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SWF Scout

Flash movie (SWF) creation programming library with SWF reading support. Can be used in Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#, ASP and ASP.NET. Even existing SWF flash movies can be used as template or sprite in a new flash movie. Multimedia (FLV video and mp3, wav sound) support in included as well as support for EMF, JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, GIF images as input and EXE, SCR as output. Can add pre-loader, use alpha channel and more!

Axialis IconWorkshop

This graphics tool (formerly AX-Icons) is a powerful tool designed to Create, Extract, Convert, Manage and Redistribute Windows® Icons. You can create, load and save all Windows® Icons (ICO) and Libraries (ICL). It supports the new Windows XP Icons with Alpha Channel images (a.k.a. Smooth Transparency). With this new version, you'll be able to open Macintosh® Icons and convert them to Windows® format and much more...

Axialis Pro Screen Saver Producer

Create and Compile Windows XP/2000/98/ME compatible screen savers. Create Sprite, Flash(r), Slideshow or Video based screen savers. Alpha Channel transparency. Sprite collisions. RSS reader embedded in screensavers. Customizable SCR icons and illustratons. Integrated Workspace with many tools. WYSIWYG editor, Media Explorer, Multi-document interface, Librarian, Compiles as SCR with preview, Professional install/uninstall generator. NO ROYALTIES.

Icon Converter Plus

This graphics utility allows you to convert Windows BMP, DIB, RLE, GIF, JPG, JPE, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, CPT, WMF, EMF, PNG, PCX, JP2, JPC, J2K, TGA, RAS, ICO, CUR, ANI image formats into Windows icons. Make capture from your screen or applications with Capture Screen and convert it into icon or image. Ability to BATCH conversion of Icon to Image and Image to Icon with many filtering effects and different patterns. It supports XP Alpha Channel icons.

SkinCalc

This software, which is completely free, features standard and advanced calculator functionality, a spreadsheet interface, and skins. Skins make it possible to change the layout and functionality of the software, with effects that include non-rectangular shapes, user-configurable transparency and alpha channel translucency. More than 100 skins are available from the sites listed at skincalc.com, which also has instructions to create your own skins. This utilities software is categorized under skinnable apps, skins, calculators, productivity.

Image Broadway

This graphics tool is an image editing program that lets you create and edit graphic images like a pro in just minutes. From simple tasks like red eye correction to more advanced image editing capabilities, Image Broadway does it all and does it very well. It offers advanced image processing technologies while hiding beneath a user-friendly interface. It also offers Image Map for interactive graphics and optimization technology reduces file size. This graphics software is categorized under image editor.

EyeC++

The EyeC++ library is a high-performance, high-quality, C++ class library intended for both image file format conversion and image viewing tasks. It supports all of the more common file formats as well as a handful of perhaps a little bit more esoteric ones. Pricing is differentiated so that you pay only for those file format 'modules' that you need. Full source code is supplied.

VideoMan

This graphics tool 3.0 is a complete new version with capability to import-export video from DV cameras, and use modern video compression formats. VideoMan 3.0 comes with completely new Capturer module for import/output of video through capture boards and DV cameras. Video editing capabilities are significantly enhanced with features like unlimited number of overlay tracks, navigator window, super screen color keying, etc.

IT Image Resizer

This graphics tool is used to resize pictures in most popular graphic formats. It resizes them in batch mode, which means that the user can select hundreds of images, select desired size and just click the Resize button. The program does everything else. The images can keep the original aspect ratio or can be exactly resized to the specified size. Produced images can be saved in the same locations or in the specified folder. This graphics software is categorized under utilites.

XP Artistic Icons Collection

Looks sell. No one likes software that looks like its interface was made in 1993. And certainly not too many people will frequent a website that looks like it was created by a teenager. Have something to "de-uglify?" Check out these royalty-free icon collections with over 440 icons and small graphics elements that come in all sizes - from 16x16 to 128x128, 8 to 32 bits. Most are WinXP icons with alpha-channel. XP Artistic Icons Collection is licensed as demo and filed in desktop icons section.

Active Image Processing Component

Load and save multiple image format like jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp and tiff Support image resizing Support image processing method like brightness/contrast/hue/saturation/sharpness/smoothness adjustment Support drawing text, line and shape Support combing image together with alpha blending or transparent effect Support meta tags like Exif or IPTC

AniSprite

This software is an advanced high-performance sprite animation library for Microsoft Windows. Selected features are semi-transparent masks, alpha-channel mixing, automatic hit testing (collision detection), integration with frame animation libraries and curved (spline) paths. Full source code is available.

