Fortunately, your options are no longer limited to in-house or outsourced graphics. Today, you can buy stock images that are readily available and can be used instantly after the purchase. Your choices are virtually limitless; you can choose between hundreds of individual images and matching sets of icons, pictures, photos, cartoons, raster and vector files. Needless to say, all of them vary greatly in quality of individual images as well as collections of those.

If you need your icons XP style, here's one of the better collections of images on the market. http://www.awicons.com/stock-icons/xp-artistic-icons/ are professionally drawn in strict accordance with Windows XP style guidelines, and assembled into a library of 501 images with matching style, colors and gamma. With , you can design professional-looking software and Web sites with minimum effort!

Technically, icons from come in a variety of sizes, file formats and color depths. Raster images are supplied in resolutions of 16x16 to 128x128 pixels, and come in 256 colors and XP/Vista True Color with semi-transparency. Four states are available and supplied with your purchase: Normal, Hot, Disabled, and Grey. All icons are available in ICO, GIF, and PNG formats for using right away in your target project.

In case of , you receive more than just icons! Your purchase of raster icons gets you a supplementary business license for AWicons Pro, .

If you need bigger, smaller or non-standard resolution icons, vector sources are also available in AI format. AI vector images can be used to create icons of any size, resolution or color depth. You get the benefit of crisp edges and overall professional looks even in the largest images suitable for printing poster-size. If you purchase the vector sources, you'll receive a supplementary license for Cover Commander, .

All 501 can be viewed online - you'll know exactly what you get! Visit http://www.awicons.com/stock-icons/xp-artistic-icons/ to view the library and place your order.

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Another collection of XP-style icons? With , you receive more than just icons! Supplementary licenses to graphic editor and cover creator software are included with .