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Image sizes: 1024x1024, 512x512, 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Making Toolbar Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 ApplicationsRead about the latest trends in making modern Windows Vista-style graphics for your products and Web portals.Producing standalone application or developing a Web site? Ensure your application looks modern and contemporary by checking the graphics used against modern standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking images for your off-line and on-line projects. With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows, it is important to read and comprehend 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 images 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 maximum size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that programs look well defined on modern high resolution displays. 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 sizes. Toolbar icons in Windows Vista have no details such as shadows, and are flat 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 images improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it easier to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make buttons and actions easier to learn and to use every 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 icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard 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 777 icons to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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