Movie Player Pro ActiveX OCX SDK

Provide video, audio playback function within their business Powerful media player, video player activex. change the audio pitch, audio tempo in real time. Video mixing with multi video. Overlay text and bitmap on video in same time. Multi-Line Scrolling text on video. Support Mov, M4a, Mp4, 3gp, Divx,RM, AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 , ASF, WAV, MP3, MID file playback. Overlay text, image on video. User define scrolling type, alpha value. Movie Player Pro ActiveX OCX SDK software is a shareware filed under development active x utilities.

Super Icon Helper

Software that is a utility that allows you to extract all icons out of the files on your hard drive.The colors may be monochrome (one bit), 16-color (four bits), 256-color (eight bits), true-color (24 bits), or true-color and alpha-channel (32 bits). Super Icon Helper can extract icons from both 16-bit and 32-bit applications and libraries, including the following types: ICO, DLL, EXE, OCX. You can save them to a file.

Damage Control

Optimize images for bit-depth reduction (4444, 565, 555, CLUT8) with full support for alpha channels. Apply highly innovative 3D-spatial diffusion algorithm and advanced alpha-dithering. Supports exotic bit-depths (such as 4444 and 2222) and generates weighted 8bit RGBA palettes for use with PNG8. An essential tool when developing interfaces and graphics for embedded systems, mobile phones, handheld games, settop boxes, etc. Damage Control is licensed as shareware and filed in graphic apps converters, optimizers section.

Images Generator

Powerful graphic editor with capabilities of 3D graphics creation. The small size and convenience of using are combined with ample performance. Includess some ways of creation 3D graphic. Gradient fill is carried out in view of shape of image area. Unlimited amount built-in and derived shape templates. Vector and raster brush, created by the user.The sizes and angles of turn of a brush can vary at its movement on trajectory. Unique method of transformation that can be used at processing photos. This graphics software is categorized under graphic, development tools, web design, art.

Real Label

This development tool is the most adaptable text display component on the market. You can use it instead of the Visual Studio Label control and it will display text at any angle! With Linear Gradients for text and background, supporting true transparency and system colors. Fully and easily editable within the Visual Studio IDE for quick setup that requires no code - get running in seconds!

IconXP

Use this powerful utility to edit icons and customize Windows. IconXP contains a variety of paint tools to let you edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. For Windows XP icons, you can add impressive drop shadow and smooth effects. You can import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, CUR, ANI, GIF, WMF, PNG, XPM, XBM, WBMP and Adobe Photoshop PSD files. You can customize Windows Desktop icons and folder icons.

FlashEngine

This software is a set of components for Delphi and C++ Builder which add extra features to Macromedia Flash ActiveX - such as loading from stream, grab real 32-RGBA frames, real transparency playing. Real player transparency, with anti-aliasing. Windowless Player control. Grab flash frame to 32-bit bitmap with alpha channel. Load flash from exe-resource. Load flash from stream, and store your flash in DFM. Use grabbed flash frame as texture in 3D

ConceptDraw

This graphics tool 7 is a powerful business and technical diagramming package for both Windows and Macintosh. It is intended for drawing schemes and diagrams of different kinds: business diagrams and flowcharts, network diagrams and software charts, technical drafts, floor and landscape plans. ConceptDraw 7 allows import and export files to a large number of raster, vector, multimedia and text formats.

Tiger Icon Studio 3D

powerful 3D and 2D editor, create professional looking Vista or XP style icons for desktop or web in this complete package.

Siberix PDF Library

This development tool is a native class library for the .NET framework designed to create industry standard PDF files. Development Tools commercial listed in pdf, c#, .net tools.

GConvert

This graphics tool is a full-featured icon toolkit that lets you extract, create, edit, manage, compile and convert icons. Support for all icon images (any size, color depth plus 32-bit MacOS X, XP and Vista icons); create and convert icons from/to several image formats (ICO, BMP, PNG, PSD, GIF, JPG...); manage icon libraries (ICL, ZIP, DLL); search for icons; edit icon images; store favorites; use batch operations or enhanced icon drag/drop support. This graphics software is categorized under graphic apps icon tools.

