Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/17/2007 -- IconLover 4.18 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, it's a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.

First, IconLover 4.18 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.

Second, IconLover 4.18 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.

Finally, IconLover 4.18 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.

The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.

This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265x256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265x256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.

IconLover 4.18 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars

Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.

If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.

System Requirements

• Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
• RAM: 64 MB
• Hard Disk: 8 MB

Company Website: http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm
Product Page: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm
Download: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/iconlove.exe
Screenshots: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/scr.gif http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/scrf.png
Buy Link: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/reg.htm

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Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/20/2007 -- Aha-Soft has announced the immediate availability of new Icon Collections. These icon sets offer hundreds of sleek, rich-colored icons that can help developers create an engaging and intuitive interface for their applications and sites. Icon sets include such categories as Business, Toolbar, Database, Money, E-mail, Graphic, Transport, and Security with many more on the way. Icons come in a variety of formats and sizes and distributed on a royalty-free basis from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

People like interfaces where features are easily exposed so that a quick look can determine what this or that icon actually does. The eye-candy factor must also be up. Icon Collections from Aha-Soft provide this competitive edge. Not only are they nice to look at, they are also intuitive, making a user recognize their meaning at a quick glance. Artists at Aha-Soft have put much care into each icon, as a result they all look carefully done. You will enjoy their bright palette, smooth and well-rounded edges. Icons are delivered in a variety of formats, such as ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP and such sizes as 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48. They are available in 256 colors and in True Color with semi-transparency. What's more, icon formats for Windows Vista are also available with 256x256 size. Icons are so many that anyone can find something for themselves. However Aha-Soft can custom-design icons if you have some special requirements or can't find what you need in available collections.

Pricing and availability
Icon Collections run under Microsoft Windows 98/NT/Me/XP/Vista and start at $29.95 (USD) for a set. Additional information on Icon Collections is available from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

About Aha-Soft
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft is an Information Technology company specializing in professional icon and cursor design and management software. Aha-Soft is the author of such popular tools as AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, IconLover, IconUtils and IconXP. If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please visit the company's web site at http://www.aha-soft.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

People like beautiful interfaces where features are "up front" and "in their face". New stock icon collections from Aha-Soft make them that way.

Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/16/2007 -- Aha-Soft has announced the immediate availability of new Icon Collections. These icon sets offer hundreds of sleek, rich-colored icons that can help developers create an engaging and intuitive interface for their applications and sites. Icon sets include such categories as Business, Toolbar, Database, Money, E-mail, Graphic, Transport, and Security with many more on the way. Icons come in a variety of formats and sizes and distributed on a royalty-free basis from http://www.777icons.com/index.htm.

People like interfaces where features are easily exposed so that a quick look can determine what this or that icon actually does. The eye-candy factor must also be up. Icon Collections from Aha-Soft provide this competitive edge. Not only are they nice to look at, they are also intuitive, making a user recognize their meaning at a quick glance. Artists at Aha-Soft have put much care into each icon, as a result they all look carefully done. You will enjoy their bright palette, smooth and well-rounded edges. Icons are delivered in a variety of formats, such as ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP and such sizes as 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48. They are available in 256 colors and in True Color with semi-transparency. What's more, icon formats for Windows Vista are also available with 256x256 size. Icons are so many that anyone can find something for themselves. However Aha-Soft can custom-design icons if you have some special requirements or can't find what you need in available collections.

Pricing and availability
Icon Collections run under Microsoft Windows 98/NT/Me/XP/Vista and start at $29.95 (USD) for a set. Additional information on Icon Collections is available from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

About Aha-Soft
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft is an Information Technology company specializing in professional icon and cursor design and management software. Aha-Soft is the author of such popular tools as AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, IconLover, IconUtils and IconXP. If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please visit the company's web site at www.aha-soft.com.

Product page
http://www.777icons.com/index.htm

Download
http://www.777icons.com/download.htm

Buy link
http://www.777icons.com/reg.htm

Contact
Aha-Soft
Pacific Business Centre, Att: Aha-Soft #101 - 1001 W.
Broadway Suite 381, Vancouver, BC V6H 4E4, Canada.
Support page: http://www.777icons.com/support.htm
Web: http://www.aha-soft.com

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Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/15/2007 -- Aha-Soft, a leading developer of world-class graphic software, has announced the release of its latest icon editing tool IconXP 3.16. The first version of this software released in autumn of 2001, was the first ever icon editor to support the 32-bit icon format introduced in Windows XP. With the release of version 3.16 IconXP continues to stay on the cutting edge of the icon editing technology and makes a giant leap forward both in terms of usability and functionality.

