the shadows and reflections still work with a bit of cropping. 

Step 3: 
At first I was just going to put the glass in the Wrapper and call it a day, but we can do better.

Lets put a few files in the folder. They will be blank, so I remove everything but the top bars from the file. I also tweak the fill just a bit, because I want the color to wrap around the edge of the file.

 
 

Step 4:   
Now we simply duplicate our file 3 times, and change the color of the bar on each.  Once I am happy with them, I move them into the Wrapper.

While we have them together, I go ahead and touch up the gloss on the files.

Step 5:  
Tonight our classic last step is made much simpler by the fact that most of our shadows and reflections are good to go. All we need to do is give the treatment to the files.

Finished Icon:    
There we go, a new Search folder, this time with some continuity.

Step 1:
Let us start by getting our assets together, and removing the objects that we don't need. 

You can see our original Icon-A-Day 1.0, Video file in the line up.

Step 2:  
Now, just to make sure our basic composition works I move all our original assets together. If we were in a hurry, we could probably use this as our final icon, but we will be doing some tweaks to sexy things up a bit.

Step 3:
The first thing I want to do is replace the film images with something a bit more colorful Iin order to do this I'm going move the film strip out on its own for a bit.

Then, using the same techniques we used on the photos folder, I bring in a new image, duplicate it 3 times, and skew and crop the images to where they fit in the film.


 

Step 4:  
Now I want to change the copy on the clapper. I do this with the standard Text tool, and the Perspective tool.

Step 5:
Now we we start fixing some things. It looks like we can re-use the shadow on the video file. But we will need to crop it where it hits the back of the folder.

I can also use the shadow, for our drop shadow by skewing it and dropping it behind everything. Then I fade it out with the interactive Transparency tool.

 

Step 6:
Now we use shadow and reflection techniques to polish things off, starting with a few new shadows, 

Step 7: 
Last we finish off the the reflections, starting with the reflections in the folder front, and finishing up with the traditional floor reflection.

 

Finished Icon:    
Here we have our the last of our classic "My" User folders.

Step 1: 
We can start once again by grabbing our Wrapper folder, and our original Music folder.

Then we remove the assets that we will not be able to use.
  

Step 2:  
I keep all the notes and the CDs, though I don't know if we will be able to use them. I mostly want to be able to use them to copy effects and fills from them, while we create our new assets.

That said, I quickly create new ones as simple objects, using circles and boxes.

When I have the shapes, I weld the notes together. I also combine the circles together, creating an inner and outer ring for our disk.

Step 3: 
Before I go any further, I group our two disk circles together, so that I can apply a perspective to them.

Now I use the Perspective tool to quickly give our new notes new perspectives. I also do the disk at this point. 

 
Now it looks like we won't have enough room to get our green note in without crowding the composition. This frees us up to move on to our fills. We will start with the CD.

Step 4:  
I give the main body of the CD a nice Conical Fill, copying the colors from our original CD. Then I give the center ring a gray to white liner gradation.

I give the same fills to the rear disk, however when I'm done I tint them 2 clicks black, to darken them up.

Then I copy both rings one more time, move them behind the originals, and over to the right a bit, to create the illusion of thickness. I also tint these a little darker.

Step 5:
Now we need to make the inner rings of the disks transparent, which we do using the Interactive Transparency tool, and give them a liner transparency.

At this point we need to use our front circle to crop the copy of it we made in step 4, so we can have a lip yet be able to see through the "Glass." We need to do this twice, once for the inner lip, and once for the outer lip. 

We do the same thing for the rear disk.

 

Step 6:
Before we give the discs gloss or shadows, we will go ahead and move on to the music notes.
 
We will be doing them with mesh fills and blend groups. We start with the blend. First I draw a fresh ellipse over the bulbs of our notes. Then I copy that ellipse and make a smaller version, down toward the bottom of the other. We make the larger one the same color as our note, and the smaller one a lighter blue.



Now we just blend the two ellipses together.

Step 7: 
Next we draw two new mesh rectangles to give that glossy look to the rest of the note.



When we are done with the blue note we do the same thing on the new red note.
 

Step 8:  
Now we need to go through all of our new shapes and create new gloss, which we do this with our standard gloss technique. We have to be careful to crop some of the gloss on the Wrapper folder where it would be occluded by our new objects.

Step 7: 
Once again our last step is the Shadows and Reflections. These are a bit more difficult than normal, because we have a lot going on, and several reflective surfaces to keep in mind. See shadow and reflection techniques for more.  

Finished Icon:
Here we have it, the new Music folder. I think it stands up well when compared to our original. 

Step 1:
We start my making a copy of our Downloads folder from Day 11.

 
  

Step 2:  
Now we simply delete the download arrow, the shadows, and the gloss that we created for it. 

While we are poking around, we go ahead and change our background rectangle to blue.

Step 3:
Now we we pick up pretty much exactly where we were in yesterdays step 4. 

We draw a new links arrow, and give it a contour -remember to break the contour group apart - and regroup our the two objects together again.

 

Step 4:  
We take our group and give it some perspective with  the Perspective tool.

Step 5:
Now we give it our poor mans bevel (from yesterdays step 6).

Step 6:
Now we give our new interior arrow the inner glow. This will be exactly the same as yesterdays step 7, the only thing different is that we are using blues instead of greens.

Step 7: 
We finish up with the same steps as yesterday. Give it new gloss, then we polish it off with the classic shadow and reflection techniques. 

 

Finished Icon:   
Sadly we this was our only remaining super simple User folder icon, but here it is: the Links folder.