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Icon sizes: 256x256, 100x100, 64x64, 60x60, 48x48, 40x40, 32x32, 30x30, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Making Icons for Windows Vista ProjectsRead about the latest trends in designing modern Windows Vista-style buttons for your products and Web projects.Producing software or developing a Web site? Ensure your project looks modern and contemporary by checking the pictures used against current standards. This text explains the newest trends in making contemporary, good-looking graphics for your off-line and Web projects. With every new release of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is important to read and understand the guidelines. Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from older XP-style icons in several ways. The style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the largest size of the images 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 sizes, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective. Well-designed and carefully thought of graphics enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great images improve usability and efficiency of software, making it simpler to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make objects and actions easier to find and to use day by day. Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of ready-made application and toolbar icon images 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 sizes, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Simply visit 777 icons to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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