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Create hi-quality icons for Windows®, Mac OS®, Unix®

With IconWorkshop™ make your own icons for Windows®, Macintosh® and Unix®. It 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. IconWorkshop creates PNG images with alpha channel in a few clicks including from existing Windows® and Mac OS® icons.

The new generation of icons uses variable transparency (alpha channel). This feature permits creating 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 creating the various image formats of an icon from an original drawing without quality loss.

Create, edit icons in Image Strips for toolbars

Axialis IconWorkshop™ is the only icon editor which permits creation and edition of Image Strips for toolbars. If you're a developer, don't struggle with wide bitmaps anymore! Just open them in IconWorkshop and edit each icon separately.

It can read all kinds of Image Strips in BMP and PNG. Transparency is supported in 32 BPP images through Alpha channels and in 24 BPP or less images through a fixed background color.

Icons in image strips can be added, copied, moved and removed. You can also create new image strips from ready-to-use image objects in a few drag & drops. The object pack "Lite Toolbars" permits creating sharp and crisp icons for toolbars.

Work efficiently with a Plug-in for Visual Studio® 2005 and 2008

Axialis IconWorkshop includes a handy feature which permits to work efficiently with Visual Studio®. The principle of this plug-in, as we've made it, is to create a direct bridge between the VS IDE and IconWorkshop.

The plug-in permits to easily edit in IconWorkshop an icon included in a solution. Just open the icon in the Visual Studio® resource editor and launch the associated plug-in command. The icon is automatically opened in IconWorkshop and you can work on it as necessary. When you save it in IconWorkshop, the VS IDE automatically refreshes the icon document.

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 creating 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 attractive icons using Image Objects

The use of image objects to create icons is an exclusive feature of IconWorkshop. It permits creating professional-looking icons in minutes using a few mouse drag & drops.

Convert icons between Mac OS® and Windows®

Mac OS® 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 Mac Binary 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...

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

• Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
• Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
• Send generated files via eMail
• Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
• AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
• Merge multiple files into one PDF
• Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
• Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
• And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

LiquidIcon XP is one of the most popular Icon Editors in the world. Best of all, it's completely FREE (no Adware, Spyware, Guaranteed), portable and lightweight, and works on every version of Windows!

The next release of LiquidIcon (codename "LiquidIcon Pro") will be much more advanced and have loads of new features, including an all new interface. This new release will not be free, but we are anticipating a very low "per license" fee that will make it affordable for everybody that wishes to upgrade. We will keep LiquidIcon v1.0.x Freeware. Please stay tuned for an update.

Some of the more important features are:

• Integrated Icon Browser for easy icon extraction
• Several useful image manipulation functions
• A set of image effects that will help you in your icon creation
• Standard set of image editing tools

How do to covert a JPEG file to PDF? This freeware "JPEG to PDF" can help you, it is one small converter that can instantly convert JPEG images into PDF files, it is one standalone program and does not require Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.

JPEG to PDF supports command line usage, and you can make one ".bat" file to batch convert many jpeg files to pdf documents once time! it is very easy to use, converting is simple and quickly.

You can change the position of the JPEG image in the PDF documents; this free software can stretch the images size as you want.

Key JPEG to PDF Features

• Support JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP image formats
• No need install one visual PDF printer, convert directly.
• No need Adobe Acrobat software
• Support Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP/VISTA platforms
• Support command line usage
• Support preview the PDF file after convert
• Support batch convert jpeg files to pdf
• Freeware, no adware or no spyware, free use for personal and non-commercial.

Nowadays social networks (Facebook, Odnoklassniki etc.), blogs and online diaries (MySpace, LiveJournal etc.) become very popular. Practically every user puts his / her digital photos into a global network, or send them via e-mail. To pass good quality images over the Internet requires a lot of Internet traffic. To reduce the flow of traffic and speed up the transfer of photos need to reduce their size. But how reduce at the time ten or more pictures? Photophant is a solution of this problem. This software product applies for batch resizing, converting and renaming of digital photos and images.

Why Photophant?
It's free, convenient and very easy to use. The user of any experience, whether a beginner or a professional, easily absorb it. Incredibly fast image resizing and preview allow to significantly reduce working time. Built-in size templates make it easier to choose from the output size of photos. Photophant supports all popular image formats PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, and GIF. The distribution size is just 1.5 MB, and it is possible to run the program without installing (portable version). Settings are stored after the exit and you will not have to be repeated those or other options. Through the available filters a user can control the quality of the photographs.

Key Features

• 100% Free for home use. No spyware, adware, banners etc.
• Resize, rename and convert images in batch mode
• The most fastest image resizing algorithm
• Supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP formats
• Supports Watermarks
• Variable options and settings for advanced users
• Built-in size templates: iPod, iPhone, Facebook, DVD etc.
• Configurable compression / resolution ratio
• Load / save settings and image lists
• Clean, easy to use interface
• Small installation file ~ 2MB
• Portable version is also available
• Supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 bit)

Create, edit and convert Windows animated cursors (.ani files). Use them to customize the appearance of Windows (desktop themes) or insert them as animations in Web pages, e-mails, documents, manuals or even applications.

AniTuner is a free program that lets you create, edit and convert animated cursors for Windows (.ani files).

Animated cursors are animated mouse pointers that can replace the default arrow cursor in Microsoft Windows. Such animated cursor files are given the .ani extension and are recognized by Windows and any application that handles cursors. You can get more information about the animated cursor format here.

AniTuner makes the creation and edition of these animated cursors easy: everyone can create his/her own animated cursors in a snap. You can use animated cursors not only to customize the appearance of Windows (desktop themes) but also to produce animations for your Web pages, e-mails, documents, manuals or even applications...

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:

• Many supported file formats
• Multi language support
• Thumbnail/preview option
• Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
• Toolbar skins option
• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• File search
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Cut/crop
• IPTC editing
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Capturing
• Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
• Lossless JPG rotation
• Unicode support
• Many hotkeys
• Many command line options
• Many PlugIns
• Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
• No registry changes without user action/permission!
• and much much more

Posterizia enables you to create poster or banner size prints from your digital images. The program slices the images into multiple parts and makes them fit into a number of regular size pages (A4, A3, letter, etc.), which can then be assembled after printing. It automatically includes margins to overlap and glue the pages. In addition, you can add up to 4 lines of text, as well as a frame to enhance the looks. The program is easy to use, and offers easy configuration and previews of the results. You can create regular size posters, wall posters or anything in between, although you should use a high resolution image for larger printouts in order to produce quality results. The program can also save the output as JPG files, allowing you to use 3rd party printing services instead of your own printer.

Features:

• Don´t need any installation. No more weird files on your system
• You can use any windows printer to print the posters
• You can use any paper supported by your printer. Any size. (A4, A3, Folio, etc)
• Poster size can be any you want. The program is prepared to cover your house wall
• You can choose any font installed in your system for the text
• You can use any photograph as background. Supported format are BMP, JPEG and GIF.
• Even, you can graphically choose an area of this photo
• Choose predefined type and color for the frame
• Add also text (up to 4 lines) to make your poster more spectacular
• It automatically fits the size of the text
• Very, very easy to use