ArtIcons 5.24

ArtIcons 5.24 offers you a great tool which is designed to provide great opportunities for working with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons. 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 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 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 will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your programs most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Vista Icons crafted by ArtIcons will strongly impact users overall impression of your programs visual design. ArtIcons will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.

Major Features:

1. Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors
2. Create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel
3. Create and store images containing several layers
4. Paint images with gradient and chess fill
5. Modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, rotate, roll and mirror effects
6. Replace image colors
7. Create and manage icon libraries for better and more efficient storage
8. Paste images in various graphic formats (ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG) directly into icons
9. Export icon images to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files
10. Extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files
11. Extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries
12. Convert Mac icons to Windows format
13. Modify icons inside executables and other program files
14. Sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries
15. Customize Windows Desktop and folder icons
16. Drag and drop files from file shells
17. Drag and drop icons between different libraries
18. Use English, Spanish, German and other interfaces
19. Interface languages: English, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese (BIG5), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyr), Serbian (Lat), Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

 Enhancements: Fixed: Some bugs with ICO files

Requirements:

1. 64MB RAM,
2. Pentium-333 MHz,
3. 4MB Hard Disk,
4. True Color video mode

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