Aha-Soft announces the release of version 5.45 of IconUtils, a set of programs necessary for everyday needs of the design artists. The set has all the tools needed for work with cursors and icons. Also the new version can create ICNS icon files for Mac OS. With the spread of Windows 10, OS X and iOS 9, design artists face a new challenge. The requirements, regarding the quality of icons, rose accordingly to the visual quality of the new OS. Now more and more applications and sites need big-sized, semi-transparent icons adorned with various visual effects. IconUtils is what you need to keep up with the new standards and easily design flat style icons. IconUtils offers AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any and IconLover. All together these programs comprise a very useful set of tools for any professional design artist. AhaView is a fast and convenient image viewer that can help you organize your library of digital images and convert them to a variety of formats. Any to Icon and Icon to Any are two handy tools that create a solution for making icons from any type of an image and vice versa. IconLover is a powerful icon editor perfectly suitable for designing smooth and sleek icons for Vista applications. It can create and edit icons of any size and color along with animated and static cursors. In addition to the classic set of drawing instruments, it can apply various visual effects to icons, make icons from images and create multi-layer images. It can also be used for managing icon and cursor libraries, as well as modifying icons within Windows executables. There"s one more way IconUtils can facilitate design process for Windows applications. If you develop software for Windows you must take into account that Windows 7/8/10 supports only 32-bit DLLs. Thus, all icons stored in 16-bit DLL and ICL files cannot be applied to API on Windows more. Using IconUtils you can easily deal with that problem. IconUtils supports both 16-bit and 32-bit DLLs and can convert them to each other. Now you can convert all your 16-bit ICL for use in modern Windows. Supporting graphics of any arbitrary dimensions, IconUtils 5.45 is an ideal tool for working with small graphics. IconUtils 5.45 is able to process 16 and 256-color icons as well as True Color images with alpha channel, which means, that icons for newest and oldest versions of Windows can be created. It"s even possible to create 1024x1024 icons for Macintosh OS X and iPhone. All the commonly used file formats, from PNG to ICO and ICNS are supported. System requirements: Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10, 32 MB Hard Disk, True Color video mode. Product page: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/index.htm Download: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/iconutils.exe Contact Aha-Soft Pacific Business Centre, Att: Aha-Soft #101 - 1001 W. Broadway Suite 381, Vancouver, BC V6H 4E4, Canada. Web: http://www.aha-soft.com