{"id":141,"date":"2005-10-17T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=141"},"modified":"2017-06-23T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T01:10:27","slug":"creating-windows-xp-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/creating-windows-xp-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Windows XP Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft MSDN contains a 19-page document that discusses how to design and create colorful and dynamic icons for Windows XP using a vector program, such as FreeHand or Illustrator, and Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Windows XP introduces a new style in icon design. The guidelines in the document walks you through the steps of designing and creating Windows XP-style icons.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows XP icon style is all about fun, color, and energy&#8212;and, as there are now 32-bit versions of the icons, smooth edges. Each icon is rendered in a vector program and then manipulated in Adobe Photoshop to create a beautiful image.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, the guidelines are geared towards designers and they recommend you work with a good graphic designer, especially one with experience in using vector or 3D programs, to create your images, like the ones shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/10\/XP_icons.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/10\/XP_icons.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\/\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft MSDN contains a 19-page document that discusses how to design and create colorful and dynamic icons for Windows XP using a vector program, such as FreeHand or Illustrator, and Photoshop. Microsoft Windows XP introduces a new style in icon design. The guidelines in the document walks you through the steps of designing and creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}