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Making Icons for Windows 7 Applications
Learn about the latest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style icons for your software and Web sites.Developing software or designing a Web site? Make sure your application looks current and up-to-date by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This article explains the latest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for image designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows, it is important to read and understand 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 drawing style of the new icons becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the maximum size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that programs look detailed on modern hi-definition displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of icons enhance the appearance of your software, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good icons improve usability and efficiency of software, making it faster to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make objects and actions easier to find and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of ready-made application and toolbar icons designed 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 www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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