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Creating Graphics for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Projects
Learn about the newest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style icons for your programs and Web projects.Developing standalone application or developing a Web site? Make sure your application looks current and contemporary by checking the icons used against modern standards. This article explains the latest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking images for your software and on-line projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is important to read and understand the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from older XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new images becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the largest size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that programs look well defined on modern high resolution monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of images enhance the appearance of your products, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great images improve usability and efficiency of products, making it easier to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make objects and actions easier to learn and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icon images drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the graphics share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard resolutions, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in programs designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit 777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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