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- Tips and Techniques
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- There's lots of cool stuff you can do with icons and documents.
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- On the Desktop
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- Consider selecting a given set or style to represent work you're doing.
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- Use different icons for each drive or volume; or use one icon for local volumes and other for networked volumes.
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- Use icons representing the contents of a document; for example, one person uses the bomb icon on any document representing a problem or dispute.
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- Use icons representing key themes (i.e., party icons for recreation, more serious icons for business)
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- In Applications
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- Icons are ideal for large and small bullet-lists.
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- If you're in a text-based document with fonts of 14pt or less, consider using the small icons.
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- If you're in a presentation or a multimedia project, consider using the larger icons.
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- You can scale up the icons (making things big and chunky) for special accents or end-of-section displays.
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- You can use scaled up icons with reduced contrast (using something like PhotoShop) to provide a Mac-like background texture.
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- Icons make spectacularly effective buttons in multimedia presentations.
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