Shareware, $39.95.
ArtIcons Pro provides great opportunities for working with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons.
You will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease.
In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression.
Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery.
First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic.
The icons are symbolic images - they should look better than photorealistic.
Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays.
These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons.
Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find.
Thus, Articons Pro is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.
A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon.
Aha-Soft has again found a way to cast off these shackles: Articons Pro uses advanced PNG compression to save images without losses and supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel.
That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.
Articons Pro will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look.
All you need is just to redesign your program's most prominent icons to use the Aero-style.
From this time onwards Vista Icons crafted by Articons Pro will strongly impact users' overall impression of your programs' visual design.
Articons Pro will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.1>ArtIcons Pro v.5 is your way for creating and editing PNG-packed Windows Vista icons; icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors; icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel; images containing several layers.
It offers a professional level workshop for designing the icon structure of your Windows.
Want your system outward appearance to be more eye-appealing? ArtIcons Pro v.5 has a knack for refining your system interface! Here you will be able to paint images with gradient and chess fill and modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, color replacement, rotate, roll and mirror effects.
A variety of graphic formats are available: you can open and edit ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG images, or you can export your creation to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files.
Broad opportunities provided by the program allow you to extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files.
Moreover, you can extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries.
One more great advantage of ArtIcons Pro v.5 is its multilingual interface: you will be able to switch your language to English, Spanish, German, French and other languages.
Besides, in ArtIcons Pro v.5 you will find some pleasant features that greatly widen the comfort of the program's use: ability to sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries, ability to customize Windows Desktop and folder icons.
The program will let you drag and drop files from file shells or icons between different libraries.
Needless to say, that ArtIcons v.5 supports all 32-bit Windows, so the type of your OS is not a hindrance to your desktop's perfection! Program OS Support: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003.
Program System Requirements: 16MB RAM, Pentium-133 MHz, 2MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode.
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