AniFX Portable

AniFX Portable is a feature-rich and modern application that comes bundled with many useful elements to offer a professional and easy way to design your own cursors and integrate them into the Windows system.

The app comes with a self-extracting executable which means it can be easily carried on a thumb drive and run on any PC without leaving any traces behind. It also doesn't take much space on the disk.

It's wrapped in a well-organized and easy-to-learn interface displaying multiple panels that can be closed if you don't need them. They are the cursor editor, color palette, file explorer, drawing pane, and the preview panel.

To load your cursors, you can either use the file tree to look for your them or use the drag-and-drop method. Plus, if you want to test your skills, you can start from scratch, and play with the options to understand their purpose.

Along the editor, the app shows all the frames one by one, in a thumbnail view. From the right side of the panel, you can access the painting tools, such as brushes, pen, fill, and color picker. It's possible to enter geometrical shapes, like rectangle, square or circle, transparent or solid color.

What's more, you have the option to apply effects to the cursor to make it shinier or darker. A few of them are color, emboss, sharpen, blur or glow. Another nice feature is the ability to correct the cursor properties, by adjusting the values of brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, opacity or shadow. Images can be duplicated and new ones imported from the PC. The output can be saved as CUR format, end exported as a picture (JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG).

Taking everything into consideration, AniFX Portable is a reliable and handy program designed to help you create unique sets of static and animated cursors for your private or public use. Plus, they can easily be tested, by adding the to the Windows Cursor list.