My Favorite Icon Editor

March 5, 2007 by Munky


Create icons for Windows Vista™
Microsoft Windows Vista™ supports 256×256 PNG compressed icons. Start creating icons for Windows® Vista® icons today with IconWorkshop.

One tool for all your needs
Axialis IconWorkshop is a professional tool for Windows® designed to create, edit, extract, convert and manage your icons in a fully integrated workspace.

The future of icon creation
No more pixel-by-pixel icon making. Make professional Learn how to create icons from Object Packs…icons in minutes using ready-to-use image objects.

Create icons for Windows® and Macintosh®
IconWorkshop is the only editor to create icons for Windows® and Macintosh® (up to 256×256 for Tiger).
It features instant conversions and supports MacBinary file format for easy transfers.

Full support for Windows Vista™ PNG-compressed icons
IconWorkshop loads, creates, edits, saves icons for Microsoft Vista™. This new operating system, includes a PNG-compressed icon format. It permits to create icons up to 256×256 with alpha channel with smaller file size.

Axialis IconWorkshop now fully supports this new format in all features: edition, automatic format creation, batch creation, batch conversion, format normalization… Don’t wait and create today your icons for Windows Vista™.

Create quality icons for Windows® and Macintosh® OS
Axialis IconWorkshop is the first icon editor which permits to create Windows® and Macintosh® icons. You can easily create icons for both systems. IconWorkshop creates Windows® icons up to XP and Macintosh® icons up to 256×256 Tiger® (Mac OS 10.4).

Windows® XP and Mac OSX come with a generations of icons using variable transparency. This feature permits to create beautiful icons with smooth borders and shadows. You need a professional tool to create such icons. Axialis IconWorkshop has been designed with one goal in mind: “Icon Quality”.

Enjoy the powerful editor which permits to create the various image formats of an icon from an original drawing without quality loss.

Create attractive icons using Image Objects ®
The first Axialis Object Pack for icons has been included in IconWorkshop. It is a library of 150 image objects which will permit you to create an unlimited number of icons with various glossy effects and shapes simply using drag & drop.

The images come in 256×256 high-quality PNG format. It permits to easily create icons containing various sizes up to 256×256 for Windows XP®, Vista® and MacOS®.

Convert icons between Macintosh® and Windows®
Macintosh® designers are prolific, especially when it comes to icon creation. Use IconWorkshop to read Mac icons and convert them to Windows®. It reads all kind of Mac icons up to Tiger® (OSX 10.4).

If you’re a software developer, you’ll enjoy the ability to create applications for both Windows and Macintosh platforms by converting your icons. If you’re simply a Windows user you’ll be able to use Mac icons on your XP desktop.

This new version includes a feature which permits to convert icons between the two systems in batch-processing mode (several icons are converted in one fast operation).

IconWorkshop fully supports MacBinary file format. It permits to easily transfer icons between Macintosh® and Windows®.

Automatically create icons from images
Axialis IconWorkshop features a powerful editor. But sometimes it’s easier to create an icon from an existing image. Basically, you can import all kind of existing images: PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF…

An exclusive feature permits to create an icon, with its several image formats, in just one operation! All is done automatically: Alpha channel is preserved, palettes are calculated for 256 color formats and even 16 color formats with transparency are generated.

Export icons to images to illustrate your applications
If you create applications, you know that images are required to create an attractive user interface. IconWorkshop permits to export any image included in an icon (Windows/Mac) to an external bitmap file. You’ll be able to easily use these images in your program to create beautiful toolbars for example.

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