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Creating Icons for Windows 7 Projects
Read about the newest trends in producing contemporary Windows Vista-style images for your programs and Web projects.Producing standalone application or developing an online project? Ensure your application looks modern and up-to-date by checking the graphics used against current standards. This article explains the newest trends in making contemporary, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines.
Not getting 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 icons becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the largest size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look good on modern high resolution displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar icons bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and 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 images improve usability and efficiency of software, making it easier to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make buttons and actions easier to learn and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icons drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest 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 alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in programs designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit www.777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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