Axialis IconWorkshop v6.20 Corporate Edition -
May 8,2008 (
formerly AX-Icons) - is a powerful tool designed to
Create,
Extract,
Convert,
Manage and
Redistribute WindowsIcons. It has a fully integrated workspace that permits you to work efficiently and create professional icons in minutes.
Create professional Windows icons: - Full support for Windows Vista PNG-compressed icons.
IconWorkshop loads, creates, edits, saves Vista icons. Microsoft Vista, the next version of Windows to arrive, includes a new 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 Vista.
Create quality icons for Windows and Macintosh OS:
- Axialis IconWorkshop is the first icon editor which permits to create Windows and Macintosh icons. You can easily create icons for both systems. IconWorkshop creates Windows icons up to XP and Macintosh icons up to 256x256 Tiger (Mac OS 10.4). Windows XP and Mac OSX come with a generations of icons using variable transparency. 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.
Convert icons between Macintosh and Windows - Macintosh designers are prolific, especially when it comes to icon creation. Use IconWorkshop to read Mac icons and convert them to Windows. It reads all kind of Mac icons up to Tiger (OSX 10.4).
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 simply a Windows user you'll be able to use Mac icons on your XP desktop.
This new version 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 fully supports MacBinary file format. It permits to easily transfer icons between Macintosh and Windows.
Automatically create icons from images - Axialis IconWorkshop features a powerful editor. But sometimes it's easier to create an icon from an existing image. Basically, you can import all kind of existing images: PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF...
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 applications - If you create applications, you know that images are required to create an attractive user interface. IconWorkshop permits to export any image included in an icon (Windows/Mac) to an external bitmap file. You'll be able to easily use these images in your program to create beautiful toolbars for example.
NOTE: The Corporate Edition lets you compile icon libraries and distribute them for commercial and/or profit purpose without royalties. When you place a corporate order you receive a Fully Working Version of the program by mail or e-mail. You will be authorized to install the program on several computers according to the number of copies you ordered.
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