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ArtIcons Pro for Windows

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ArtIcons Pro expertly handles Windows XP and Vista icons, enabling creation, editing, and library management for enhanced software visuals and usability.
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  • Pros

    • Supports creation and editing of Windows XP and Vista icons
    • Handles large 256x256 resolution icons
    • Advanced PNG compression maintains quality while reducing file size
    • Supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel
    • Facilitates improved program identification and user interaction

  • Cons

    • Large icons can occupy significant disk space without compression
    • Focuses primarily on Windows icon styles
Icon of program: ArtIcons Pro

ArtIcons Pro for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
5.43
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 8
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server
  • Windows NT
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
29,406
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Developer’s Description

By Aha-soft
Create, edit, import, export, find icons and manage icon libraries.
ArtIcons Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro will strongly impact users' overall impression of your programs' visual design. Articons Pro will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.
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