Greenfish Icon Editor Pro (GFIE Pro) is a powerful icon, cursor, animation, icon library and image editor.
Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing pixelgraphic images. GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries.
Due to its clean and customizable interface, even beginner users will be able to operate it with ease.
Here are some key features of "Greenfish Icon Editor Pro":
· Opening and saving in ICO, CUR, PNG, XPM, BMP and JPEG formats
· Creating icons up to 256x256 @ 32-bit
· Creating Vista(tm)-compatible, PNG compressed icons
· Sophisticated selecting tools like marquee, lasso and magic wand, as in a professional photo editor
· Creating and testing cursors
· Extracting icons and cursors from executable files
· Dynamic color depth: you do not have to specify it explicitly, Greenfish Icon Editor will determine it for you.
· Drawing lots of kinds of gradients
· Lots of filters including Hue shift, Remove matte and Drop shadow
· Sample icons are included
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved: GFIE will be cross-platform in the near future
· Rearranged user interface: tabs instead of MDI windows
· Greatly improved: image processing speed
· Added feature: loading/saving Apple ICNS files
· Added feature: loading/saving JPEG 2000 files
· Added feature: loading/saving 16-bit executables and icon libraries
· Added feature: pressing Escape deselects all
· Added feature: rotating selection by an arbitrary angle
· Added feature: textboxes which expect numbers can now accept and calculate expressions, like 12*(128+10)
· Added feature: Wand/Bucket can be switched to non-contiguous mode
· Added feature: patterns for drawing
· Added feature: new blend modes: Hue, Hue Shift and Saturation
· Added feature: new menu items "Import pages" and "Export all pages"
· Fixed bug: XPM export sometimes wrote unescaped backslash (\) characters into output