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Image sizes: 256x256, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Creating Icons for Windows 7 ProjectsLearn about the newest trends in producing contemporary Windows Vista-style buttons for your programs and Web portals.Developing software or designing a Web site? Ensure your design looks current and up-to-date by checking the images used against modern standards. This article explains the newest trends in making modern, good-looking icons for your off-line and Web projects. With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image designers. If you want your product 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 icons 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 icon format by defining the largest size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look detailed on modern hi-definition monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no extra 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 products, making it simpler to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make objects and actions simpler 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 graphics share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently added 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in products 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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