Full support for Windows Vista™ PNG-compressed icons
IconWorkshop™ loads, creates, edits, saves icons for Windows Vista™. This new operating system, includes a PNG-compressed icon format. It permits to create icons up to 256x256 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 hi-quality icons for Windows®, Mac OS®, Unix®
Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the first icon editor to create Windows®, Macintosh® and Unix® icons. You can easily create icons all major operating systems. IconWorkshop™ creates Windows® icons up to 256x256 for Windows Vista™ and Macintosh® icons up to 512x512 for Leopard (Mac OS® 10.5). Unix® uses PNG icons. Axialis IconWorkshop creates PNG images with alpha channel in a few clicks including from exising Windows® and MacOS® icons.
The new generation of icons uses variable transparency (a.k.a alpha channel). 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.
Convert icons between MacOS® and Windows®
MacOS® designers are prolific, especially when it comes to create icons. Use IconWorkshop™ to read MacOS® icons and convert them to Windows®. It reads all kinds of Macintosh® icons up to OSX 10.4 Tiger and OSX 10.5 Leopard.
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 a Windows® user you'll be able to use Macintosh® icons on your Windows® XP desktop.
In addition, IconWorkshop™ 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™ supports the MacBinary file format which permits to transfer icons between Macintosh® and Windows® in a snap.
Automatically create icons from images
Axialis IconWorkshop™ features a powerful editor. But sometimes it's easier to create an icon from an existing image. You can import various file formats, such as PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF, JPEG2000...
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 websites
If you're a webmaster or have a blog, you know that illustrations are important to create attractive visitor experience. IconWorkshop™ permits to export images included in icons (Windows® or Macintosh®) to external bitmap files.
You'll be able to easily export these images in various Web-optimized formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG and JPEG2000.
An object pack named "Web 2.0 Icons" permits to create illustration images in the style of Web 2.0 in a few seconds.
Create beautiful toolbars in your applications
If you're a developper, you'll easily create beautiful icons and export them as images for inclusion in toolbars. You'll be able to easily export these images in various compatible formats such as PNG and BMP with alpha channel.
An object pack named "Quick Toolbar" permits to create nice toolbars in a few seconds.