Aha-soft ArtIcons Pro is made for efficient icon creation and management and gives you a lot of features that cannot be found in standard graphics applications.

Among those features is the ability to import icons from executables, image and library files and the search and extract function that enables busy artists 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 sufficiently improved image editor that offers graphic artists a number of breakthrough features, including the ability to create icons with several raster layers. To support the multi-layer feature, a new image format - Icon Project - was introduced. Working with layers will offer you more freedom when using complex graphic tools and creating professionally looking images.

This new feature enables Aha-Soft ArtIcons to rival any high-end graphics package. In fact, it is better than any of these high-end tools when you consider creation of icons and other small graphics.

ArtIcons Pro is equipped with all essential drawing tools including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools.

The software is equally well equipped in the effects department and offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects.

The native Windows XP icon format support enables artists to create 32-bit icons with 8-bit alpha channels. The program can import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, ANI, CUR, PNG, XPM, XBM, WBMP, PSD, WMF, RC and GIF files.

Other new features include the ability to create, edit and import large images, support for export and import of transparent PNG images, new interface languages including Catalan, Serbian, Swedish and Brazil Portuguese, ability to export icon libraries to single 32-bit bitmap images, new flood fill patterns and effects, and more.

Here are some key features of "ArtIcons Pro":

· Create and edit PNG-packed Windows Vista icons
· Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors
· Create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel
· Create and store images containing several layers
· Paint images with gradient and chess fill
· Modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, color replacement, rotate, roll and mirror effects
· Open and edit ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG images
· Export icon images to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files
· Create and manage icon libraries for better and more efficient icon storage
· Modify icons inside executables and other program files
· Extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files
· Extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders
· and save them as icon libraries
· Delete identical icons in libraries
· Sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries
· Customize Windows Desktop and folder icons
· Drag and drop files from file shells
· Drag and drop icons between different libraries
· Use English, Spanish, German and other interfaces
· Import GIF, Adobe Photoshop PSD, WMF, XPM, XBM and WBMP images, DCR and RES files, CUR and ANI cursor files
· Import MAC OS icons
· Export images to GIF, Adobe Photoshop PSD, RC, XPM, XBM, WBMP and CUR files
· Import and export icon color palettes
· Work with image lists in BMP and PNG formats
· Export library items into one single image
· Split icon libraries into individual icon files
· Split icons into sub-icons

Requirements:

· 64MB RAM
· Pentium-333 MHz
· 4MB Hard Disk
· True Color video mode

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added: Color selection for Drop Shadow effect.