![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Image sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should you use stock icons?There is definitely no dearth of websites that provide stock icons; however, people often wonder if using these stock icons will change the look of their website design and applications; so, here is some information on how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are a web designer or writing a program, you must have a fair idea about how pictorial depictions of the various functions are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can turn your program or website from being merely functional to one that is is professional looking, user friendly and attention grabbing. However, designing your own icon collection can be incredibly taxing and of course a task that will take up a lot of your time. If you enlist the help of a web graphics designer, you will land up spending a bundle for the icons. As opposed to this, you could procure the very same quality from stock icon sets sold over the internet for a relatively low cost. A set of stock icons can include more than a hundred icons, sold in a variety of graphic formats that are useful for depicting the functions common to most websites and software programs; for example, help, copy, paste, lock etc. If you could not get stock icons that suit your requirements, you can always approach one of these websites and request them to design exclusive icons for you; this is an immensely preferable option; simply, the original graphics artist will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to retain a modicum of consistency in all the icons in a series created for a particular theme. The second query that a majority of people ponder over is whether they should choose the commercial varieties or get free icon sets, so here is a look at some of the advantages of commercial stock icons as compared to the free pictures: Cost: The price of an collection of graphics is generally in the vicinity of $100 and more depending on the quantity of icons. However, free graphics will normally have infringement related issues and/or you will have to offer accreditations when they are put to use on your site. Size: Good quality stock icon sets can be bought in a variety of pixels, so although you purchase one icon, you will get them in different sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also purchase them in several states ;for instance, disabled, hot etc. However; free images can only be downloaded in a singular size and state License: You may encounter some issues with the licenses that are free; you will not have the liberty to make changes to the icons nor will you have the permission to utilize them as many times as you want but with professional icon collections, you can incorporate the images in web designing as many times and in any project as you deem fit. Utility: Commercial stock icons will generally contain quite a few graphics to suit all your application and web designing expectation but with free graphics even if you were to procure images of an acceptable quality, they are far and few between which means that you may find it very hard to make use of these graphics when designing applications or websites. ![]()
| Copyright © 2006-2022 Aha-Soft. All rights reserved. |
|