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Designing Graphics for Windows Vista Projects
Read about the latest trends in designing modern Windows Vista-style images for your software and Web projects.Producing software or designing an online project? Make sure your application looks current and up-to-date by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing modern, good-looking graphics for your off-line and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image 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 images differ from older XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the maximum size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look good on modern high resolution displays. 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 graphics in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of images enhance the appearance of your products, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good icons improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it faster to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make objects and actions easier to learn and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icons designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the images share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard 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 view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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