Aha-Soft ArtIcons Pro contains all tools you need for creating and editing Windows icons and managing icon libraries. The program is friendly enough for the casual user who wants to tweak a couple of standard .ICO files, yet powerful enough for the professional graphic designer who needs to create original icons and manage extensive icon libraries.
ArtIcons Pro 5.28 is the newest version of its award winning icon design software for the Windows OS. This version, aside from rendering its assistance in creating, editing icon images and managing icon files and libraries, provides great opportunities for working with Vista Icons. If you couldn't work with Vista Icons previously, now with the new version of Articons Pro it is going to be no trouble at all. From now onwards you will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression.
Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images - they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, Articons Pro is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.
A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. Aha-Soft has again found a way to cast off these shackles: Articons Pro 5.28 uses advanced PNG compression to save images without losses and supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel. That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.
Previous versions of the program have managed to hand on all their eminent features to the new version: Articons Pro 5.28 is equipped with all essential drawing tools including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software also offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects. The program features easy converting from one image format into another.
Articons Pro 5.28 will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your program's most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Visa Icons crafted by Articons Pro 5.28 will strongly impact users' overall impression of your programs' visual design. Articons Pro will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.
Articons Pro 5.28 Benefits at a Glance:
- Vista Aero-style Icons support;
- PNG format to compress high-resolution images without losses;
- Saving Vista Icons without compression provides compatibility with XP;
- Find and extract, edit, import and export icons and manage icon libraries;
- Lot's of delicate power instruments for creating and editing icons;
- Import and export ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc. images;
- Multilanguage support.
- Support for Windows Vista icons
- Ability to draw smooth lines and shapes
- New effects
- New color palette
Supported File Formats
Import support
Export support
ICO - Windows Icon
ICNS - Apple Icon Image
CUR - Windows Cursor
BMP - Windows Bitmap
JPG - JPEG JFIF Image
GIF - CompuServe Graphics Interchange
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PSD - Adobe Photoshop Image
XPM - X Pixmap Format
XBM - X Bitmap Format
WBMP - WAP Bitmap
ICPR - Icon Project
RC - Resource Script File
ICL - Icon Library
ICC - Icon Collection
Export and import support for palettes
PAL - Microsoft Palette ACT - Color Table BMP - Bitmap RC - Color Table Resource
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