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Image sizes: 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Making Toolbar Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 ProjectsLearn about the newest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style icons for your software and Web projects.Producing software or developing a Web site? Ensure your interface looks current and contemporary by checking the pictures used against current standards. This article explains the latest trends in drawing modern, good-looking graphics for your off-line and on-line projects. With every new release of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for image designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines. Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from previously used XP-style icons 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 icon format by defining the largest size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that programs look well defined on modern high resolution 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 resolutions. Toolbar icons in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective. Well-designed and 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 graphics improve usability and efficiency of products, making it simpler to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make buttons and actions easier to learn and to use every day. Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock 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. Just visit 777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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