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What's New in the Version 6.x Series

Here is a partial listing of enhancements found in the IconForge 6.x series:

Latest Additions
  • Fixes - Fixed a problem which could cause IconForge to forget to update the icon in an .exe or .dll after cutting and pasting from another image. This update also addresses various minor problems which seem only to affect systems with certain configurations;
  • Feature Enhancements - improved support for WinCE icon types.

    New Effect Filters
  • Perspective - vanish into the distance, see the Effects menu
  • Solarize - color intensity filter, see the Effects menu
  • Spotlight - highlighting filter, see the Effects menu
  • Shadow - Alpha drop shadows, see the Effects menu

    New XP-style Alpha Icons and Cursors
  • Produce semi-transparent 32-bit Alpha channel icons and cursors for Windows XP, see the How To tutorials
  • Paint in normal Color Channel mode
  • Fine-tune the alpha transparency mask on the Alpha Channel layer
  • Paint with semi-transparent colors on the Composite layer
  • Save, Open and Convert existing icons, cursors and images to Alpha-channel resolution
  • New Color Depth option under the Options menu allows you to instantly covert the image to or from 32-bit Alpha mode
  • XP-style icons may be added to Multi-resolution icons, icon and cursor Libraries, etc.

    New Icon Wrapper Tool
  • For a document, script or other file which does not normally contain icon resources, this utility may be used to create a small program, with icon, to hold the file - see the Tools menu topic
  • Automatically extracts the wrapped file when run
  • Option to specify a program to edit or view the file
  • Option to automatically delete the extracted file

    Other Improvements
  • Executable Icon and Cursor Libraries - more efficient and smaller file sizes. No .DLL's need be distributed with the generated program, see the Library menu topic
  • Color Sampler - added a function to display the RGB values of colors in each pixel as the tool passes over the image, see the Tool Bar topic
  • Enhanced File Selector - preview now displays all icons in multi-resolution icons when browsing through files, see the File menu topic
  • Restore - new option allows restoration of IconForge's registry to its original state, should it become corrupted somehow, see Help menu topic
  • Installation - new options when installing and first running IconForge
  • Inverse Color - this color palette selection now disabled when editing XP-style icons, as this attribute does not exist at this resolution