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Image sizes: 1024x1024, 512x512, 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 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 try to analyze if including these stock icons will prove advantageous to their website design and software programs; so, here is a look at how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are designing a website or are creating an application, you probably know that pictorial depictions of the various functions are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can turn your application or website from being only functional to one that is is professional looking, user friendly and attention grabbing. However, making your personal graphics can be nothing short of harrowing and of course time consuming. If you hire the services of a web graphics designer, you will land up spending a bundle for the graphics. On the contrary, you will be able to find the very same quality from web graphics offered over the internet for a fraction of the cost. A set of stock icons will generally have more than a hundred icons, sold in a variety of image formats that are perfect for representing the functions common to most websites and software programs; for instance, copy, paste, lock and help etc. If you could not find graphics that live up to you expectations, you can also approach one of these websites and request them to create specialized graphics for you; this is probably the most feasible option; to put it simply, the original graphics artist will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to hold on to a modicum of similarity throughout the series of images devoted to a specific theme. The next query that most people ponder over is whether they should select the commercial varieties or go for free icon sets, so here is a look at some of the benefits of commercial graphics vis a vis the free images: Cost: The cost of an collection of graphics can be in the range of $100 and over based on the quantity of icons. However, free icon collections will usually have infringement related concerns and/or you will need to use accreditations while you use them on your site. Size: High quality image collections can be purchased in a plethora of sizes, so even if you pay for a singular image, you should get them in different sizes such as 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also get them in different states like disabled, hot etc. On the other hand; free images can only be procured in a single state and size License: You may need to tackle some issues 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 as much as you like but with professional icon collections, you can use the images innumerable times in the most esoteric contexts. Usability: Commercial stock icons will usually have ample of pictures to meet all your software and web designing expectation but with free images even if you do find good quality images, they are far and few between this would mean that it may be impossible to use them in your application creation and web designing. ![]()
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