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Drawing Graphics for Windows 7 Applications
Learn about the newest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style images for your products and Web sites.Producing standalone application or designing a Web site? Make sure your interface looks modern and contemporary by checking the pictures used against modern standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for icon designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is important to read and understand the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from previously used XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the largest size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look detailed on modern high resolution 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 images in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of icons enhance the appearance of your programs, 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 learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make buttons and actions easier to learn and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icon images 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 and resolutions, including the recently added 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit 777 icons to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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