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Designing Graphics for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Projects
Read about the latest trends in creating contemporary Windows Vista-style icons for your programs and Web projects.Producing software or developing a Web site? Make sure your application looks current and up-to-date by checking the graphics used against modern standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking graphics for your software and Web projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is important to read and understand the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style images differ from older XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the largest size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that programs look detailed on modern high resolution displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar graphics 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 carefully thought of images enhance the appearance of your software, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great images improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it faster to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make objects and actions easier to learn and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icon images designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the images 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 products 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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