Create and Modify Icons with Free Icon Editor
When looking for a tool to create or edit icons, what type of tools will you consider? A complete image editing studio bloated with features, filling the entire DVD and with a price of more than half a grand? Or a fast, compact tool that costs you nothing, downloads in seconds and is made for pixel-peeping? <br><br> If you're like most designers, you'll go for the second choice. And you'll make the right choice. While it's totally possible to use Corel Draw and alike to create icons, these tools were never made for the task. Pixel-level graphics lays its own requirements, and the choice of a right tool is important for getting perfect end result. <br><br> Junior Icon Editor is a free icon editor created by Aha-Soft, a design company known for its numerous collections of stock graphics. This is the tool they use in-house to draw the smallest sizes like 16x16 or 32x32 pixels, where each pixel matters. <br><br> The free icon editor comes with everything you need to create, paint and edit raster icons. Working with color depths of up to 8 bits per color channel (24-bit True Color), Junior Icon Editor provides full support for the extra 8-bit channel, the Alpha channel, bringing the total available color depth of the icon to 32 bits. Alpha channel is a separate layer that defines a semi-translucent mask for the rest of the image. Based on that mask, some parts of your icon can be opaque, transparent, or semi-translucent. This powerful feature brings two important benefits to images using the Alpha channel. First, you can forget about jagged edges: your icons will always look smooth all around. Second, your icons will fit smoothly on busy backgrounds including all kinds of colors, gradients and patterns. Icons with Alpha channel are used in many systems including Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Android, Blackberry and Apple iOS devices. <br><br> If you need support for terminal applications, Nokia phones or legacy systems, you can save legacy 8-bit icons in 256 colors. Talking of compatibility, the free icon editor can open and save icons in Windows ICO, PNG, XPM, XBM, and ICPR file formats. You can use icons in these formats on every desktop and mobile system in existence. <br><br> The icon editor provides a number of handy tools to draw and edit icons at pixel level. You can draw icons with a brush, pen, airbrush, use a number of geometric shapes such as ellipses, rectangles, lines and curves. You can edit separate pixels with a sharpie. Existing icons can be rotated, rolled, shifted or reflected. For 8-bit icons, you can choose or edit available palette. True Color icons will use the entire spectrum. <br><br> Junior Icon Editor is light and fast. Best of all, it's completely free. Download your copy of this free icon editor at free-icon-editor.com.
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Julie Goodwin is a web designer who regularly uses SibCode free stock editor to modify stock icons to save time and money while guaranteeing high quality, professional results.
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