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Making Toolbar Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Applications
Read about the newest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style graphics for your software and Web projects.Producing software or developing a Web site? Ensure your interface looks current and up-to-date by checking the graphics used against current standards. This article explains the newest trends in designing modern, good-looking graphics for your software and Web projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for icon designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is important to read and comprehend the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from older XP-style images in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the maximum size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look detailed on modern high resolution displays. 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 very little details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of graphics enhance the appearance of your software, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great images improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it faster to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make buttons and actions easier to learn and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icons drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in products designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Simply visit 777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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