IconXP 3.16 makes icon editing a breeze enabling both professional and novice artists to use a variety of drawing, painting and editing tools organized within a neat workspace specifically optimized for creating and editing small graphics. The foremost feature that makes IconXP stand out among other graphic tools is the ability to create native Windows XP icons that contain a smooth edge over any background. It offers functions to make better use of opacity and transparency, including the ability to capture transparency when moving or copying images and the RGB lock mode, which allows modifying a pixel's transparency while keeping their color. Similarly, IconXP's transparency lock mode lets you alter a pixel's color while freezing its transparency.

The IconXP editor may be used to create icons from scratch, or simply import multiple standard image files (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.) and tweak or convert them to the appropriate format. It also lets you choose the size of your new icon, the color depth, and the effects that you want your icon to have - all with a click of a button. You can easily create and modify XP and Vista icons with drop shadow, smooth, rotate, grayscale, colorize, and roll and mirror effects to create that fun, dynamic, and modern look. At the same time, you can paint images with gradient and chess fills for dimension and a rich outlook. You can save the icon images to disk, or export them to a variety of image formats (.ico, .bmp, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .wbmp, .xpm, .xbm, .cur and .rc and Adobe Photoshop format).

Program Awards
IconXP has received a number of awards and Editor's Picks from popular online and print publications including TuCows, Paul's Software Picks, RocketDownload and File Transit.

System Requirements
Apart from the True Color video mode IconXP has no special software of hardware requirements and will run on any Windows 98 and higher machine.

Price
IconXP costs $29.95(US). The trial version is fully functional but expires after 30 days trial.

About the Publisher
Based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aha-Soft manufactures cutting-edge image processing software for professional and amateur graphic artists. Aha-Soft's line of icon and cursor tools features innovative software designs to set new standards. This privately owned company was founded in 2000 and is off to a phenomenal start, receiving high praise in its first years of operation from top Internet download sites including ZDNet, TuCows and Simply the Best.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

People like beautiful interfaces where features are "up front" and "in their face". New stock icon collections from Aha-Soft make them that way.

Krasnoyarsk-10, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/30/2007 -- Aha-Soft has announced the immediate availability of new Icon Collections. These icon sets offer hundreds of sleek, rich-colored icons that can help developers create an engaging and intuitive interface for their applications and sites. Icon sets include such categories as Business, Toolbar, Database, Money, E-mail, Graphic, Transport, and Security with many more on the way. Icons come in a variety of formats and sizes and distributed on a royalty-free basis from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

People like interfaces where features are easily exposed so that a quick look can determine what this or that icon actually does. The eye-candy factor must also be up. Icon Collections from Aha-Soft provide this competitive edge. Not only are they nice to look at, they are also intuitive, making a user recognize their meaning at a quick glance. Artists at Aha-Soft have put much care into each icon, as a result they all look carefully done. You will enjoy their bright palette, smooth and well-rounded edges. Icons are delivered in a variety of formats, such as ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP and such sizes as 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48. They are available in 256 colors and in True Color with semi-transparency. What's more, icon formats for Windows Vista are also available with 256x256 size. Icons are so many that anyone can find something for themselves. However Aha-Soft can custom-design icons if you have some special requirements or can't find what you need in available collections.

Pricing and availability
Icon Collections run under Microsoft Windows 98/NT/Me/XP/Vista and start at $29.95 (USD) for a set. Additional information on Icon Collections is available from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

About Aha-Soft
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft is an Information Technology company specializing in professional icon and cursor design and management software. Aha-Soft is the author of such popular tools as AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, IconLover, IconUtils and IconXP. If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please visit the company's web site at www.aha-soft.com.

Product page
http://www.777icons.com/index.htm

Download
http://www.777icons.com/download.htm

Buy link
http://www.777icons.com/reg.htm

Contact
Aha-Soft
Pacific Business Centre, Att: Aha-Soft #101 - 1001 W.
Broadway Suite 381, Vancouver, BC V6H 4E4, Canada.
Support page: http://www.777icons.com/support.htm
Web: http://www.aha-soft.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

People like beautiful interfaces where features are "up front" and "in their face". New stock icon collections from Aha-Soft make them that way.

Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/26/2007 -- Aha-Soft has announced the immediate availability of new Icon Collections. These icon sets offer hundreds of sleek, rich-colored icons that can help developers create an engaging and intuitive interface for their applications and sites. Icon sets include such categories as Business, Toolbar, Database, Money, E-mail, Graphic, Transport, and Security with many more on the way. Icons come in a variety of formats and sizes and distributed on a royalty-free basis from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

People like interfaces where features are easily exposed so that a quick look can determine what this or that icon actually does. The eye-candy factor must also be up. Icon Collections from Aha-Soft provide this competitive edge. Not only are they nice to look at, they are also intuitive, making a user recognize their meaning at a quick glance. Artists at Aha-Soft have put much care into each icon, as a result they all look carefully done. You will enjoy their bright palette, smooth and well-rounded edges. Icons are delivered in a variety of formats, such as ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP and such sizes as 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48. They are available in 256 colors and in True Color with semi-transparency. What's more, icon formats for Windows Vista are also available with 256x256 size. Icons are so many that anyone can find something for themselves. However Aha-Soft can custom-design icons if you have some special requirements or can't find what you need in available collections.

Pricing and availability
Icon Collections run under Microsoft Windows 98/NT/Me/XP/Vista and start at $29.95 (USD) for a set. Additional information on Icon Collections is available from www.777icons.com/index.htm.

About Aha-Soft
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft is an Information Technology company specializing in professional icon and cursor design and management software. Aha-Soft is the author of such popular tools as AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, IconLover, IconUtils and IconXP. If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please visit the company's web site at www.aha-soft.com.

Product page
http://www.777icons.com/index.htm

Download
http://www.777icons.com/download.htm

Buy link
http://www.777icons.com/reg.htm

Contact
Aha-Soft
Pacific Business Centre, Att: Aha-Soft #101 - 1001 W.
Broadway Suite 381, Vancouver, BC V6H 4E4, Canada.
Support page: http://www.777icons.com/support.htm
Web: http://www.aha-soft.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Previous versions of icon editors don't support Vista Icons? Experts from Aha-Soft have found new guidelines for solving this problem

Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/23/2007 -- Aha-Soft today announces the unveiling of ArtIcons Pro 5.16, the newest version of its award winning icon design software for the Windows OS. This version, aside from rendering its assistance in creating, editing icon images and managing icon files and libraries, provides great opportunities for working with Vista Icons. If you couldn't work with Vista Icons previously, now with the new version of ArtIcons Pro it is going to be no trouble at all. From now onwards you will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease.

Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images – they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, ArtIcons Pro is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.

ArtIcons Pro 5.16 Benefits at a Glance:

• Vista Aero-style Icons support;
• PNG format to compress high-resolution images without losses;
• Saving Vista Icons without compression provides compatibility with XP;
• Find and extract, edit, import and export icons and manage icon libraries;
• Lot's of delicate power instruments for creating and editing icons;
• Import and export ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc. images;
• Multilanguage support.

Pricing and Availability
ArtIcons Pro 5.16 runs under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista and costs $39.95 (USD) for a single user license. Registered customers are entitled to lifetime technical support and discounts on further updates. Additional information on ArtIcons Pro, as well as its 30-day evaluation version with nag screens is available from http://www.aha-soft.com.

About Aha-Soft
This privately owned company was founded in 2000 and is off to a phenomenal start, receiving high praise in its first years of operation from top Internet download sites including ZDNet, TuCows and Simply the Best. Based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aha-Soft manufactures advanced image processing software for professional and amateur graphic artists. Aha-Soft's line of icon and cursor tools features innovative software designs to set new standards. For more information, please visit http://www.aha-soft.com.

Product page link: http://www.aha-soft.com/articons/index.htm
Download link: http://aha-soft.com/ articons/aipro.exe
Company website: http://www.aha-soft.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Finds, Edits And Manages Icons, Supports New Microsoft Vista Icons.

Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/16/2007 -- IconLover 4.16 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, it's a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.

First, IconLover 4.16 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.

Second, IconLover 4.16 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.

Finally, IconLover 4.16 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.

The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.

This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265x256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265x256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.

IconLover 4.16 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars

Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.

If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.

System Requirements

• Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
• RAM: 64 MB
• Hard Disk: 8 MB

Company Website
http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm

Product Page
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm

Download
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/iconlove.exe

Screenshots
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/scr.gif
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/scrf.png

Buy Link
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/reg.htm

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/16/2007 -- Aha-Soft invites designers to take advantage of an installment plan that covers the most popular icon editor – IconUtils. Get down to icon design now while paying a small monthly fee!

Aha-Soft offers users the option of paying on an installment plan. The plan covers their most popular product – IconUtils, which can be bought in equal monthly installments of $5 over the course of 18 months. The installment plan is interest fee. The best about this plan is that users can start using IconUtils for their design needs right after the registration, without having to pay much at time of the purchase. Those who are interested in this offer are invited to Aha-soft.com to register their copy of a popular editor and start working today.

IconUtils is a set of several program distributed in a single package. It includes Icon Lover, Any to Icon, Icon to Any and AhaView. These tools offer a carefully chosen set of features that meet the requirements of any graphics designer who is involved into creation of icons, cursors and small graphics. The IconUtils' tools offer the following key benefits:

- Create, or edit polished and graceful icons, cursors (static or animated) with color depths up to 32-bit True Color in IconLover.
- Quickly convert images to clean Windows icons, using Any to Icon. Batch mode is available. The source images may be in one of the following formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WBMP, XPM, XBM, PSD, or WMF.
- Quickly convert any Windows icon or cursor to an image in Icon to Any. If you find a nice-looking icon, you can create an image out of it and use in your design process. Conversion is simple and effortless thanks to the wizard-style interface.
- View any image or convert it into JPEG, PNG, or BMP format in AhaView. The program supports all currently popular formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, CUR, ANI, WBMP, XPM, XBM, PSD.

Pricing and Availability
IconUtils 4.16 runs under all 32-bit Windows OS, including 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003. Additional information on the product, as well as its 30-day evaluation copy (with a nag screen, and ability to convert only 5 files at a time) is available from www.aha-soft.com/.

Product page link: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/index.htm
Order page link: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/reg.htm
Direct download link: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/iconutils.exe
Company website: http://www.aha-soft.com/

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Krasnoyarsk-10, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/05/2007 -- IconLover 4.15 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, it's a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.

First, IconLover 4.15 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.

Second, IconLover 4.15 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.

Finally, IconLover 4.15 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.

The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.

This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265x256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265x256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.

IconLover 4.15 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars

Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.

If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.

System Requirements

• Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
• RAM: 64 MB
• Hard Disk: 8 MB

Company Website
http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm

Product Page
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm

Download
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/iconlove.exe

Screenshots
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/scr.gif
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/scrf.png


Buy Link
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/reg.htm

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Krasnoyarsk-10, Russia-- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/05/2007 -- Aha-Soft, a leading developer of world-class graphic software, has announced the release of its latest icon editing tool IconXP 3.15. The first version of this software released in autumn of 2001, was the first ever icon editor to support the 32-bit icon format introduced in Windows XP. With the release of version 3.15 IconXP continues to stay on the cutting edge of the icon editing technology and makes a giant leap forward both in terms of usability and functionality.

IconXP 3.15 makes icon editing a breeze enabling both professional and novice artists to use a variety of drawing, painting and editing tools organized within a neat workspace specifically optimized for creating and editing small graphics. The foremost feature that makes IconXP stand out among other graphic tools is the ability to create native Windows XP icons that contain a smooth edge over any background. It offers functions to make better use of opacity and transparency, including the ability to capture transparency when moving or copying images and the RGB lock mode, which allows modifying a pixel's transparency while keeping their color. Similarly, IconXP's transparency lock mode lets you alter a pixel's color while freezing its transparency.

The IconXP editor may be used to create icons from scratch, or simply import multiple standard image files (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.) and tweak or convert them to the appropriate format. It also lets you choose the size of your new icon, the color depth, and the effects that you want your icon to have - all with a click of a button. You can easily create and modify XP and Vista icons with drop shadow, smooth, rotate, grayscale, colorize, and roll and mirror effects to create that fun, dynamic, and modern look. At the same time, you can paint images with gradient and chess fills for dimension and a rich outlook. You can save the icon images to disk, or export them to a variety of image formats (.ico, .bmp, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .wbmp, .xpm, .xbm, .cur and .rc and Adobe Photoshop format).

Program Awards
IconXP has received a number of awards and Editor's Picks from popular online and print publications including TuCows, Paul's Software Picks, RocketDownload and File Transit.

System Requirements
Apart from the True Color video mode IconXP has no special software of hardware requirements and will run on any Windows 98 and higher machine.

Price
IconXP costs $29.95(US). The trial version is fully functional but expires after 30 days trial.

