 |
|
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | |
|
 | ||||||||
|
 |
 |
|
 Search Photo Icon |
|
Add Search Photo icon to cartIcon sizes: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16, 256x256, 512x512
File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP
Purchase entire Large SEO Icons now! View Large SEO Icons now!
Download demo icons
Making Graphics for Windows 7 Applications
Learn about the latest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style icons for your software and Web sites.Developing software or developing an online project? Make sure your interface looks modern and contemporary by checking the graphics used against current standards. This text explains the newest trends in designing modern, good-looking graphics for your software and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for image designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is important to read and understand the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from older XP-style icons in several ways. The style of the new icons becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the largest size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that programs look well defined 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 details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of graphics enhance the appearance of your products, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good icons improve usability and efficiency of products, making it faster to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make objects and actions simpler to find and to use every 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 icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard 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. Simply visit www.777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
Copyright © 2009-2012 Aha-Soft. All rights reserved.
|
More info
