April 2012 ~ Jsoftware

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IcoFX is an award winning professional icon and cursor editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. Create Windows icons up to 256x256 for Windows Vista/7 and Macintosh icons up to 1024x1024 for Macintosh OSX 10.7 Lion.

Create icons and cursors
Create icons for Windows and Macintosh. Support for Windows Vista icons with PNG compression. Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. Support for static and animated cursors. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

Batch process files
You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX. Create, convert, extract or export all your icons or cursors with just a few clicks.

Adjustments and effects
With more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. IcoFX features a collection of intuitive color correction tools. Using these tools you can fine-tune hue, saturation, and luminance, adjust color levels, brightness and contrast.

Images with layers
You can quickly create layer based images using IcoFX. It allows you to rearrange, blend layers and change their opacity. This gives you more control, and you can more easily change the image in the future. Import, export and extract
You can easily convert your favorite images into icons or cursors, or icons into images. Supported image formats BMP, PNG, JPG, JPG2000, TIF and GIF. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh files.

Resource editor
IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. You can also create cursor libraries.

Full assortment of tools
IcoFX features a full blown image editor with many useful tools. You can use different brush sizes, shapes, hardness, even blending modes when painting.

Soft selections
With IcoFX’s collection of selection tools you can quickly and easily select any part of your images. You can then edit and apply special effects to portions of your image, remove unwanted objects or cut out objects from one image and paste into another. Using the QuickMask you can use the painting tools to refine your selections.

Technical Specifications
Supported File Formats
•Import and export: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, JPEG2000, BMP
•Open and save: ICO, CUR, ANI, ICNS, ICL, CUL, IFX
•Extract from: EXE, DLL, OCX, Mac Binary, AppleSingle, AppleDouble
•Capture: Ability to capture images from your desktop
Image Processing
•Layers-based image editing (IFX images)
•Over 20 tools for selection, crop, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation
•Use over 40 filters
•Adjust image size and resolution
•Scale, Rotate, Flip (vertical or horizontal)
•Fill images, layers or selections
•Batch process
◦Extract icons or cursors from files
◦Export icons or cursors to image
◦Create icons or cursors from images
•Resource editor
◦Create/modify icon libraries (ICL) and cursor libraries (CUL)
◦Modify icons/cursors inside 32 bit EXE files
•Advanced brush settings
◦Size, angle, spacing, width, height
◦Dynamic parameters: size jitter, angle jitter, width jitter, height jitter, opacity jitter, hue jitter, saturation jitter, brightness jitter, x/y position jitter
•Powerful multicolor gradients
◦Many predefined gradients
◦Gradient editor to create custom gradients
Tools
•Selection
◦Tools: Rectangular, Elliptical, Lasso, Magic Wand, Move selected pixels
◦Move/Modify selection
◦Smooth selection
◦Inverse selection
◦Edit selection in Quick Mask mode
•Crop tool
•Painting
◦Tools: Brush, Pencil, Gradient, Fill, Line, Curves
◦Specify blend mode, opacity, brush for painting tool
•Shapes
◦Tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle, Shape
◦Specify blend mode, fill of shapes
•Retouching
◦Tools: Eraser, Color Eraser, Blur, Sharpen, Brighten, Darken
◦Specify brush and strength
•Text tool
•Measuring and navigation
◦Color Picker, Hand, Zoom, Ruler
Image Adjustments
•Color Balance
•Brightness and Contrast
•Hue/Saturation
•Opacity
•Fade Out
•Transparent Color
•Shadow
•Rotate
Effects
•Use over 40 predefined effects or create your own filter
◦Invert, Grayscale, RGB Channel Mixer
◦Emboss Color, Emboss Dark, Emboss, Emboss Light
◦Average, Blur, Blur Soft, Blur More, Motion Blur
◦Sharpen, Sharpen Less, Sharpen More, Directional Sharpen
◦Find Edges (vertical), Find Edges (horizontal), Enhance Edges, Detect Edges, Edges Strong, Edges Weak, Contour
◦Glow, Waggle, Pattern, Paint Dark, Paint Bright, Shake, Shake Less, Pale, Scene, Drop Shadow
◦Add Noise
•Ability to create custom filter
Layers
•Layers-based image editing (only for images)
•Create new, duplicate, delete, rename, import or hide layers
•Change blending mode for layer
◦Normal, Multiply, Additive, Color Burn, Color Dodge, Reflect, Glow, Overlay, Difference, Negation, Lighten, Darken, Screen, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Brightness, Soft Light, Hard Light, Pin Light, Freeze, Heat, Subtractive.
•Adjust layer opacity
•Merge layers
•Flatten image
•Arrange layers
User Interface
•Interface designed to work with small images
•Dockable panels
◦Tools, Tool Options, Layers, Brushes, Swatches, Palette, Gradients, Colors, History, Explorer, Preview, Info panels
•Quick Mask mode
•Use grid and zoom up to 10000% to edit small images
•Customizable shortcuts
•Explorer panel to easily import images
•Save/Load work spaces
•Sidebar to view all the images in the icon
•Create Win/Mac icon from image
•Snapshot
•Many customizable preferences
Colors
•RGB, HSB, Gray color modes
•Transparent color
•Access to the palette of palette base images
•Add, remove and pick colors from Swatches panel
•Eyedropper allows picking colors from images
Customization
•Customize folder icons
Languages
•Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish