ArtIcons Pro and Any to Icon Pro. Pro and Con

There are two main ways of creating icons - converting them from pictures and making them manually in an icon editor. Both ways have acknowledged solutions, represented by grade A tools from Aha-Soft. They are: Any to Icon Pro, a handy image-to-icon converter and ArtIcons Pro, a powerful icon editor with many features. These applications provide you with the most convenient design experience as well as superb results. If you need programs for creating great buttons of any size and format you have just found it!

ANY TO ICON PRO - CREATE A CLASSY ICON IN A BLINK OF AN EYE

Any to Icon Pro ( http://www.aha-soft.com/anytoicon/ ) was written to make icon making extremely easy. Why spend time on manual design if you already have an image collection well suited for icons? In that case, Any to Icon Pro will get the job done in a few seconds. All you need to do is select a photo, define icon sizes and other parameters and start the conversion process. That's it! You've just made a sleek icon! Such an approach allows you to reach high productivity and still fascinate end-users with icon quality.

Thanks to the intuitive controls, working with the program is a piece of cake. You can add images using drag and drop as well as insert pictures from the clipboard by copy-and-paste operations. Also the built-in wizard and command line support will be of help in converting multiple images at once. As well as supporting a wide range of popular image formats, the program can also extract icons from libraries stored in .exe, .dll, .scr, etc. Any to Icon Pro has a set of predefined icon sizes and colors from monochrome to 32-bit. You can also leave the color 'as is' and select the custom icon size that suits your needs.

ARTICONS PRO - PROFESSIONAL SET OF DESIGN TOOLS WITH NEAT UI

Another icon design solution is ArtIcons Pro, the ultimate tool for icon creation and editing. Delivered in a user-friendly interface, it provides a broad range of icon design features. Whichever need you may encounter in creating buttons for your website or software, you can be sure that ArtIcons Pro have all the features required to carry out this job with brilliance. What's more, ArtIcons Pro comes with a multilingual support, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese and others.

ArtIcons Pro has a competently organized set of drawing and editing tools for icon creation. Using them you can create and edit buttons of any possible size and color. The program allows you to create multi-layered images, modify various effects, like shadow and opacity, paint icons with gradient and chess fill, manage icon libraries and more. ArtIcons Pro processes a great variety of picture formats, so you can import and export files not only from picture to icon.

The work of these two programs can be combined in order to get even more impressive results. You can quickly create icons with Any to Icon Pro and then refine icons with ArtIcons Pro ( http://www.aha-soft.com/articons/ ) to make them look fabulous. This "double" approach will open up new opportunities for enhancing the appearance of you project thus creating a competitive edge that will lead you to success!

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