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Image sizes: 256x256, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should you use stock icons?There is certainly no shortage of online establishments that sell stock icons; however, people often ponder if incorporating these stock icons will make a difference to their website design and tools; so, here is a look at how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are a web designer or are creating an application, you must already know that pictorial depictions of the various functions are often the first impression creators; they can turn your program or website from being just functional to one that is is professional looking, simple to operate and attractive. However, designing your exclusive graphics can be incredibly taxing and of course a task that will take up a lot of your time. If you get in touch with a web graphics designer, you will end up paying him an exorbitant amount for the icon collection. As opposed to this, you could find the precise quality from icon collections available over the internet for a relatively low cost. A set of stock icons usually has more than a hundred icons, provided in different file formats that are useful for representing the functions that are commonly observed on several websites and software programs; such as, help, copy, paste, lock etc. If you could not buy stock icons that live up to you expectations, you can simply get in touch one of these online establishments and request them to make exclusive icons for you; this is an immensely preferable option; to put it simply, the designer who worked on the original graphics will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to retain some semblance of consistency throughout the series of images associated with a specific theme. Another question that several people ponder over is whether they should choose the commercial graphics or get free collections, so here are some thoughts on the advantages of commercial icon collections vis a vis the free images: Price: The cost of an icon set is to the tune of $100 and more depending on the quantity of images. However, free graphics will usually have copyright concerns and/or you will have to offer accreditations when they are put to use on your site. Size: Good quality image collections can be bought in a plethora of sizes, so even though you buy one icon, you should get them in an assortment of sizes such as 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also get them in various states ;for instance, disabled, hot etc. On the other hand; free images can only be procured in a one state and size License: You may have to face some problems with the free license; you will not have the liberty to modify the icons in anyway nor will you have the permission to utilize them multiple times but with commercial stock icons, you can utilize the stock icons innumerable times in the most esoteric contexts. Utility: Commercial stock icons will generally contain ample of pictures to meet all your application and web designing expectation ; however, with free graphics even if you were to manage to get fairly good graphics, these are very rare which means that you will not be able to incorporate them in your applications. ![]()
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