Icon Library

It’s incredible how icons, these tiny, sometimes elusive cute illustrations can do so much for your work. Icon creation has become a giant industry because of the many, many advantages they can bring to any design. They add visual cues to your headings, work as buttons, separate your website sections, and overall give polish and professionalism to your web or application.

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We are experimenting with a new design here, both simplistic and modern. Icons included are Iphone, Hp Touchsmart, a Generic PC, an imac, and a Samsung Cellphone. I wonder if there is any Iconshock reader out there who actually owns all this stuff at once.

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Aside of being a 100% necessary  in software apps; icons are really useful in the content of a web design.

Nowdays, when we are interested in communicate and offer a product or an idea,  a web page is the main tool that we use in XXI century.  If you are a designer you must now that the design is the most important way to attract customers and that’s why  diferent companies  come to us, they are always waiting the best image for their Project, but as web designers, do we always think of the importance of an icon?, I mean not thinking in a general image, or design, I am talking about particularly of icons.  My first experience with icon meanings was with iconkshock. I’ve never thought  how significant is an icon style in a software and in a web design development.

There are  thousands of styles, more than you’ve never known, than can make your website or any digital application so much more fascinated. The greatest fact is that an icon is never going to be only a decorative image, a good icon always can talk. A good icon acts like the best summary ever.

I would like to know, ¿what do you think about this issue?, It’d be really good to have comments from designers about what they think  when a customer asks them to create a web design and also I would like to have comments from these customers, to know what they hope when they need web design.  Is the word “Icon” always present in any web design that someone asks you for?

It’s an icon just a decorative image, a complement for the text or for you a good icon, a real one is the principal language of your website?

Picasa is a google application, which allows you to see most of bitmap formats, among them you can see the most populars: .png – .jpg – .gif – .ico – etc…

Besides being the greatest image viewer, is the easiest way to share, search, organize and edit your images, photos, graphics and also you can convert them in movie clips, collages, and it gives you the opportunity to filter your files. You can choose if you want to see only portrait pictures, movies or images you’ve cataloged as the most specials and a lot more.

This application Works in Mac, Windows XP/Vista or Linux and you can use it as the principal application to open any kind of new images that you import in your computer.
Picasa finds your documents and organize them from albums, files and any other material that is related with an image.

You really should try it: http://www.picasaweb.google.com

Iconshock.com has developed a Community where every week free icons are given. You can swap your icons to other users in order to expand your collection. We invite you to register and start taking advantage of the fabulous icons. This week, Vista style icons with the Japan and Sailing themes we’re launched. Here are some previews:

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A favicon (favorite icon) is the icon that browsers display next to a webpage’s URL. This is fully customizable and it is used in order to represent the image of a site, and create remembrance of it among the visitors. Some favicons are quite popular, others just don’t work as well. Take a look at the picture below; I’m sure you can recognize a couple of the icons there.

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An icon is a representation of an object which we can select in order to perform a particular operation. Through years, icons have evolved, showing more outstanding graphics and at the same time, allowing multiple file types depending on the use we have for them. Read more…

Despite what it seems, creating an icon is not an easy job. There is a long and complicated process behind every single icon, where every designer has to follow some basic rules in order to have excellent results. There is no right or wrong way to get started in the Icon Design industry, but there are some steps you shouldn’t miss in order to get better results.
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Doing some research about all the different topics related to design, specifically icon design, I read a lot about the two most common icon formats: Bitmaps and Vector Graphics.
Bitmap is an image file format which stores in an array the color information for each pixel. This type of images have a fixed resolution and resizing causes quality lost. File sizes of bitmap images tend to be quite big compared to vector size, that’s why they are usually compressed, causing us to sacrifice quality in order to get a lower size of the file. On the other hand, Vector Graphics are images composed by points, lines and primitive shapes, also known as paths, which can be filled by colors or patterns. Differently from Bitmaps, information of how should the image must be drawn is stored when a Vector Graphic is created, instead of how should it look. When working with Vector Graphics we find several qualities such as, lower size of files and better quality of images. We can also re size our graphics and have the exact same quality we had in the resolution we created it, unlike bitmaps, which tend to loose quality and blur when we scale them. So, if Vector Graphics work so well, why are there still professionals who rather create they’re icons in a bitmap format?
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