Content

General

• Overview
• Main Features
• Tutorials

Concepts

• Icons
• Data Types

User Interface

• Main Window
• Colors
• Preview
• File Explorer
• Main Menu
• Toolbar
• Work Area
• Handling Selections
• Tools

Adjustment Dialogs

• Custom Filter
• Brightness / Contrast
• Hue / Saturation
• Color Balance
• Dimension
• Rotate
• Shadow
• Fadeout
• Opacity

Tool Dialogs

• Batch Process
• Resource Editor

Other Dialogs

• Preferences
• Properties
• Create Windows Icon
• Create Macintosh Icon
• Insert New Image
• Import Image
• Frames
• Extract
• Snapshot
• Tip Of The Day
• Download Languages

Other

• Troubleshooting

Main Window

The IcoFX user interface is broken up in to 8 major areas:

1. Main Menu

This is where you can access the various menu items. Commands accessible from this location will be referenced using Menu/Command notation. For example, File/Exit means to click on the File menu, and then click on the Exit command.

2. Toolbar

The toolbar contains several buttons for executing various commands and adjusting settings of IcoFX. All the commands that can be found in the toolbar can also be found in the main menu or other dialogs. They are placed on the toolbar for easy access.

3. Tools Window

Here you can select your drawing tool. Also here you can set the properties of the given tool if available.

4. Preview Window

In this window you can preview the selected image at its original size.

5. Colors Window

In this window you can select the colors to draw with. You can store favorite colors. It also contains several controls for fine-tuning color values.

6. Explorer Window

Using this window you can view the graphical files supported by IcoFX. It offers thumbnails of images, so you can easily find a given image. With drag and drop support you can easily open or import images.

7. Work Area (Canvas)

Here you can draw, edit your image and perform other actions.

8. Status Bar

Here you can see some useful information like the cursor position, the size and position of a selection and more.