ArtIcons 5.26

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ArtIcons provides great 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 is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program 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 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 will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your program`s most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Vista Icons crafted by ArtIcons will strongly impact users` overall impression of your programs` visual design. ArtIcons will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.
Type : Shareware ($29.95) » EULA
OS Support : Windows All + Vista
Date stamp / Size : Dec, 4. 2006 / 2570 kBytes
Asked : 64MB RAM, Pentium-333 MHz, 4MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode
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Update history of ArtIcons
v5.26 (October, 25. 2009)
Added: Color selection for Drop Shadow effect.
v5.25 (June, 6. 2009)
Added: Color selection for Drop Shadow effect.
v5.24 (February, 21. 2009)
Fixed: Some bugs with ICO files
v5.23 (February, 2. 2009)
Chinese interface is updated. You can view 256x256 images inside icon libraries.
v5.22 (November, 8. 2008)
Added: Czech interface
v5.21 (September, 25. 2008)
Fixed: clipboard problems
v5.20 (February, 9. 2008)
Added: full support for 32-bit ICL files
v5.19 (October, 4. 2007)
Added: support for 16-bit ICL files under Windows Vista
v5.17 (May, 22. 2007)
Updated: Italian interface
Distribution permissions for ArtIcons
You are hereby licensed to make as many copies of the TRIAL VERSION as you wish
and distribute it to anyone provided that all files are intact. You must
distribute the install form of the TRIAL VERSION (not the files resulting of an
installation). You are not allowed to sell the TRIAL VERSION (except for shipment
and handling charges). Computer`s Magazines are authorized to distribute it
on any Cover Disk or CD-ROM without any permission. Please inform us by e-mail
each time you distribute the TRIAL VERSION.
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