About the Publisher
Based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aha-Soft manufactures cutting-edge image processing software for professional and amateur graphic artists. Aha-Soft's line of icon and cursor tools features innovative software designs to set new standards. This privately owned company was founded in 2000 and is off to a phenomenal start, receiving high praise in its first years of operation from top Internet download sites including ZDNet, TuCows and Simply the Best.

For more information about Aha-Soft please visit the company's web site at
http://www.aha-soft.com/ .

Contact
Aha-soft,
P.O. BOX 17077, Krasnoyarsk-10, 660010, Russia
Web: http://www.aha-soft.com

Full Version Evaluation
Should you need a full version for review, please email us at supportaha-soft.com.

Download Evaluation Copy of IconXP 3.15
Download from: http://www.iconutils.com/iconxp/iconxp.exe (exe, 1200 KB)
and http://www.iconutils.com/iconxp/iconxp.zip (zip, 1200 KB)

More Information
More product information can be found at
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconxp/

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Previous versions of icon editors don’t support Vista Icons? Experts from Aha-Soft have found new guidelines for solving this problem

Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/30/2007 -- Aha-Soft today announces the unveiling of ArtIcons 5.15, the newest version of its award winning icon design software for the Windows OS. This version, aside from rendering its assistance in creating, editing icon images and managing icon files and libraries, provides great opportunities for working with Vista Icons. If you couldn't work with Vista Icons previously, now with the new version of ArtIcons it is going to be no trouble at all. From now onwards you will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression.

Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images – they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, ArtIcons is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.

A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. Aha-Soft has again found a way to cast off these shackles: ArtIcons 5.14 uses advanced PNG compression to save images without losses and supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel. That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.

Previous versions of the program have managed to hand on all their eminent features to the new version: ArtIcons 5.12 is equipped with all essential drawing tools including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software also offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects. The program features easy converting from one image format into another.

ArtIcons 5.14 will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your program's most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Visa Icons crafted by ArtIcons 5.12 will strongly impact users' overall impression of your programs' visual design. ArtIcons will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.

ArtIcons 5.15 Benefits at a Glance:

• Vista Aero-style Icons support;
• PNG format to compress high-resolution images without losses;
• Saving Vista Icons without compression provides compatibility with XP;
• Find and extract, edit, import and export icons and manage icon libraries;
• Lot's of delicate power instruments for creating and editing icons;
• Import and export ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc. images;
• Multilanguage support.

Pricing and Availability
ArtIcons 5.15 runs under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista and costs $29.95 (USD) for a single user license. Registered customers are entitled to lifetime technical support and discounts on further updates. Additional information on ArtIcons, as well as its 30-day evaluation version with nag screens is available from http://www.aha-soft.com.

About Aha-Soft
This privately owned company was founded in 2000 and is off to a phenomenal start, receiving high praise in its first years of operation from top Internet download sites including ZDNet, TuCows and Simply the Best. Based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aha-Soft manufactures advanced image processing software for professional and amateur graphic artists. Aha-Soft's line of icon and cursor tools features innovative software designs to set new standards. For more information, please visit http://www.aha-soft.com.

AN EVALUATION COPY IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Product page link: http://www.aha-soft.com/articons/index.htm
Download link: http://aha-soft.com/articons/aicon.exe
Company website: http://www.aha-soft.com

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Previous versions of icon editors don't support Vista Icons? Experts from Aha-Soft have found new guidelines for solving this problem

Krasnoyarsk Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/09/2007 -- Aha-Soft today announces the unveiling of ArtIcons Pro 5.14, the newest version of its award winning icon design software for the Windows OS. This version, aside from rendering its assistance in creating, editing icon images and managing icon files and libraries, provides great opportunities for working with Vista Icons. If you couldn't work with Vista Icons previously, now with the new version of ArtIcons Pro it is going to be no trouble at all. From now onwards you will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression.

Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images – they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, ArtIcons Pro is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users.

A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. Aha-Soft has again found a way to cast off these shackles: ArtIcons Pro 5.12 uses advanced PNG compression to save images without losses and supports semitransparent images with 8bit alpha channel. That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.

Previous versions of the program have managed to hand on all their eminent features to the new version: ArtIcons Pro 5.14 is equipped with all essential drawing tools including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software also offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects. The program features easy converting from one image format into another.

ArtIcons Pro 5.14 will help you to obtain the modern Windows Vista look. All you need is just to redesign your program's most prominent icons to use the Aero-style. From this time onwards Visa Icons crafted by ArtIcons Pro 5.14 will strongly impact users' overall impression of your programs' visual design. ArtIcons Pro will improve the usability of your software by making programs, objects, and actions easier to identify and find.

