Interface

• Interface
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• Small Images
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• One Click Icon Creation
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• Snapshot
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• Preferences

Interface

IcoFX has a panel based multilingual interface. You can fully customize the interface by rearranging, docking, un-docking, hiding, showing the panels. You can save your customization in workspaces. IcoFX comes with many predefined workspaces to make certain tasks easier. For example it has a predefined workspace for working with palette based images.

Small Images

IcoFX was specially designed to work with small images like icons and cursors. It comes equipped with hard-edged and pixel-precise tools like the pen tool, zoom level up to 10000% and grid for easier orientation. It has all the tools you'll need to create your pixel art.

One Click Icon Creation

IcoFX has special windows to create all the needed image formats for your icon with a single click. It can create the needed image formats for Windows, Macintosh, Android and iOS/iPhone icons.

Snapshot

Using the Snapshot window you can create snapshot images from the currently opened icons to display them on your website or presentation. Optionally you can add a watermark to your image.

Preferences

IcoFX has many options ranging from simple ones like the color of the background checker board, or the language of the user interface, to more advanced ones like the image re-sampling algorithm used.

Icon, Cursor and Image Strip Creation

• Create
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• Image Strip
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• Import
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• Extract
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• Capture

Create

IcoFX was specially designed to make working with icons and cursors easy. You can create icons from scratch, convert your favorite images to icons or extract icons from exe and dll files. Using IcoFX you can create or convert also Macintosh icons.

Image Strips (Business/Site license only)

IcoFX makes working with toolbar image strips quick and easy. Just open it in IcoFX and you can edit the images individually. IcoFX takes care of the image cutting at load and the image gluing at saving so you can focus on editing the images.

Import

You can import your favorite images and create icons or cursors from them. IcoFX supports many image formats like svg, png, jpg, bmp, gif, apng, tiff, jpg2000 and xpm. You can also save your icons as images.

Extract

If you open a Windows or Macintosh binary file IcoFX will try to extract the icons and cursors from it. IcoFX can extract from EXE, DLL and OCX Windows binary files and Mac Binary, AppleSingle and AppleDouble Macintosh binary files.

Capture

Using IcoFX you can capture any part of your desktop.

Image Objects

Image objects are pre-made images that you can use to create icons.

• Image Objects
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• Explorer

Image Objects

IcoFX comes with a lot of pre-installed image objects. You can make icons simply by combining the image objects.

Explorer

Using the integrated File Explorer you can view the graphical files supported by IcoFX. It allows you to easily work with image objects, by simply dragging them to your image to combine them.

Tools

IcoFX has all the tools that you need to quickly improve, correct, repair, and get rid of any flaws in your images.

• Tools
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• Brushes
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• Gradients
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• Text Styles
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• Quick Mask

Tools

IcoFX makes more than 30 tools available to select, edit and retouch your images.

Selection tools: Rectangular, Elliptical, Lasso, Magic Wand, Move tool, Crop
Painting Tools: Brush, Pencil, Gradient, Fill, Line, Curves, Text
Shape tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle, Custom Shape
Retouching tools: Eraser, Color Eraser, Blur, Sharpen, Brighten, Darken
Measuring and navigation tools: Color Picker, Hand, Zoom, Ruler

Brushes

IcoFX comes preloaded with many brush types. Additionally you can create your own brush types with the Brush Editor.

Gradients

IcoFX comes preloaded with many predefined gradients. Additionally you can create your own gradients using the Gradient Editor.

Text Styles

Using the predefined text styles you can quickly create beautiful texts. You can also create custom test styles.

Quick Mask

The Quick Mask mode allows you to make precise adjustments to your selection. Paint with any of the painting tools to make adjustments to selections. You can easily refine your selection by adjusting the smoothness of the selection border.

Image Adjustments

IcoFX makes available a great collection of intuitive and professional-grade color correction tools. Easily adjust hue, saturation, shadows and highlights, brightness and contrast to make your icons stand out.

• Hue
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• Brightness
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• Balance
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• Levels
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• Curves
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• Opacity
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• Fadeout
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• Shadow
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• Bevel
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• Resize
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• Replace

Hue and Saturation

Using the Hue and Saturation feature you can set the hue and saturation or colorize an image.

