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Icon Workshop: Make Windows Icons and Edit Icons with the Icon Maker
IconLover is a powerful icon editor that can be used to edit icons and an icon maker that is very efficient at creating Windows icons. Discussed here are some of the features of this tool and what it can do to improve the quality of the icons that you design.
With IconLover you can:
- Manage icons, static and animated cursors, icon libraries, image lists
- Create and edit smooth semi-transparent icons, static and animated cursors for Windows XP
- Create and edit icons in standard and custom sizes, with color depth up to 32-bit True Color
- Paint images with gradient and chess fill
- Create multi-layer images
- Modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror effects
- Import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, ANI, CUR, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, WMF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and Adobe Photoshop PSD image formats
- Manage icon libraries for better and more efficient image storage
- Extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files
- Modify icons inside executables
- Search in folders for icons
- Convert or apply effects to multiple icons at once
- Customize desktop and folder icons
System requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista/7, 16 MB RAM, Pentium-133 MHz, 8 MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode.
Trial limitations: 30-day trial period, nag screen.
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If you are looking for a powerful and easy to use icon editor that can help you to work on Windows icon, extract, find, create and edit icons and can also be used for managing image lists and icon libraries; you simply cannot go wrong with Iconlover available at windows-icon-editor.com. This fantastic tool serves a lot of purpose so let's take a look at some of the things that you can do with the Iconlover.
You can manage animated and static cursors, all your icons in the image library, create and manage image lists and manage icons. This tool will also help you to create and edit Windows icon so that you can get images that are smooth and semi transparent. You will not only be able to work on icon images but also on static and animated cursors that are used in Windows XP. You can also change the images and create them in custom sizes with color depth up to 32 bits.
The tool lets you chess fill the images and paint them with gradient, you can also create multi layer images; modify them, use opacity, drop shadows, negative, smooth, grayscale, mirror effect , roll, colorize and rotate the icons to make them as unique as possible. The icon maker also lets you import and export images in various formats such as JPEG, ICO, PNG, BMP, ANI, TGA, WMF, XBM, TIFF, XPM, Adobe Photoshop PSD and WBMP formats.
Use this tool to efficiently manage image libraries for better icon storage, you will also be able to extract the icons from your computer; for instance, you will be able to get icons from Windows libraries, executables and also use the Windows animated cursors. Another feature of the tool is the ability to modify the icons inside the executables. This is a high end, well rounded program that can be used to create some of the most marvelous graphics.
The next tool is called ArtIcons; this is an extremely user friendly tool that can be used by experts and amateurs alike. The features of this program are almost similar to the features of Iconlover. With this tool, you will also be able to extract the images from all folders and subfolders and collect them in the icon library. With this icon maker and icon editor, you will also be able to convert Mac icons to a Windows compatible format. And just like the other tool, you can use the ArtIcons drag and drop icons from different libraries while the tool offers interfaces in several languages such as German, English, Spanish and others. You get a 30 day trial period to try out these tools; you should certainly go ahead and give this software a look. It is one of the best pieces of coding for working on Windows icons.
The best part is that both tools come with detailed instructions and serve as an icon workshop that can be used to make and edit icons to suit your requirements.
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ArtIcons Pro is popular Windows icon editor. It enables professional and amateur artists to design and edit all kinds of icons.
It supports ICO, BMP, PNG, GIF, ICPR, PSD, XPM, XBM, WBMP, CUR, ANI formats. German interface is available.
ArtCursors allows you to find, create, edit, import and export cursors and manage cursor libraries. It supports static and animated cursors.
Any to Icon converts icons and cursors into BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ICO, CUR and other formats. This wizard can find icons and make images for use on Web pages.
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