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Making Toolbar Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Projects

Learn about the latest trends in making contemporary Windows Vista-style icons for your products and Web portals.

Producing software or developing a Web site? Ensure your design looks current and up-to-date by checking the graphics used against current standards. This text explains the newest trends in drawing modern, good-looking icons for your off-line 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 Windows release, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines.

Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style images differ from previously used XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the largest size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look well defined on modern hi-definition monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar icons bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar graphics 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 programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great graphics improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it faster to learn 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 icons 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 resolutions, including the recently added 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. Simply visit 777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.

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Large Weather Icons depict different weather conditions that are common for software, weather Web sites, and mobile gadgets. The images are supplied in all sizes standard to Windows, Mac OS, and mobile devices. The largest versions are huge 512x512 pixel icons with vector sources in Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format easily available and ready to be printed or used in presentations in highest resolution.

Business Icon Set. A collection of all-purpose icons with various symbols for the business environment for use with your software or on your website.

Vista Financial Icon Library is a collection of finance and shopping related icons in contemporary Vista style. The set is provided as BMP, GIF, PNG and ICO file formats.

Desktop Device Icons are perfect to be used in personal desktop customization, for software icons, or toolbar icons. This set has it all, from 256x256 Vista style images to 16x16 toolbar icons.

Vista Network Icon Library is a pack of network-related images. All the graphics are provided in two variants, with and without shadow, a number of sizes and formats is available.