Images & Videos thumbnails: Visual differentiator

[XnTriq]

The notifier icon (film-strip) and the translucent action symbol (play) in the following mock-up are ment as an either/or type of proposition:

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  [ z00m ]

• Jeroen Wijering: JW FLV Media Player
• CNN.com: Breaking News Videos » play_off.png / play_on.png
• TinyPic.com: Videos » playOverlay.png

[JohnFredC]

Those look "real good" to me!

I personally would choose to place the symbols inwards from the border by 1 or two pixels. The currentl location of the checkbox (flush with the upper left corner) drives my aesthetic sense crazy...

[XnTriq]

Thanks for your comments, John.

I personally would choose to place the symbols inwards from the border by 1 or two pixels. The currentl location of the checkbox (flush with the upper left corner) drives my aesthetic sense crazy...

Yes, I know what you mean. I've spent more time than I care to admit on finding better settings.

Appearance:

• Border: 1 █ RGB(140, 140, 140)
  Spacing: 4
  [ ] Use shadow
  [ ] Background colour
  [x] Thumbnail back colour: █ RGB(140, 140, 140)
  [x] Flat style

Thumbnail Label:

• Text colour: █ RGB(0, 0, 0)
  Text back colour: █ RGB(255, 255, 255)
  [ ] Spacing between labels

[helmut]

Very nice icons and cool draft, XnTriq! Did you draw them yourselves? What's the copyright situation?

[XnTriq]

Very nice icons and cool draft, XnTriq!

Glad you like'em, Helmut. =)

Did you draw them yourselves? What's the copyright situation?

For many of these it's going to be next to impossible to trace back their “ancestry”. I mean, they're just all over the web!
What I did was to reduce the originals' shape, size and color to the most abstract form in order to have them match those in info1.bmp of the default skin — hopefully without making them unrecognizable:

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The last symbol on the right is based on CNN's decade-old video_icon.gif (no longer in use).