IconLover 5.0
CREATE AND MANAGE ICONS. MADE WITH LOVE!
Whether you are a professional icon designer, software developer or you simply like to customize your desktop and folders, you will love this program.
IconLover is an all-in-one solution providing tools to create, edit, manage, store, search, import, download and convert icons and cursors of various formats including packed Windows Vista icons.
The icon creation module has all the necessary features that will satisfy an experienced designer: "Layers" design model, alpha-blending, a wide range of special effects, sophisticated transformations, etc.
No more switching between several applications! IconLover has all you need and shows it all in the same window using the popular tabbed interface. You can have an editor window in one tab and a browser window in another. It's easier than ever thanks to a superbly efficient interface. IconLover saves time. Browse icon libraries, import icons from various resources (executables, dynamic link libraries, image collections) by simply clicking tabs in the IconLover window. Icon-Lover supports drag-and-drop. Drag files right from your Windows Explorer windows.
Need to import multiple icons all at once? Want to convert multiple files into icons? Nothing could be easier. IconLover supports batch operations! You can accurately convert large collections with only a few mouse clicks. IconLover can work with a vast variety of formats. Convert to and from BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, WMF, WBMP, CUR and more. Now you can even work with Unix icons and cursor resources (XPM and XBM).
IconLover is created by and for designers. IconLover is made with love!
Aha-Soft announces the release of IconLover 5.0, an update to its icon editing tool. The new release makes designing icons for Vista-style toolbars even easier by adding the ability to automatically create ‘hot` versions of toolbar icons. The Circle Mask is also new to version 5.0, enhancing the appearance of round objects such as buttons.
IconLover allows designers and developers to draw or edit icons easily without having to learn complex image editing tools. Supporting images of any size and color resolution, IconLover is perfectly tailored for making Vista-style icons. Producing 16 and 256-color icons, IconLover remains compatible with older versions of Windows and low-profile displays. The support of 24-bit Full Color and 32-bit True Color images with alpha-channel makes icons produced by IconLover fit within Windows XP and Vista guidelines.
The newest edition of IconLover makes it possible to automatically create ‘hot` versions of icons. Numerous applications in Vista and XP react to user interaction by displaying a different version of an icon when the user moves the mouse cursor over it. When the mouse cursor moves over a toolbar icon, it becomes ‘hot`, allowing the user to easily see which item is currently active.
When designing an application, it is crucially important to make the hot-tracking effect different from other effects. There are already several states available to each icons, such as normal and disabled. While disabled icons are easy to produce automatically from the ‘normal` version by simply graying out and engraving the image being disabled, ‘hot` icons are not as easy to convey the effect. Using a wrong type of an effect would make it more difficult for the user to navigate your product.
IconLover produces ‘hot` versions of icons automatically, making it possible to hand-paint a single version of an icon, and obtain the disabled, and now the ‘hot` states automatically.
The new Circle Mask effect introduced in this version of IconLover improves the appearance of round objects such as navigation buttons by removing jaggedness from the edges. The new effect uses semi-transparent overlay to make round objects smooth and natural, and is especially visible on smaller images.
About Aha-Soft
What is new in 5.0 software version? - Added: Windows 7 support
Added: Aqua effect
Added: Ability to combining multiple images into a single icon
Added: Ability to change background color in a library mode
Added: Ability to choose background when importing images. What is expected in the future? Newly-made IconLover 5.1 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 5.2 release build. You may download iconlove.zip directly, estimated download time by ADSL or EDGE [~1.8 Mbit/s] is 0:00:22. Just write the reviews of the IconLover. This shareware download was tested by DownloadRoute.com and received highest rating. Buy IconLover safely through the one software industry's premier registration commerce providers. System requirements are 64MB RAM, Pentium-333 MHz, 8MB Hard Disk. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and IconLover found to be clean. The following languages are supported by IconLover: English.
