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Making Icons for Windows Vista Projects
Learn about the latest trends in creating contemporary Windows Vista-style buttons for your programs and Web projects.Producing standalone application or developing a Web site? Ensure your product looks modern and up-to-date by checking the images used against modern standards. This article explains the newest trends in designing contemporary, good-looking images for your software and on-line projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from older XP-style images in several ways. The drawing style of the new icons becomes more realistic than cartoon-line 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, ensuring that programs look good on modern hi-definition monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of graphics enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good graphics improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it simpler to use 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 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 defined 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. Simply visit 777 icons to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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