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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...

JPEGCrops is a Windows program, created for preparation of a batch of images for printing. It provides lossless cropping with fixed aspects using jpegtran.

The program is freeware for private use and is localized to danish, english, finnish, german, polish, portuguese, galician and japanese. Partly localized to czech, dutch, french, hungarian and italian.

Note: If you came here looking for Jpegcrop, then you're in the wrong place. Please visit the Jpegcrop page instead. Jpegcrop and JPEGCrops are two different programs.

News: I've started work on RoboCrop, which is a total rewrite of JPEGCrops. No promises on delivery dates.

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

Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows.

Features

• Customizable template object palette.
• Spellchecker (see below about dictionaries).
• Import/export WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, ICO, GIF and PCX images.
• Slide show viewer.
• Simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions.
• Advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver.
• MeeSoft Image Analyzer integration for bitmap image editing and extended file format support.
• Uses compressed file format for minimizing drawing file size.

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)

CD & DVD Label Maker is one powerful CD and DVD label and jewel case design software, help you to create beautiful and professional CD/DVD labels, CD & DVD Label Maker is one freeware of www.cddvdlabelmaker.com, completely free for any personal or commercial use, it is a very useful tool for office, family and hobby, it is very ease and flexibility.

With CD&DVD Label Maker, you can create your own CD & DVD labels and CD & DVD jewel cases with several clicks, design your style label for your CD & DVD disks of holidays, Christmas, valentines, birthdays, vacations, weddings and more.

Main Features of CD&DVD Label Maker

• Support for CD/DVD jewel cases and CD/DVD covers
• Support for Mini-CD/DVD disks
• You can insert your digital photos, pictures and more
• Supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, and more image formats
• Works with most printers
• Support Unicode
• Helpful layout tools
• Support export as images
• Friendly user interface, it is very easy to use
• Completely free for personal or commercial use

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

No matter what your 3D skill level may be, design in 3D with ease using 3DVIA Shape. Perfect for the beginner, yet powerful enough for the expert, Shape allows you to easily create your ideas in 3D and share them online all for free.

3DVIA Shape is an innovative software that makes 3D design easy for anyone. It's the perfect application for people new to 3D, as well as experienced 3D specialists.

Build Accurate Models with Ease
Design 3D models in the right proportions with 3DVIA Shape's measurement tools. Measure models with ease in meters or feet as you create them.

Remix
Use pre-existing models on 3DVIA.com as a base to start your design, or add models into your current scene to create a 3D environment.

Paint Models
Bring your models to life by adding color or textures. Choose colors or photorealistic textures, such as wood, tile or glass, from the 3DVIA Shape paint library and apply them to your model, or upload your own.

Share Models Online
Publish finished models directly to 3DVIA.com. It's a perfect way to share and receive feedback.