Description of Axialis IconWorkshop Professional

Axialis IconWorkshop Professional is a comprehensive program for creating and managing icons. It offers designers and developers a wide range of tools and features to simplify the icon design process. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced professional, IconWorkshop Professional provides an easy-to-use environment for efficiently creating, customizing, and managing icons.

With IconWorkshop, you can create your own Windows icons. Design Windows icons up to 256×256 for Windows Vista/7 and Macintosh icons up to 512×512 for Leopard (MacOS 10.5). Unix/Linux uses PNG icons. IconWorkshop generates PNG images with alpha channel in just a few clicks, including from existing Windows and Mac OS icons.

The new generation of icons uses variable transparency (alpha channel). This alpha transparency allows for the creation of beautiful icons with smooth edges and shadows. IconWorkshop, which fully supports alpha transparency, is the professional tool you need to create such icons.

IconWorkshop is designed with a single goal in mind: icon quality. The powerful editor allows you to create various image formats for an icon from an original drawing without losing quality. You can also download Xpress 2023 greeting cards.

Features of Axialis IconWorkshop Professional

Ability to create icons compatible with all Windows versions, including the latest XP format with alpha channel
Supports alpha channel images for creating icons (smooth transparency, shadows, and image borders)
Customize Windows icons. Adjust the size of Windows icons. Repair or rebuild the Windows icon cache.
Transfer images from Adobe Photoshop using a plugin (via memory - no more temporary PSD files)
Reads Macintosh icons from 16×16 monochrome to OS-X 128×128 alpha channel mini format. Save them for Windows.
Supports creating/loading/saving ICL icon libraries
Import/export layered Adobe Photoshop PSD images
Imports/exports PNG and BMP with smooth alpha transparency
Import/export Adobe Photoshop PSD images with layers
Batch creates PNG, PSD, or BMP images from icons (multiple icons at once)
Batch creates Windows icons from images or Macintosh icons (multiple icons at once)
Batch converts Macintosh icons to Windows icons (multiple icons at once)
Create a snapshot image of an icon or library (create an image displaying all image formats included in an icon or library).
Includes many avatar image filters (blur, soft, sharpness, detail, outline, decorative...)
Includes many avatar image adjustments (Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast…)
Includes many avatar image tools (resize, rotate at any angle, face...)
Drop shadow effect to create icons compatible with Windows XP
Enhanced palette/color system compatible with Adobe and Jasc color files.
Create an icon in all its formats from another icon image in one easy-to-use process (wizard).
Create an icon in all its formats from an external image file in one easy-to-use process (wizard).
Create an icon from a screenshot
Create an ICL icon library
Open any executable file (EXE, DLL, OCX…). Ability to change the icons embedded in executable files.
System requirements for IconWorkshop
Axialis IconWorkshop is fully compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11. The application is compiled in 32-bit mode but works perfectly on x64 versions of Windows.