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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.
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 Top Downloads of Graphics / Misc Tools
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| Finance Icons Vista 1.0 - With beautiful 3D-perspective designs and toolbar-optimized resolutions, this set of professional... |
11.1 MB |
Shareware |
| ArtIcons Pro 5.20 - Find, extract, edit and create Windows icons in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. Import and... |
2.4 MB |
Shareware |
| CrossFont 5.2 - CrossFont converts TrueType and PostScript Type1 fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms.... |
1.5 MB |
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| Microangelo On Display 6.10.7 - Easily change icons displayed by Windows Vista, XP and 2000. One elegant dialog allows you to... |
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| IconXP 3.18 - Edit Windows icons in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. Create smooth icons for Windows... |
1.2 MB |
Shareware |
| Advanced Font Viewer 4.1 - Advanced Font Viewer is a program with the user-friendly interface that allows simultaneous... |
1.2 MB |
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| IconoMaker 3.07 - This icon editor allows to make multi-resolution icons in 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48 and custom... |
1.4 MB |
Shareware |
| IconLover 4.18 - Create Windows Vista icons, manage icon libraries, and import icons from various image formats.... |
2.1 MB |
Shareware |
| Icon to Any 3.10 - Icon to Any is an easy-to-use wizard that lets you convert Windows icons to images and cursors.... |
729.8 KB |
Shareware |
| Change Folder Icons 8.5 - Change Folder Icons is an award-winning tool for Windows that allows you to easily find thousands... |
2.4 MB |
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