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Creating Button Images for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Applications
Learn about the latest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style images for your products and Web projects.Developing software or developing a Web site? Ensure your project looks current and up-to-date by checking the icons used against modern standards. This text explains the latest trends in making modern, good-looking icons for your software and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image designers. If you want your project 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 previously used XP-style icons in several ways. The drawing style of the new images becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the maximum size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look detailed on modern high resolution monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and 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 icons improve usability and efficiency of software, making it simpler to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make buttons and actions simpler to find and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of ready-made application and toolbar icons drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes, including the recently defined 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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