ArtIcons Pro 5.14 Benefits at a Glance:
• Vista Aero-style Icons support;
• PNG format to compress high-resolution images without losses;
• Saving Vista Icons without compression provides compatibility with XP;
• Find and extract, edit, import and export icons and manage icon libraries;
• Lot's of delicate power instruments for creating and editing icons;
• Import and export ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc. images;
• Multilanguage support.

Pricing and Availability
ArtIcons Pro 5.12 runs under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003 and costs $39.95 (USD) for a single user license. Registered customers are entitled to lifetime technical support and discounts on further updates. Additional information on ArtIcons Pro, as well as its 30-day evaluation version with nag screens is available from http://www.aha-soft.com.

About Aha-Soft
This privately owned company was founded in 2000 and is off to a phenomenal start, receiving high praise in its first years of operation from top Internet download sites including ZDNet, TuCows and Simply the Best. Based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aha-Soft manufactures advanced image processing software for professional and amateur graphic artists. Aha-Soft's line of icon and cursor tools features innovative software designs to set new standards. For more information, please visit http://www.aha-soft.com.

AN EVALUATION COPY IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Product page link: http://www.aha-soft.com/articons/index.htm
Download link: http://aha-soft.com/ articons/aipro.exe (1.5Mb)
Company website: http://www.aha-soft.com

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Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/03/2006 -- IconLover 4.13 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, it's a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.

First, IconLover 4.13 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.

Second, IconLover 4.13 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.

Finally, IconLover 4.13 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.

The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.

This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265x256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265x256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.

IconLover 4.13 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars

Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.

If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.

System Requirements

• Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
• RAM: 64 MB
• Hard Disk: 8 MB

Company Website
http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm

Product Page
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm

Download
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/iconlove.exe

Screenshots
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Buy Link
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/reg.htm

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Krasnoyarsk, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/06/2006 -- Today we announce the release of IconUtils 4.12, a new step made by the programmers from Aha-Soft. This graphic editor now supports the TGA format, which allows you to create icons and toolbars for your Personal Digital Assistants. IconUtils is armed with a variety of flexible tools, which are able to turn the faint glimmer of your interface into a festival of colors. Icons processing tools, which are standard for IconUtils, include color picker, eraser, color replacer, pencil, paintbrush, flood fill, airbrush, line, curved line, arc, text insertion, rectangle, ellipse, etc. Functionality of a good modern icon editor implies that it is certain to support such essential components as layers, channels, image transparency control and the like.

A multitude of special effects are at your disposal. You can rotate, flip, roll, drop shadow, smooth\sharpen, apply hue\saturation, and use brightness. Thus, step-by-step and stroke-by-stroke new graphic images can arise on your screen: new icons, animated icons, cursors and the like. Having launched the program, you come across a navigation menu, where you can select an action you need to perform: create a new icon, create an icon from an image file, open an existing file, find icons in folders, extract icons from your computer and even more. Another important feature in IconUtils is its ability to download icons right from the Internet.

The benefits of the program go far beyond the bounds of what is mentioned above. IconUtils supports a multitude of graphic formats, including ICO, CUR, ANI, BMP, JPEG, JPG, PNG, GIF, PSD, PDD, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WMF, EMF, WBMP, XMP, etc. The program ensures that icon management is pure pleasure, which requires no special skills. This is the reason, why working with icon libraries is so easy here. The merits of this icon editor can be comprehensively assessed by everybody, who wants to find, extract, create and edit icons, cursors, manage icon libraries and image lists.

Pricing and Availability
IconUtils runs under Windows 9x-NT-2000-XP and costs $59.95 or 49.95 EUR. Volume discounts are available. We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. A trial version of IconUtils is available as a free download at http://www.iconutils.com/iconutils/iconutils.exe (5 Mb)

About Aha-Soft
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft is a software company focused on the development of graphics processing programs for the Windows platforms. Our catalogue contains such highly praised software tools as AhaView, ArtIcons, ArtCursors and Any to Icon. For more information, please visit http://www.aha-soft.com

AN EVALUATION COPY IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Product page link: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/index.htm
Download link: http://www.iconutils.com/iconutils/iconutils.exe
Web: http://www.aha-soft.com

Postal address: Pacific Business Centre, Att: Aha-Soft, #101 - 1001 W. Broadway, Suite 381, Vancouver, BC V6H 4E4, Canada
Phone: 206-309-0821

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