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Designing Graphics for Windows Vista Applications

Read about the newest trends in designing modern Windows Vista-style graphics for your software and Web projects.

Developing software or designing a Web site? Ensure your project looks modern and contemporary by checking the graphics used against modern standards. This article explains the newest trends in designing modern, good-looking graphics for your off-line and on-line projects.

Ready Icons for Vista

With every new version of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project 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 icons differ from previously used XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new icons becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the largest size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look good on modern hi-definition displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar icons bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar icons in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are front-faced (flat) with no perspective.

Well-designed and thought of icons 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 software, making it easier to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make objects and actions easier to find and to use every day.

Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icons drawn in the new Windows Vista style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Simply visit www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.

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Make your software look as nice as Vista with icons crafted in the same style

Vista Toolbar Icons. A collection of practical and eye catching icons representing all basic operations required for surfing the internet or using various applications.

Business Icon Set is a collection of top- quality stock icons for use in software and on Web projects. They are delivered in a variety of formats, sizes and color schemes.

Medical Icons for Vista has been design to eliminate any misconceptions appearing while looking at a medical Web site or operating a medical software. The icons are available in numerous sizes and formats.

Small Toolbar Icons will give new life to your project's GUI and add a great value to your product or website. This icon pack includes all the images you need to complete your project's design.