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Icon sizes: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512, 256x256 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Designing Graphics for Windows Vista and Windows 7 ProjectsRead about the latest trends in producing modern Windows Vista-style images for your products and Web sites.Developing standalone application or developing an online project? Ensure your product looks modern and contemporary by checking the pictures used against current standards. This text explains the newest trends in drawing modern, good-looking icons for your off-line and on-line projects. With every new release of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines. Not going 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 images becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the largest size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that programs look good 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 images in Windows Vista have no extra 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. Great images improve usability and efficiency of products, 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 every day. Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icon images designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the graphics share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in programs designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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