Do you have a great deal of icons collected from Internet? Do you admire all kinds of icons that some other applications or systems such as WinXP, Vista, Mac, and Linux and so on have used? Do you want to use favorite photos of you as icons or edit icons yourself? Search for icons suit for you is hard and unpractical. Fortunately, I found a powerful and useful icon viewer and editor on the Internet recently. This is ArtIcons which was published by Aha-soft. If you have the same requirement as me. ArtIcons is the best choice for you.

Aha-soft ArtIcons allows us to create, edit, view, extract and find icons and manage icon libraries. With it we can create and edit icons with image formats in standard and custom sizes, and in color depths of up to 16 million colors. Paint tools: color replacer, color picker, spray, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line, rectangle, curve, ellipse, 3d frame, and enhanced gradient and chess fillings. ArtIcons lets import, export and change color palettes for icon images. We can import icons from .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif files; capture screen; export icon images to .ico, .bmp, .jpg, .rc files; extract icons from Windows executables and libraries (.exe, .scr, .icl, .dll, .il, .nil, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and other), cursor and animated cursor files (.cur, .ani). It allows us to split icon into simple images and split icon libraries into icons. We can also create icon libraries for better and more efficient icon storage. ArtIcons lets us scan files and folders for icons, delete equal icons from libraries, sort icons in libraries, drag and drop files from Windows Explorer or other file shell, drag and drop icons from one library to another. We can copy and paste icons in libraries as well as copy and paste images to other applications.

The main benefits and functions of ArtIcons include: ArtIcons is an advanced icon utility for Windows. It allows professional and amateur alike to create and edit icon images and manage icon files and libraries. With ArtIcons we can: Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors. Create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel. Create and store images containing several layers. Paint images with gradient and chess fill. Modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, rotate, roll and mirror effects. Replace image colors. Create and manage icon libraries for better and more efficient storage. Paste images in various graphic formats (ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG) directly into icons. Export icon images to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files. Extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files.

Extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries. Convert Mac icons to Windows format. Modify icons inside executables and other program files. Sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries. Customize Windows Desktop and folder icons. Drag and drop files from file shells. Drag and drop icons between different libraries. Use English, Spanish, German and other interfaces. In addition, with ArtIcons Pro we can: Import GIF, Adobe Photoshop PSD, WMF, XPM, XBM and WBMP images, CUR and ANI cursor files. Export images to GIF, Adobe Photoshop PSD, RC, XPM, XBM, WBMP and CUR files. Import and export icon color palettes. Work with image lists in BMP and PNG formats. Export library items into a single image.

Split icon libraries into individual icon files. Split icons into sub-icons. The system requirements of ArtIcons include: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista, 64 MB RAM, Pentium-333 MHz, 4 MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode. ArtIcons supports following languages: English, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese (BIG5), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyr), Serbian (Lat), Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian etc.

ArtIcons 5.21 is a Icon Software product from aha-soft.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Aha-soft ArtIcons allows you to create, edit, view, extract and find icons and manage icon libraries. With it you can create and edit icons with image formats in standard and custom sizes, and in color depths of up to 16 million colors. Paint tools: color replacer, color picker, spray, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line, rectangle, curve, ellipse, 3d frame, enhanced gradient and chess fillings. ArtIcons lets import, export and change color palettes for icon images. You can import icons from .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif files; capture screen; export icon images to .ico, .bmp, .jpg, .rc files; extract icons from Windows executables and libraries (.exe, .scr, .icl, .dll, .il, .nil, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and other), cursor and animated cursor files (.cur, .ani). It allows you to split icon into simple images and split icon libraries into icons. You can also create icon libraries for better and more efficient icon storage. ArtIcons lets you scan files and folders for icons, delete equal icons from libraries, sort icons in libraries, drag and drop files from Windows Explorer or other file shell, drag and drop icons from one library to another. You can copy and paste icons in libraries as well as copy and paste images to other applications.
With ArtIcons you can:
* Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors
* Create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel
* Create and store images containing several layers
* Paint images with gradient and chess fill
* Modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, rotate, roll and mirror effects
* Replace image colors
* Create and manage icon libraries for better and more efficient storage
* Paste images in various graphic formats (ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG) directly into icons
* Export icon images to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files
* Extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files
* Extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries
* Convert Mac icons to Windows format
* Modify icons inside executables and other software files
* Sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries
* Customize Windows Desktop and folder icons
* Drag and drop files from file shells
* Drag and drop icons between different libraries
* Use English, Spanish, German and other interfaces
In addition, with ArtIcons Pro you can:
* Import GIF, Adobe Photoshop PSD, WMF, XPM, XBM and WBMP images, CUR and ANI cursor files
* Export images to GIF, Adobe Photoshop PSD, RC, XPM, XBM, WBMP and CUR files
* Import and export icon color palettes
* Work with image lists in BMP and PNG formats
* Export library items into a single image
* Split icon libraries into individual icon files
* Split icons into sub-icons The license of this design software is Free Trial Software, the price is $29.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of ArtIcons, you can buy this design software.