With CursorWorkshop make your own hi-quality static and animated cursors for Windows and Web sites.

The new generation of cursors uses variable transparency (alpha channel). This feature permits creating beautiful cursors with smooth borders and shadows. You need a professional tool to create such cursors. Axialis CursorWorkshop has been designed with one goal in mind: "Quality".

Enjoy the strong editor which permits creating the various image formats of a cursor from an original drawing without quality loss.

The cursors can be created to customize Windows or enhance applications. You can also add your own cursors in your web sites.

1. Make your own cursors for Windows and web sites
Create professional-looking static and animated cursors to customize mouse pointers in Windows , applications and web sites.

2. Create animated cursors from GIF, FLI/FLC, filmstrip animations
Various built-in assistant permits creating animated cursors from existing animation files such as animated GIF, FLI/FLC Autodesk animations, RGB filmstrips with alpha channel and more.

3. Create cursors in seconds with Image Objects
This exclusive feature makes you a professional cursor designer. Just by using mouse drag & drops, create hi-quality cursors by assembling ready-to-use objects:

4. Work efficiently with with industry standards
Use plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and make your cursors in a few clicks.

Powerful features
1. Ability to create cursors compatible with all versions of Windows including the latest XP and Vista formats with alpha channel
2. Opens images with alpha channel to create cursors (smooth transparency, shadows and image borders)
3. Create attractive cursors using ready-to-use Image Object Packs.
4. Transfer images from Adobe Photoshop using a plug-in (through memory - no more temporary PSD file)
5. Transfer images from Adobe Illustrator using a plug-in (through memory - no more temporary PNG file)
6. Supports CUL Cursor Libraries Create/Load/Save
7. Imports/Exports Adobe Photoshop PSD images with layers
8. Imports/Exports PNG, JPEG2000 and BMP with smooth transparency alpha channel
9. Import/Export Adobe Photoshop PSD images with layers
10. Batch create PNG, JPEG2000, PSD or BMP images from cursors (several cursors at once)
11. Batch create static and animated cursor from images (several cursors at once)
12. Create cursor or library snapshot images (create an image showing all the image formats or frames embedded in a cursor or a library)..
13. Contains several image filters (blur, smooth, sharpen, details, contour, emboss...)
14. Contains several image adjustments (Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast...)
15. Contains several image tools (Resize, Rotation at any angle, flip...)
16. Drop shadow effect
17. Enhanced color swatch/palette system compatible with Adobe and Jasc color files.
18. Create a cursor with all its formats from another cursor image in one operation (easy-to-use wizard).
19. Create an animated cursor from an animated GIF (easy-to-use wizard).
20. Create an animated cursor from a FLI/FLC animation (easy-to-use wizard).
21. Create an animated cursor from several static frame images (easy-to-use wizard).
22. Create a rotating animated cursor from a static image (easy-to-use wizard).
23. Create a cursor with all its formats from an external image file in one operation (easy-to-use wizard).
24. Create a cursor from a screen capture
25. Create CUL cursor library
26. Open any executable file (EXE, DLL, OCX...). Ability to change cursors embedded in executable files.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $49.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Axialis CursorWorkshop, you can buy this icon software software.