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Image sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should you use stock icons?There is definitely no lack of online businesses that provide stock icons; however, people often ponder if incorporating these stock icons will change the look of their web designs and software programs; so, here is some information on how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are into website designing or are creating an application, you must already know that icons are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can change your software or site from being only functional to one that is is professional, user friendly and eye catching. However, designing your personal graphics can be incredibly taxing and of course a waste of time.. If you hire the services of a web graphics designer, you will end up paying him a small fortune for the graphics. As opposed to this, you could get the precise quality from web graphics sold over the internet for a relatively low cost. A library of stock icons can include more than 100 images, offered in different file formats that are useful for showing the functions that are popularly seen on several websites and applications; such as, copy, paste, lock and help etc. If you don't find icons that meet your needs, you can always approach one of these websites and ask them to create a custom icon for you; this is probably the most preferable option; to state it factually, the original graphics artist will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to retain some degree of consistency in all the icons in a series associated with a particular theme. The next query that a majority of people think about is whether they should select the commercial images or pick free graphics, so here are some thoughts on the advantages of commercial icon collections as compared to the free pictures: Price: The price of an icon collection is generally in the vicinity of $100 and more based on the quantity of graphical depictions. However, free icon collections will generally have royalty problems and/or you will need to use accreditations while you use them on your site. Size: Commercial quality con sets can be bought in a myriad of pixels, so even if you buy one icon, you should get them in different sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also purchase them in different states such as disabled, hot etc. But unlike these; free images can only be downloaded in a single size and state License: You may encounter some problems with the a license that costs nothing; you will not be able to make changes to the icons nor will you have a free hand to use them as much as you like but with commercial stock icons, you can utilize the stock icons as many times and in any project as you deem fit. Utility: Professional icon sets will usually have quite a few graphics to suit all your programming and web graphic expectation ; however, with free images even if you were to find good quality images, these are very rare this would mean that you may find it very hard to make use of these graphics when designing applications or websites. ![]()
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