IconMagic 1.0

• License:

  Free to try; $39.95 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 12 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  28,887

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  June 10, 2004

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version IconMagic 1.0 IconMagic 1.01 IconMagic 1.00

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Publisher's description of IconMagic

From FinalMagic:

IconMagic can help you create icons of different styles and individualize your desktop and folders. It offers powerful gradient tools, various filters, and many predesigned masks to help you design a specialized icon in minutes. Furthermore, the most appropriate palette will be generated automatically, so you needn't be concerned about the arrangement and assignment of colors.

Editor's review of IconMagic

• 5.0 stars

• "IconMagic"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: IconMagic 1.0

Thanks to a good-looking interface and a strong toolset, this program muscles its way to nearly the top of the icon-design heap. We really like IconMagic's attractive, colorful design, which features well-organized buttons for some of the app's more useful editing tools. The extensive feature set also impresses, with a wide range of color palettes, layers, drawing instruments, gradients, and shadows. You won't find sample icons to guide you, but the detailed tutorial is a big help. A preview function lets you see what your final image will look like, and you can even replace your PC's icons with ones of your own design from directly within the program. Only users who need an absolutely professional icon-design tool should skip this one.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 12 votes
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• 5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: IconMagic 1.0

  "Very easy to use, very quick to learn"

  by DarrenD on May 27, 2005

  Pros: I've tried many different icon products out there and I've found IconMagic to be by far the easiest to use. If you're like me - not a serious graphic designer - and just tweak existing icons instead of creating new ones from scratch pixel by pixel, you'll find this product extremely useful. There is virtually no learning curve - a sign of a well designed application - and all the obvious functionality is just where you'd expect it to be.

  Cons: Only downside is the inability to save individual images from the icon as bitmaps for use elsewhere.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: IconMagic 1.0

  "It's great! Download it!"

  by Piggy Wiggles on February 1, 2006

  Pros: Easily customizable gradients are in my opinion the best feature in IconMagic, but thats not all... my second favorite tool would be the triangle tool (ya don't see that usually). And much more!

  Cons: There was only one thing in this program that annoyed me, and that was that there was no way to save the icons so it's still in layers when you open them back up later (this makes it harder to create folders).

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• 1 stars

  Version: IconMagic 1.0

  "Won't Install"

  by wlsmith on May 7, 2008

  Pros: I like what I read about hti software. Sounds promising.

  Cons: When I attempt to install, I am told some installation files are corrupt.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: IconMagic 1.0

  "Soooooo Easy to Use"

  on June 21, 2004

  Summary: it's very easy to create or modify icons quickly use this program. Detailed help files and powerful drawing tools set make creating professional xp icons so simple. really in few minutes.

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• 5 stars

  Version: IconMagic 1.0

  "Outstanding!"

  on June 21, 2004

  Summary: Great mask and easy control. Top in its class.

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