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Easy web 2.0 style folder icon
By Ps graphiX | august 13, 2007
Ok, this is my first tutorial so don’t be to hard on me if anything should be done different. The images can be viewed larger if you click on them and that’s about all you should know except from that this is a Photoshop tutorial 
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First, start with creating a new document with any size you want (I used 200*200) and fill it with a dark color or gradient. Then ewe are just going to create a square with the rectangular marquee tool and fill it with any color. It doesn’t matter cause we are going to add gradient overlay. Now you should have something that look like this:
Now you are going to shape this square so it gets a more 3d shape you will see the shape below together with the gradient overlay i used on the layer. And by the way, you can shape the layer by going to Edit>Transform> Skew, but i prefer to hold down Crtl while in Free transform. I kind of feel more free.
It might seem a bit weird, but you’ll understand if you scroll down the site. But NOW we are just going to duplicate this layer and then shape it just like we did with the first square. Try to make it so that they are about like the image below. Don’t worry if it’s not like mine. It might be better. Anyway you can change it later.
Duplicate this layer too and shape it. The only difference is that we are going to add drop shadow and change the gradient overlay. Below are the layer styles and how it looks now.
And there it is. An important paper in our important folder. Don’t forget to adjust/shape the layer so that it fits together as you are working. The next step is to just add more paper. Just duplicate the paper layer and shape it. Repeat this until you have about 4-5 papers. And there you have a folder!
But to make it cooler and more web 2.0ish, we’ll add some reflection. It’s not hard if you know how to do it, but if you dont know, folow these steps:
Create a new layer. Use elliptical marquee tool to select an area about like on the picture below and fill it with white (#ffffff)
Now, right-click the top layer of the folder in the layers palette (the one beneath that we just maked). Rember that you are going to click at the icon of it, not the text. You now have a selection of the top folder layer. Go to Select>Modify>Contract. Select about 3pixels and click ok. Right click the selection you now have, with a selection tool selected, and chose select inverse. And while having our reflection layer selected, click backspace.
I hope you’re still with me after that little step and now you should have something like this:
Now simply just lower the opacity to about 23% and you’re done! Of course you can continue customize it at your own and get another outcome. Hope you liked my tutorial, and a comment of what you feel right now would be appreciated 
And here is my outcome after doing this tutorial. I also added a little reflection at the bottom:
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