- Name: ArtIcons 5.20
- File Size: 2.37MB
- Date: 18 Jun 2008
- License: Shareware
- Price: $29.95 (Order Now!)
- Eval: 30 Days
- System Requirements: Win 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP2003/Vista/Vista x64, Pentium-333 MHz, 64MB RAM, 4MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode.
ArtIcons provides 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 program's 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. More info-Aha-soft
Name: ArtIcons Pro 5.20
File Size: 2.37MB
Date: 25 Jan 2008
License: Shareware
Price: $39.95 (Order Now!)
Eval: 30 Days
System Requirements: Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Vista x64, Pentium-133 MHz, 16MB RAM, 2 MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode.
ArtIcons Pro provides 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 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 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. More info-Aha-soft
Name: Icon Craft 4.17
File Size: 2.24MB
Date: 15 Feb 2008
License: Shareware
Price: $49.95 (Order Now!)
Eval: Nag-screen, up to 7 files can be saved, unlimited trial period.
System Requirements: Win 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003, 64 MB RAM, Pentium 300 MHz, 10 MB Hard Disk, True Color video card.
Icon Craft gives professional and amateur artists the ability to design and edit all the graphics required in the software development cycle, including icons, static and animated cursors, and other interface elements. All these graphics can now be designed using a single application. Icon Craft offers a variety of features that cannot be found in standard graphics applications. Icon Craft includes the ability to import icons from executables, image and library files. The built-in search and extract function enables busy artists to 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 greatly improved image editor that offers graphic artists a number of breakthrough features, including the ability to create icons with several raster layers. Layers give you more freedom in using complex graphic tools and creating professional images. This new feature enables Icon Craft to rival any high-end graphics package. In fact, when considering icon creation, Icon Craft is already at the top of the list. Icon Craft is supplied with all the essential drawing tools, including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes, as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software is well equipped in the effects department too and offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects. The native support for the Windows XP icon format enables artists to create 32-bit icons. Icon Craft also includes a number of unique features, such as the ability to apply effects to multiple images in the icon collection. Other new features in Icon Craft include the support for large images, the ability to export and import transparent PNG images, the ability to export all images from a library to a single 32-bit image and an improved interface. More info-Icon Empire