Make and Edit Icons with Free Icon Editor

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<h1>Make and Edit Icons with Free Icon Editor</h1><strong> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_Julie Goodwin.aspx'>Julie Goodwin</a></strong><br /><p>When searching for a product to create or modify icons, what kind of tools will you consider? A complete image editing suite bloated with features, filling the entire DVD and costing more than half a grand? Or a small, tiny tool that costs you nothing, downloads in seconds and is made for pixel-peeping? If you're like most designers, you'll go for the second option. And you'll make the right choice. While it's totally possible to use Corel Draw and alike to make icons, these tools were never made for this task. Small graphics imposes its own requirements, and the choice of a right tool is important for getting perfect end result. Junior Icon Editor at free-icon-editor.com is a free icon editor made by Aha-Soft, a design company well-known for its numerous collections of stock graphics. This is the tool they use in-house to design the smallest sizes like 16x16 or 32x32 pixels, where each pixel matters. This free icon editor has everything you want to design, draw and modify raster icons. Supporting color depths of up to 8 bits per color channel (that's 24 bits in total), Junior Icon Editor offers full support for the transparency 8-bit channel, the Alpha channel, bringing the combined available color depth of the icon to 32 bits. Alpha channel is a separate layer that defines a semi-translucent mask for the icon. Depending on that mask, some parts of your icon can be opaque, transparent, or semi-translucent. This innovative feature brings two important benefits to images featuring the Alpha channel. First, there will be no more jagged edges: your icons will always look smooth all around. Second, your icons will blend smoothly on busy backgrounds including all kinds of colors, gradients and patterns. Icons with Alpha channel are supported in many systems such as Windows Phone, Vista, Windows 7, Android, Blackberry and Apple iOS devices. If you need support for terminal applications, Symbian OS or very old systems, you can save legacy 8-bit icons in 256 colors. Talking of compatibility, the free icon editor can import and save icons in Windows ICO, PNG, XPM, XBM, and ICPR formats. You can use icons in these formats on every desktop and mobile system existing. The free icon editor provides numerous of handy tools to create and modify 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 change individual pixels with a sharpie. Existing icons can be rolled, rotated, shifted or reflected. For 256-color icons, you can pick or edit available palette. True Color icons will use the entire spectrum. Junior Icon Editor is light and quick. Best of all, it's completely free. Get your copy of this free icon editor at sibcode.com.</p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />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.<p> Article Source: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Make-and-Edit-Icons-with-Free-Icon-Editor_112627.aspx'> http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Make and Edit Icons with Free Icon Editor_112627.aspx</a></p>

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