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Image sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO Should you use stock icons?There is definitely no shortage of websites that provide stock icons; however, people often wonder if incorporating these stock icons will prove advantageous to their website template and applications; so, here is an analysis of how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are a web designer or writing a program, you probably know that graphics are often the major impact creators; they can change your program or site from being just functional to one that is has a professional touch, user friendly and attractive. However, making 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 hire the services of a web graphics designer, you will end up paying him a small fortune for the icons. On the other hand, you will be able to get similar quality from web graphics sold online for a fraction of the cost. A set of stock icons can include more than 100 images, provided in different file formats that are perfect for depicting the functions that are popularly seen on every second websites and software programs; for example, help, lock , copy, paste and others. If you don't buy icons that meet your needs, you can also contact one of these online establishments and tell them to design specialized graphics for you; this is by far the most suitable option; simply, the the person who created the other icons in the series will be in a better position to retain some degree of consistency in all the icons in a series associated with a particular theme. The next question that most people think about is whether they should choose the commercial images or get free icon sets, so here is some insight on the benefits of commercial icon collections over the free collections: Price: The rate of an icon collection can be in the range of $100 and over depending on the quantity of images. However, free graphics will usually have infringement related problems and/or you will need to include accreditations while using them. Size: Commercial quality con sets are available in a myriad of sizes, so even if you buy one icon, you should get them in several sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also buy them in several states such as disabled, hot etc. On the other hand; free images are only available in a one state and size License: You may have to face some concerns with the licenses that are free; you will not be able to make changes to the icons nor will you have a free hand to utilize 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: Professional icon sets will generally have enough images to cover all your application and website design requirements ; however, with free images even if you were to procure images of an acceptable quality, they are far and few between this would mean that you may find it very hard to make use of these graphics when designing applications or websites.
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