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The World Through the Viewfinder, a Classic “Landscape Mode” Free Material

This is an illustration of a mountain drawn inside a square frame, often seen on the shooting mode selection screen of digital cameras and smartphones. The square frame symbolizes the “frame” or “viewfinder” of a photograph, and the mountain symbolizes “majestic nature,” making it universally used as a metaphor for “landscape photography” that captures the entire scenery spreading before your eyes. It is a design that intuitively conveys that it is a photograph itself or visual content.

Specific Usage Scenes and Suggested Applications

This material can be utilized in any scene that prompts the experience of “seeing,” from photo gallery UIs to navigation in tourism and travel media.

• For “Photo Gallery / Construction Examples” Pages on Websites
  Ideal as a link button to a “Photo list page” or as a category heading on portfolio sites or corporate construction example pages. By simply adding this mark along with the text “Photo Gallery,” users instantly recognize that “there is visual content here.” Because it appeals to intuition before reading text, it can be expected to improve the click-through rate (CTR) and encourage roaming within the site. It serves as effective navigation to foster user expectations, especially when you want to show the appeal of architecture, interior design, food, etc., which cannot be fully conveyed in words, through the “power of photographs.”
• For Guidance on “Superb View Spots” in Travel and Tourism Media
  As a mark for sections introducing “Highlights,” “Scenic Points,” and “Photo Spots” on tourist information sites and travel blogs. It functions as a versatile mark indicating “beautiful scenery” in general, regardless of the subject genre, such as mountains, seas, or townscapes. It visually reinforces information like “The view from here is the best” or “Instagrammable spot,” strongly stimulating users’ motivation to travel, making them think “I want to go there” or “I want to see it with my own eyes.” It is also effective to use as a “Tourist attraction pin” displayed on maps like Google Maps.
• For “Mode Switching” UIs in Camera Apps and Photo Editing Tools
  It can be used as a button to select “Landscape Mode” or “Background Adjustment” in the UI (User Interface) of internally developed camera apps or image editing software. This “Mountain and Frame” design instantly conveys that it is a “mode to take beautiful pictures of distant scenery” even to casual users who do not understand technical terms like ISO sensitivity or aperture values. It functions as a universal design to achieve intuitive operability, as it is easy to distinguish even when lined up with macro (flower) or portrait (person) marks.
• For “Image Upload” Buttons on SNS and Bulletin Boards
  As a button indicating the function to “Add a photo” in bulletin boards or SNS posting forms where users can post images. By placing it near the text input field, it appeals the feature that “You can post photos as well as text.” While a camera illustration strongly implies “Take a picture right now,” this photo frame illustration also includes the nuance of “Select an existing photo from a folder,” making it a suitable design when encouraging uploads from a library.
• For “Wallpaper / Background Settings” Menus on PCs and Smartphones
  As an icon for “Background settings” to change the desktop wallpaper or talk room background image on the settings screen of an OS or application. It suggests that you can change the drab default screen to a landscape photo of your liking. It is a small but important UI part to stimulate users’ desire for customization and make them use the service with attachment.

Editing Tips and the Merits of the EPS Format

Completely free for both commercial and personal use. In addition to PNG and SVG that can be used immediately on the web, we also provide EPS data that is easy to process to match your design as a set.

By utilizing the EPS format (vector data), you can fine-tune the shape of the mountain and the position of the sun. Using software like Adobe Illustrator, you can create icons tailored to more specific situations by redrawing the mountain into a “group of buildings” for a “cityscape,” or changing the sun to a “moon” for “night view mode.”
It is also recommended to arrange the shape of the frame to match the design taste of the site, such as thickening the frame lines to make it look like a “Polaroid” or rounding the corners to make it look like a “smartphone screen.”

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