Full support for Windows Vista™ PNG-compressed icons
IconWorkshop™ loads, creates, edits, saves icons for Windows Vista™. This new operating system, includes a PNG-compressed icon format. It permits to create icons up to 256x256 with alpha channel with smaller file size.
Axialis IconWorkshop™ now fully supports this new format in all features: edition, automatic format creation, batch creation, batch conversion, format normalization... Don't wait and create today your icons for Windows Vista™.
• Introducing Windows Vista™ icons
• How to create Windows Vista™ icons with IconWorkshop™?
Create quality icons for Windows® and Mac OS®
Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the first icon editor which permits to create Windows® and Macintosh® icons. You can easily create icons for both systems. IconWorkshop™ creates Windows® icons up to XP and Macintosh® icons up to 256x256 Tiger® (Mac OS® 10.4).
Windows® XP and Mac OSX® come with a generations of icons using variable transparency. This feature permits to create beautiful icons with smooth borders and shadows. You need a professional tool to create such icons. Axialis IconWorkshop™ has been designed with one goal in mind: "Icon Quality".
Enjoy the powerful editor which permits to create the various image formats of an icon from an original drawing without quality loss.
Create attractive icons using Image Objects
The first Axialis Object Pack for icons has been included in IconWorkshop™. It is a library of 150 image objects which will permit you to create an unlimited number of icons with various glossy effects and shapes simply using drag & drop.
The images come in 256x256 high-quality PNG format. It permits to easily create icons containing various sizes up to 256x256 for Windows® XP, Windows Vista™ and MacOS®.
• What is an image object?
• How to use image objects to create icons?
Convert icons between Macintosh® and Windows®
Mac OS® designers are prolific, especially when it comes to icon creation. Use IconWorkshop™ to read Mac icons and convert them to Windows®. It reads all kind of Mac® icons up to Tiger® (OSX 10.4).
If you're a software developer, you'll enjoy the ability to create applications for both Windows® and Macintosh® platforms by converting your icons. If you're simply a Windows® user you'll be able to use Macintosh® icons on your Windows® XP desktop.
This new version includes a feature which permits to convert icons between the two systems in batch-processing mode (several icons are converted in one fast operation).
IconWorkshop™ fully supports MacBinary file format. It permits to easily transfer icons between Macintosh® and Windows®.
Automatically create icons from images
Axialis IconWorkshop™ features a powerful editor. But sometimes it's easier to create an icon from an existing image. Basically, you can import all kind of existing images: PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF...
An exclusive feature permits to create an icon, with its several image formats, in just one operation! All is done automatically: Alpha channel is preserved, palettes are calculated for 256 color formats and even 16 color formats with transparency are generated.
Export icons to images to illustrate your applications
If you create applications, you know that images are required to create an attractive user interface. IconWorkshop™ permits to export any image included in an icon (Windows®/Macintosh®) to an external bitmap file. You'll be able to easily use these images in your program to create beautiful toolbars for example.
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Powerful Editor
IconWorkshop™ features an editor with advanced functions: Easily create images formats using one command, import/export images, resize, ajust with numerous filters, change hue, contrast, lightness, drop shadows and more...
Create composite icons using drag & drop
An exclusive feature permits to create composite icons using mouse drag & drop only. Just place your different objects in the icon using the mouse and create all the image formats in a snap!
Integrated workspace
IconWorkshop™ features a fully integrated workspace. This is the way today's professional applications are made. Additionally it has been developped in C++ using Microsoft® MFC which is the industry standard in software engineering. It results in a fast and strong-coded application.
Some icon software available today are made of several programs resulting in applications which are difficult to use. In IconWorkshop™, all features are immediately available on screen. It permits you to work efficiently and be more productive than ever. The multi-documents interface permits you to work with several and different types of document windows (icon projects, libraries, images, file explorers...).
Advanced Help
An exhaustive help system has been implemented including getting started lessons, how-to procedures and the reference manual. Also a contextual help permits to get help when using dialog boxes.
Compatible with graphic industry standards
You can import PSD images with layers from Photoshop® and easily create a multi-resolution icon from a program or company logo.
Now use Photoshop and Illustrator plug-ins to transfer images directly in memory and make your icon in a few clicks. No more temporary document files.
Batch Procedures
Numerous batch procedures have been implemented in IconWorkshop™ to automatically perform operations on a large number of files. For example, you can create icons from a set of PNG files (ICO files are created). You can also automatically convert several icons between Macintosh® and Windows® OS in seconds.
Librarian & Explorer with previews
Use a powerful librarian to easily manage all your media and icon files. This is a dockable window (which can be hidden) where you can store, move, copy and extract all the files you're using in your work (images, icons, libraries).
Also, A built-in file explorer permits to browse your disks and find files including images and all files containing icons. This advanced explorer permits to display files in thumbnail mode. By a simple click you open any file in a viewer or editor window
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