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Icon sizes: 256x256, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Have you considered using stock icons?There is definitely no lack of online businesses that provide stock icons; however, people often ponder if including these stock icons will change the look of their web designs and software programs; so, here is an analysis of how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are designing a website or are creating an application, 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 application or website from being merely functional to one that is is professional looking, user friendly and eye catching. However, creating your personal graphics can be nothing short of harrowing 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 have to dole out a small fortune for the graphics. On the other hand, you can find the precise quality from icon collections available online for a relatively low cost. A collection of stock icons usually has more than 100 images, provided in different graphic formats that are perfect for showing the functions common to every second websites and software programs; for example, help, lock , copy, paste and others. If you could not find stock icons that live up to you expectations, you can also get in touch one of these internet businesses and request them to create exclusive icons for you; this is probably the most preferable option; to put it simply, the original graphics artist will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to retain some degree of similarity throughout the series of images associated with a distinct theme. The second question that most people think about is whether they should choose the commercial graphics or get free icon sets, so here is some insight on the positive attributes of commercial icon collections over the free collections: Price: The cost of an collection of graphics is generally in the vicinity of $100 and above depending on the quantity of images. However, free icon collections will generally have royalty problems and/or you will have to offer accreditations when they are put to use on your site. Size: Good quality con sets can be purchased in a plethora of sizes, so even if you purchase a singular image, you will get them in different sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also get them in various states ;for instance, disabled, hot etc. However; free images can only be procured in a single state and size License: You may encounter some problems with the a license that costs nothing; you will not have the liberty to modify the icons in anyway nor will you have the permission to use them as many times as you want but with professional icon collections, you can utilize the stock icons innumerable times in the most esoteric contexts. Usability: Good icon libraries will generally contain quite a few graphics to suit all your application and web graphic requirements ; however, with free graphics even if you do find fairly good graphics, they are far and few between which means that you will not be able to incorporate them in your applications. ![]()
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