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Axialis IconWorkshop 5.1 Released

Posted by Axialis on 01 July 2005 - 09:41 · 11 comments & 4808 views

Axialis Software has released version 5.1 of the popular icon editor IconWorkshop. Along with many new features, the most important enhancement is the ability to create icons for the Macintosh® OS. It supports also creation of the future 256x256 icons for Tiger (to be implemented soon by Apple). You can convert Windows® icons or images to Macintosh® and the whole product has been redesigned to support the Mac-OS formats: ICNS, RSC and MacBinary. Each feature permits to create icons for both OS: Creation, Edition, Extraction, Conversion, Batch Processing...

Axialis IconWorkshop 5.1 includes the following new features:

New interface - New look, more dynamic
Full Macintosh® icon support up to Tiger 256x256
Batch conversion of icons from Windows® to Macintosh®
Batch creation of Macintosh® icons from images
Batch icon normalization
Macintosh Icontainer® libraries support
Composition of icons using drag & drop
Real time preview in Brightness, Hue, Saturation dialogs
Full support of JPEG 2000
Full support of GIF
Better image quality in image resizing and blending
New sample icons
Free object library
Some minor bug fixes and enhancements

Axialis IconWorkshop 5.1 30-Day Tryout version is available for download.

Download: Axialis IconWorkshop 5.1 | 8.86 MB (Shareware, $34.95 USD)

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New features in IconWorkshop 5.1:

New interface - New look, more dynamic.
Full Macintosh® icon support - Now you can create icons for the Macintosh®. You're able to make, read, convert icons and save them as ICNS, RSC and BIN (MacBinary). All icon formats are supported up to OSX 10.4 Tiger. The new 256x256 image format is also supported. This is not an export-to-mac feature but a full implementation of the Macintosh® icon format specification in all features of the product.
Batch conversion of icons from Windows® to Macintosh® - A very handy feature which will permit you to convert hundreds of Windows icons to Macintosh in minutes.
Batch creation of Macintosh® icons from images - Select several images and create associated Macintosh icons, with all formats embedded, in a few seconds.
Icon normalization - This feature permits you to create a set of icons with identical image formats embedded. This is very useful especially if you want to publish icons.
Macintosh Icontainer® libraries support - This version permits to extract icons from Macintosh Icontainer® icon libraries. Multi-state Mac icons are also supported.
Composition of icons using drag & drop - You'll create original icons from a library of symbols in minutes: Select the objects (disk, folder, screen...) in the librarian and drag them using the mouse in the icon editor window. Resize and move it using the mouse then repeat the operation to add other overlay symbols in your icon. You've done your own icon in seconds!
Real time preview in Brightness, Hue, Saturation dialogs - A very handy feature which permits you to adjust icons with precision.
Full support of JPEG 2000 - This is the future format for raster icons. It has a better compression ration than PNG (can be set with lossy compression like JPEG) and support alpha channels. It has been completely included in all features of the product (load/save/export/convert).
Full support of GIF - CompuServe GIF image format is widely used in Web pages because the majority of Web browsers recognize it. It has been completely included in all features of the product (load/save/export/convert) with Web-optimization options.
Better image quality in image resizing and blending - Now crystal clear results in all scale/blending operations!
New sample icons - Some icon artists gave us permissions to include their icons in the product as samples. You can enjoy these icons for your personal desktop use. Do not use them in products, they're copyrighted - see Sample Icons Terms of Use topic.
Free object library - In librarian, select the Objects folder and you'll find many images and symbols that you can use freely to make your icons. What a pleasure to compose your icons using drag & drop.
Some minor bug fixes.

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(1 reply) #1 Posted by Darken on 01 Jul 2005 - 09:51: Great program!!

#2 Posted by Swift_Monkey on 01 Jul 2005 - 11:42: WoooHooo......
Downloading now.

#3 Posted by Ned on 01 Jul 2005 - 14:33: Cool. They were due for an update. I'm definitely going to try this out.

#4 Posted by JayGorman on 01 Jul 2005 - 14:37: It took awhile for them to update this thing...

(1 reply) #5 Posted by Spitfire_x86 on 01 Jul 2005 - 15:31: Is it better than Microangelo?

#6 Posted by Galley on 01 Jul 2005 - 15:39: What do we mean by Lifetime License?

You pay for the product only the first time and get all new versions for FREE and for LIFETIME. It works with is a built-in update system which operates through Internet to automatically upgrade your application to the latest release using a "smart" patch system.

#7 Posted by deNuo on 01 Jul 2005 - 18:12: very sweet! long overdue update IMO.. tho 5.0 couldnt get much better.. i love this program

#8 Posted by ~*McoreD*~ on 01 Jul 2005 - 21:27: Great program this is.

#9 Posted by B0GiE on 09 Jul 2005 - 10:51: Is this just for the mac or can I use it on Win XP to create favicons for Firefox?

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