ArtIcons Pro 5.21 is a Icon Software product from aha-soft.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, ArtIcons Pro provides outstanding 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 software 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 programs most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Vista Icons crafted by Articons Pro will powerfully impact users overall impression of your programs visual design. Articons Pro will improve the usability of your program by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.
Supported formats:
* ICO - Windows Icon
* CUR - Windows Cursor
* BMP - Windows Bitmap
* GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
* JPG - JPEG JFIF Image
* PNG - Portable Network Graphics
* PCX - ZSoft Publisher's Paintbrush Image
* PSD - Adobe Photoshop Image
* TGA - Truevision Targa Image
* TIF - TIFF Image
* WMF - Windows Metafile
* EMF - Enhanced Windows Metafile
* WBMP - Wireless Bitmap
* XBM - X Bitmap
* XPM - X Pixmap
* ICL, EXE, DLL, SCR, IL, NIL and other icon libraries The license of this design software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of ArtIcons Pro, you can buy this design software.