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Creating Button Images for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Applications
Read about the latest trends in creating modern Windows Vista-style images for your software and Web projects.Developing software or designing an online project? Ensure your design looks modern and contemporary by checking the glyphs used against modern standards. This article explains the latest trends in making modern, good-looking icons for your software 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 understand the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from older XP-style graphics in several ways. The style of the new icons becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the maximum size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look detailed on modern hi-definition monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar icons in Windows Vista have no details such as shadows, and are front-faced 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. Great graphics improve usability and efficiency of software, making it faster to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make buttons and actions simpler to find and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icon images drawn 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, including the recently added 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in programs designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Simply visit 777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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