ArtIcons Pro description
ArtIcons Pro allows professional and amateur alike to create and edit icon images and manage icon files and libraries

Aha-soft ArtIcons Pro is made for efficient icon creation and management and gives you a lot of features that cannot be found in standard graphics applications

Among those features is the ability to import icons from executables image and library files and the search and extract function that enables busy artists scan through the contents of a folder or a drive and arrange all images found in any files into a single icon library for easy and effective management

This program features a sufficiently improved image editor that offers graphic artists a number of breakthrough features including the ability to create icons with several raster layers To support the multi-layer feature a new image format - Icon Project - was introduced Layers give you more freedom in using complex graphic tools and creating professionally looking images

This new feature enables Aha-Soft ArtIcons to rival any high-end graphics package In fact it is better than any of these high-end tools when you consider creation of icons and other small graphics

ArtIcons Pro 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 is equally well equipped in the effects department and offers a variety of solid patterned and gradient flood fills drop shadow smooth color modification and other effects

The native Windows XP icon format support enables artists to create 32-bit icons with 8-bit alpha channels The program can import and export ICO BMP JPEG ANI CUR PNG XPM XBM WBMP PSD WMF RC and GIF files

Other new features include the ability to create edit and import large images support for export and import of transparent PNG images new interface languages including Catalan Serbian Swedish and Brazil Portuguese ability to export icon libraries to single 32-bit bitmap images new flood fill patterns and effects and more

Here are some key features of ArtIcons Pro

Create and edit PNG-packed Windows Vista icons
Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes
in color depths up to 16 million colors
Create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth
with 8-bit alpha channel
Create and store images containing several layers
Paint images with gradient and chess fill
Modify images with drop shadow opacity smooth negative grayscale
colorize hue/saturation color replacement rotate roll and mirror effects
Open and edit ICO ICPR BMP JPEG and PNG images
Export icon images to ICO ICPR BMP JPEG and PNG files
Create and manage icon libraries for better and more
efficient icon storage
Modify icons inside executables and other program files
Extract icons from Windows executables libraries
and animated cursor files
Extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders
and save them as icon libraries
Delete identical icons in libraries
Sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries
Customize Windows Desktop and folder icons
Drag and drop files from file shells
Drag and drop icons between different libraries
Use English Spanish German and other interfaces
Import GIF Adobe Photoshop PSD WMF XPM XBM and WBMP images
DCR and RES files CUR and ANI cursor files
Import MAC OS icons
Export images to GIF Adobe Photoshop PSD RC XPM XBM WBMP
and CUR files
Import and export icon color palettes
Work with image lists in BMP and PNG formats
Export library items into one single image
Split icon libraries into individual icon files
Split icons into sub-icons


Requirements

64MB RAM
Pentium-333 MHz
4MB Hard Disk
True Color video mode