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Learn about the newest trends in producing modern Windows Vista-style images for your products and Web sites.Developing software or designing an online project? Ensure your project looks modern and contemporary by checking the icons used against current standards. This article explains the latest trends in designing modern, good-looking images for your off-line and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style images differ from previously used XP-style images in several ways. The style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the maximum size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look good 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 graphics in Windows Vista have no details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and thought of images enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great graphics improve usability and efficiency of software, making it faster to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make objects and actions easier to learn and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icon images designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the graphics share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard resolutions, including the recently added 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in products designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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