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Creating Graphics for Windows Vista Applications
Read about the newest trends in making modern Windows Vista-style graphics for your programs and Web portals.Producing standalone application or developing a Web site? Make sure your project looks modern and up-to-date by checking the pictures used against current standards. This article explains the latest trends in designing contemporary, good-looking graphics for your software and Web projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest Windows release, 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 graphics 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 icon format by defining the maximum size of the icons 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 sizes, and advises that toolbar icons bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. 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 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 easier to find and to use day by 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 images 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 software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit 777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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