Icon aficionados get the tool of their dreams

For some people icons and cursors are just small graphics. But for a small dedicated group of icon aficionados, it's life, trade, hobby, passion and much more. IconLover 2.10 is a professional icon editor and manager created specially for these folks who like to tinker with existing icons and cursors or create new ones.

IconLover is an "all-included" type of software, meaning to does everything from searching, extracting, and managing icons to creating, editing and rescaling small graphics. While, due to its nature, IconLover is a rather complex application, using the program is quite easy, because the interface is straightforward and uncluttered.

For editing images, IconLover offers a variety of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes, as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software is equally well equipped in the effects department and offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects.

IconLover supports all popular image formats for import/export/conversion (ICO, BMP, JPEG, ANI, CUR, GIF, PNG, TGA, WMF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and Adobe Photoshop PSD) and is capable of creating any type of icons and cursors – semitransparent, static or animated (cursors), in any standard or custom size, with color depth up to 32-bit True Color.

The program also comes with icon library management tools, batch processing and option to replace desktop and folder icons.

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