Brightness and Contrast

This color adjustment tool lets you make simple brightness and contrast adjustments to your image.

Color Balance

Use the Color Balance tool to fine tune the overall mixture of colors in an image.

Levels

Using the Levels adjustment you can correct the tonal range and color balance of an image. You can adjust the intensity levels of image shadows, mid-tones, and highlights.

Curves

The Curves feature gives you full control over the tonal range of an image giving you access to the individual color channels.

Opacity

The Opacity feature gives you the possibility to increase or decrease the opacity of an image.

Fadeout

On this dialog you can fade out the image or selection. Similarly to the Opacity dialog this will also change the opacity of the image or selection, but you can configure an opacity gradient that will be used.

Shadow

Using the shadow dialog you can add drop shadows or inner shadows to your image.

Bevel

The bevel dialog adds various combinations of highlights and shadows to an image.

Resize

Using the resize tools of IcofX you can quickly resize, extend or trim your image or canvas.

Replace Color

The Replace Color dialog is oriented to replace a range of colors while the Replace Pixels dialog gives you more control over what will be replaces and makes it easier to replace colors in pixel arts.

Effects

• Effects
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• Custom Effects

Effects

IcoFX comes preloaded with many effects that you can apply on your images, icons and cursors. Combine different effects for unique, near-effortless artistic creations.

Custom Effects

IcoFX even allows you to create your own custom effects using the Custom Filter dialog. The possibilities are endless.

Layers

• Layers
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• Blending Modes

Layers

You can create non-destructive image compositions by using layers. IcoFX comes with a simple and intuitive Layers palette where you can quickly select, arrange, merge, change the blending and opacity of layers.

Blending Modes

The blending mode specifies the way in which the pixels of a layer interact with the pixels of an underlying layer. IcoFX comes with 24 blending modes to enhance your icons.

Batch Process (Business/Site license only)

Using the Batch Process dialogs you can work with multiple files at the same time.

• Image To Icon
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• Icon To Image
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• Extract
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• Group Images to Icons
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• Apply Actions

Image To Icon

Using the "Batch Create Icons or Cursors" dialog you can create icons or cursors from images. It can also convert icons to icons. You can use this to convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons or vice versa. You can remove image formats from icons or add new ones.

Icon To Image

Using the Batch Create Images dialog you can convert your icons or cursors to images. Each image format inside the icon will be a separate image file.

Extract

Using the Batch Extract Icons or Cursors dialog you can extract the icons or cursors from exe or dll files. Extract the standard icons from Windows dlls of from your favorite application's exe file. You can extract from all kind of Windows and Macintosh files. If it contains an icon it will be extracted.

Group Images to Icons

You can quickly combine images with similar names to Windows or Mac icons.

Apply Actions

Using the Batch Process dialog you can apply effects and adjustments to images using predefined actions.

Resource Editor

Using the resource editor you can create icon or cursor libraries. You can also change icons or cursors inside Windows exe or dll files.

• Icon Libraries
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• Exe and DLL

Icon Libraries

Using the Resource Editor dialogs you can create and edit icon or cursor libraries. If you have many icons and you'd like to group them together you can create an icon library. This way it is easier to handle and redistribute your icons.

Exe and DLL

Using the Resource Editor dialogs you can add, remove or change icons or cursors in exe or dll files.

Colors

IcoFX has many color related panels to make working with colors easier.

• Color Modes
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• Palette
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• Swatches
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• Recent Colors

Color Modes

IcoFX supports three color modes for easier color selection: RGB, HSB and grayscale. You can select the desired color mode on the Colors. You can also select the transparency (alpha) of the color.

Palette

On the Palette panel you can easily select the desired foreground and background color. In the case of palette base images this panel will give you access to the palette of the image.

Swatches

The Swatches panel is used for storing often-used colors. You can add or delete colors from the panel. IcoFX comes with already created swatches for your convenience.

Recent Color

You have quick access to your recently used colors and some predefined quick colors. You also have a global color picker that can pick a color from your screen.