The identity and characteristic of a software application or a website can be signified or represented by an icon through its literal or figurative meaning.  IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. With IcoFX  you can create, retouch and edit icons.  It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files.

IcoFX has released its latest version IcoFX 1.6.3 for free downloading. Users can download the free application via the direct link here and enjoy the fun to create their personalized and significant favicons for their blogs, websites, software, etc. 

 Here are some key features of “IcoFX”:

· Support for Vista icons with PNG compression
· Support for alpha channel (transparency)
· Batch processing for handling multipple files
· New: Built in resource editor for creating icon libraries or changing icons inside exe files
· New: Zoom icons up to 10000% for increased precision
· New: Import image dialog, for creating icons from images
· New: Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa
· New: Open, save, edit and convert Macintosh OS X icons
· New: Extract Macintosh icons from resource files
· New: Snapshot window for creating overviews of the icons
· More than 40 built in effects, including Drop Shadow
· Use custom filters to create your own customized effects
· Multiple language support
· Resolutions up to 256×256
· Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha (optional dithering for 2, 16, 256 colors)
· Extract icons (including Vista icons) from 32 bit exe and dll
· Import / export images (transparency also) from bmp, jpg, gif, png, jp2
· Many useful drawing tools like brush, line, rectangle and more
· Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools for retouching
· Create icon from an image with a single click
· Adjust the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, transparency and color balance of icons
· Change the dimension of images
· Images can be faded using the fadeout dialog
· Increase / decrease the opacity of an image
· Easy shadow handling
· RGB and HSB color modes
· History of recently opened files
· Window menu for easy window switching
· Possibility to store favorite colors
· Capture image from the desktop
· Grid for precision work
· Side bar for easy image switching
· File Explorer window for easy file browsing and importing
· Full drag and drop support
· Sizable preview window
· Multiple undo
· Blur the edge of the brush
· Rotate the image at any angle
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 2:18 pm | by Kur-nia-one |