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Creating Icons for Windows Vista Projects
Learn about the newest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style icons for your programs and Web portals.Producing standalone application or designing a Web site? Ensure your project looks current and contemporary by checking the graphics used against current standards. This article explains the newest trends in making modern, good-looking images for your software and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style images differ from previously used XP-style icons in several ways. The style of the new images becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the maximum size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that programs look well defined on modern hi-definition displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar images 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 graphics enhance the appearance of your software, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great icons improve usability and efficiency of software, making it simpler to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make buttons and actions simpler 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 all guidelines, the images share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes, including the recently added 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. Just visit www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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