[RS.Com] Portable Axialis IconWorkshop 6.30

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Create, edit icons in Image Strips for toolbars

Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the only icon editor which permits creation and edition of Image Strips for toolbars. If you're a developer, don't struggle with wide bitmaps anymore! Just open them in IconWorkshop and edit each icon separetely.

It can read all kinds of Image Strips in BMP and PNG. Transparency is supported in 32 BPP images through Alpha channels and in 24 BPP or less images through a fixed background color.

Icons in image strips can be added, copied, moved and removed. You can also create new image strips from ready-to-use image objects in a few drag & drops. The object pack "Lite Toolbars" permits creating sharp and crips icons for toolbars.


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™.

Create hi-quality icons for Windows®, Mac OS®, Unix®

Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the first icon editor to create Windows®, Macintosh® and Unix® icons. You can easily create icons all major operating systems. IconWorkshop™ creates Windows® icons up to 256x256 for Windows Vista™ and Macintosh® icons up to 512x512 for Leopard (Mac OS® 10.5). Unix® uses PNG icons. Axialis IconWorkshop creates PNG images with alpha channel in a few clicks including from exising Windows® and MacOS® icons.

The new generation of icons uses variable transparency (a.k.a alpha channel). 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 use of image objects to ceate icons is an exclusive feature of IconWorkshop. It permits to create professional-looking icons in minutes using a few mouse drag & drops.

The principe is quite simple: A large quantity of basic image objects are provided in a library. By associating them together (on top of each other) you create a personalized icon:

The images objects, which have been made by professional designers, are provided in 256x256 high-quality PNG format. This permits you to easily create icons containing various sizes up to 256x256 for Windows® XP, Windows Vista™ and MacOS®. Read the following articles if you want to learn more:


Convert icons between MacOS® and Windows®

MacOS® designers are prolific, especially when it comes to create icons. Use IconWorkshop™ to read MacOS® icons and convert them to Windows®. It reads all kinds of Macintosh® icons up to OSX 10.4 Tiger and OSX 10.5 Leopard.

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 a Windows® user you'll be able to use Macintosh® icons on your Windows® XP desktop.

In addition, IconWorkshop™ 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™ supports the MacBinary file format which permits to transfer icons between Macintosh® and Windows® in a snap.

Automatically create icons from images

Axialis IconWorkshop™ features a powerful editor. But sometimes it's easier to create an icon from an existing image. You can import various file formats, such as PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF, JPEG2000...

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 websites

If you're a webmaster or have a blog, you know that illustrations are important to create attractive visitor experience. IconWorkshop™ permits to export images included in icons (Windows® or Macintosh®) to external bitmap files.

You'll be able to easily export these images in various Web-optimized formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG and JPEG2000.

Object packs named "Web 2.0 Icons" and "Web Illustrations" permit creating illustration images for your websites in a few seconds.

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[phillia]

Great share!! Thanks!!

[hamby]

You`r welcome.