ArtIcons Pro 5.28

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 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.

Articons Pro 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 Vista Icons crafted by Articons Pro 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.

- 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