Portable Axialis IconWorkshop Professional v6.70

Portable Axialis IconWorkshop is the only icon editor which permits crtion and edition of Strips for toolbars. If you're a developer, don't struggle with wide bitmaps anymore! Just open them in IconWorkshop and edit ch icon separetely.

It can rd all kinds of Strips in BMP and PNG. Transparency is supported in 32 BPP s through Alpha channels and in 24 BPP or less s through a fixed background color.

Icons in strips can be added, copied, moved and removed. You can also crte new strips from rdy-to-use objects in a few drag & drops. The object pack "Lite Toolbars" permits crting sharp and crips icons for toolbars. Portable Axialis IconWorkshop Professional v6.70

• What is an Strip?
• How to crte Icons for Toolbars using Strips

Full support for Vista™ PNG-compressed icons

IconWorkshop™ loads, crtes, edits, saves icons for Vista™. This new operating system, includes a PNG-compressed icon format. It permits to crte icons up to 256x256 with alpha channel with smaller file size.

Axialis IconWorkshop™ now fully supports this new format in all ftures: edition, automatic format crtion, batch crtion, batch conversion, format normalization... Don't wait and crte today your icons for Vista™.

• Introducing Vista™ icons
• How to crte Vista™ icons with IconWorkshop

Crte hi-quality icons for ®, Mac OS®, Unix®
Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the first icon editor to crte ®, Macintosh® and Unix® icons. You can sily crte icons all major operating systems. IconWorkshop™ crtes ® icons up to 256x256 for Vista™ and Macintosh® icons up to 512x512 for Leopard (Mac OS® 10.5). Unix® uses PNG icons. Axialis IconWorkshop crtes PNG s with alpha channel in a few clicks including from exising ® and MacOS® icons.

The new eration of icons uses variable transparency (a.k.a alpha channel). This fture permits to crte butiful icons with smooth borders and shadows. You need a professional tool to crte such icons. Axialis IconWorkshop™ has been designed with one goal in mind: "Icon Quality".

Enjoy the powerful editor which permits to crte the various formats of an icon from an original drawing without quality loss.

Crte attractive icons using Objects
The use of objects to cte icons is an exclusive fture of IconWorkshop. It permits to crte professional-looking icons in minutes using a few mouse drag & drops.

The principe is quite simple: A large quantity of basic objects are provided in a library. By associating them together (on top of ch other) you crte a personalized icon:

The s objects, which have been made by professional designers, are provided in 256x256 high-quality PNG format. This permits you to sily crte icons containing various sizes up to 256x256 for ® XP, Vista™ and MacOS®. Rd the following articles if you want to lrn more:

• What is an object?
• How to use objects to crte icons?

Convert icons between MacOS® and ®

MacOS® designers are prolific, especially when it comes to crte icons. Use IconWorkshop™ to rd MacOS® icons and convert them to ®. It rds all kinds of Macintosh® icons up to OSX 10.4 Tiger and OSX 10.5 Leopard.

If you're a software developer, you'll enjoy the ability to crte appliions for both ® and Macintosh® platforms by converting your icons. If you're a ® user you'll be able to use Macintosh® icons on your ® XP desktop.

In addition, IconWorkshop™ includes a fture which permits to convert icons between the two systems in batch-processing mode (several icons are converted in one fast operation).

IconWorkshop™ supports the MacBinary file format which permits to transfer icons between Macintosh® and ® in a snap.

Automatically crte icons from s
Axialis IconWorkshop™ ftures a powerful editor. But sometimes it's sier to crte an icon from an existing . You can import various file formats, such as PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF, JPEG2000...

An exclusive fture permits to crte an icon with its several 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 erated:

Export icons to s to illustrate your websites
If you're a webmaster or have a blog, you know that illustrations are important to crte attractive visitor experience. IconWorkshop™ permits to export s included in icons (® or Macintosh®) to external bitmap files.

You'll be able to sily export these s in various Web-optimized formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG and JPEG2000.

Object packs named "Web 2.0 Icons" and "Web Illustrations" permit crting illustration s for your websites in a few seconds.

• What is an object?
• How to crte illustration icons for websites


Use a Powerful Editor
IconWorkshop™ ftures an editor with advanced functions: sily crte s formats using one command, import/export s, resize, ajust with numerous filters, change hue, contrast, lightness, drop shadows and more...

Crte composite icons using drag & drop
An exclusive fture permits to crte composite icons using mouse drag & drop only. Just place your different objects in the icon using the mouse and crte all the formats in a snap!

Work in a fully Integrated Workspace
IconWorkshop™ ftures a fully integrated workspace. This is the way today's professional appliions are made. Additionally it has been developped in C++ using Micro-soft® MFC which is the industry standard in software engineering. It results in a fast and strong-d appliion.

Some icon soft available on the market are made of several programs resulting in appliions which are difficult to use. In IconWorkshop™, all ftures are immediately available on screen. This interface permits you to work efficiently and be more productive than ever. The multi-documents interface permits you to work with several and different types of document (icon projects, libraries, s, file explorers...).

Lrn using a Comprehensive Help
We have crted a professional and comprehensive help in IconWorkshop to permit you to lrn all the ftures included in the product. Unlike other competitor tools, the help file describes more than the product ftures. It is amply illustrated and written in sy-to-rd english. It includes following topics:

• eral information on and MacOS icons, icon crtion and Vista™ new format (4 topics).
• Getting started lessons (14 topics).
• How-to step-by-step tutorials (35 topics).
• Full fture reference (150+ topics).

See the online version of IconWorkshop™ help

Compatible with graphic industry standards

You can import PSD s with layers from ® and sily crte a multi-resolution icon from a program or company logo.

Use and Illustrator plug-ins to transfer s directly in memory and make your icon in a few clicks. No more temporary document files.

With 10 rdy-to-use templates, crte your icons like the professional icon designers. Use the powerful drawing tools of to crte the different formats of your icons and export the whole artwork in IconWorkshop. The icon is automatically crted in seconds with all its embedded formats. You can even crte your own templates.

Batch Procedures

Numerous batch procedures have been implemented in IconWorkshop™ to automatically perform operations on a large of files. For example, you can crte icons from a set of PNG files (ICO files are crted). You can also automatically convert several icons between Macintosh® and ® OS in seconds.

Librarian & Explorer with previews
Use a powerful librarian to sily manage all your media and icon files. This is a dockable window (which can be hidden) where you can store, move, copy and extract all the files you're using in your work (s, icons, libraries).

Also, A built-in file explorer permits to browse your s and find files including s and all files containing icons. This advanced explorer permits to display files in thumbnail mode. By a simple click you open any file in a viewer or editor window


One professional tool for all your needs
IconWorkshop™ is a professional tool designed to Crte, Extract, Convert, Manage and Redistribute ® Icons. You crte professional looking icons. You're seen as a pro.

Crte icons for both ® and Macintosh® OS
IconWorkshop™ is the first icon editor to crte icons for both ® up to Vista™ and Macintosh® OS up to 512x512 for Leopard.

Be productive instantly
No complied settings, no more pixel-by-pixel icon making . All has been designed to let you be productive and get professional results in minutes (using objects for instance).

Access to private s objects
Some object packs are available to registered customers only. By purchasing you get a lifetime access to these packs.

Compatible with graphic industry standards
You can convert icons between Macintosh® and ® formats in a click, crte icons from PNG s with transparency, use ® and Illustrator® transfer plug-ins, ® templates...

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