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Drawing Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Applications
Learn about the latest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style buttons for your software and Web sites.Producing standalone application or developing an online project? Ensure your application looks current and up-to-date by checking the images 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 refreshes guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest Windows, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style images differ from older XP-style images in several ways. The drawing 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 images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look good on modern hi-definition displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar icons in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of icons 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 products, making it simpler to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make buttons and actions simpler to find and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of ready-made application and toolbar icons drawn 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 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. Simply visit 777 icons to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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