Icon Catcher

This graphics tool 4.0 is a high-speed batch icon extractor and processor that can scan over 3000 icons in one minute, supports 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel. Extended filtering options let the users set the color palette or size or combination of other parameters to make search for necessary icons easy and fast. The program extracts icons from any source files and allows you to later save them into collections or .ico files.

DigiRostrum

This graphics utility is a software rostrum camera that lets you create AVI or QuickTime files from JPG, BMP etc. Zoom, pan and rotate a virtual camera in 3D across your stills to produce broadcast quality video files. DigiRostrum has presets for PAL and NTSC and advanced rendering options including motion blur, field based rendering, safe areas and contrast compression. Its intuitive controls make producing your own rostrum work simpler than ever before. DigiRostrum software is a demo filed under video, multimedia utilities.

Solo Windows Forms Studio

Save money by purchasing our best components: EditMask, RealLabel, RealBlender and ThumbnailCreator, in this fantastic bundle deal. This bundle will fill a lot of your Windows Forms development needs with just one purchase. This development tools software is categorized under development components, libraries.

Paint Express

The image editor fully supports ICO, CUR, BMP, reads PNG, JPG, JPEG files. Features:Create multi-format icons/cursors from existing images in one-click; Convert images with transparency from Photoshop, or Paint Shop into Windows XP icon/cursor or 32-bit bitmap with alpha channel; View, edit images using editing tools, filters, effects; Capture any image from the desktop screen; Search on the computer and extract resources from EXE, DLL, OCX file.

AMC Graphic Workshop Pro

This image management and digital darkroom package features multiple browser windows, batch processing, drag and drop, thumbnails, dozens of image filters and more. It converts, prints, views, dithers, captions, transforms, flips, rotates, scales, scans, crops, color-adjusts, quantizes, catalogs, creates web pages, optimizes and wreaks special effects on most popular image files. Get up to speed quickly with extensive documentation and tutorials. Graphics shareware listed in graphic apps editors tools.

ConceptDraw WebWave Mac

ConceptDraw WebWave is an essential tool on the stage of web site/application prototyping and design, page mocking-up and site-mapping. It includes more than 4590 ready-made graphics, shapes, templates and wizards for quickly creating professional diagrams and drawings. The application runs both on PC and Macintosh and allows seamless files exchange and provides obvious benefits to individual and corporate users.

Artistic Icons Collection

Looks sell. No one likes software that looks like its interface was made in 1993. And certainly not too many people will frequent a website that looks like it was created by a teenager. Have something to "de-uglify?" Check out these royalty-free icon collections with over 230 icons and small graphics elements that come in all sizes - from 16x16 to 128x128, 8 to 32 bits. Most are WinXP icons with alpha-channel.

GIMP

This is a cross platform free image editing software. This photo editor can help you to edit and enhance your digital pictures. It is designed for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. Supports layers, alpha channel, has an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer and an image format converter. Fully extensible with a large number of available plugins.

Absolute Color Picker ActiveX Control

This development tool is a component that includes color selection for different color modes and gradient filling dialogs. It is designed with simplicity in mind and could be easily integrated into most of contemporary IDEs. Extensive methods and properties description, code examples and Alpha-channel support will help any level programmer to master it at zero-time, saving a great amount of efforts on project development. This shareware is listed under multimedia and design authoring tools, multimedia and design utilities, programming activex, programming components and libraries, web development web design utilities category.

Icon Constructor - advanced icon maker

Icon Constructor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF formats into Windows icons. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and much more. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel; now you can create semi-transparent XP icons easily. This robust program works like the Swiss Army knife of icon creation! This graphics software is categorized under graphics icon editors, graphics business graphs, graphics utilities.

Amor SWF to Video Converter

This powerful utility supports the conversion of Macromedia Flash SWF files to MPEG files compatible with AVI, VCD, DVD, and SVCD, and to animated GIFs, including movie clips, action scripts, and audio in Flash movies. The program allows interaction with Flash content during a conversion; there are no skip frames. It also supports conversions to PNG, TGA, GIF, BMP, and JPEG images.

SXSkinComponents

Open source skinnable visual components package for Delphi and C++Builder. Default skins: Win Classic, WinXP, Opera Standard, skins based on popular Opera skins and others. Components features: full alpha-channel support, translucent controls, MMX-optimized, changing effects on events (mouse over, mouse out, focus, unfocus etc), JPEG&PNG support, soft drawing of geometric figures (rectangles, circles, etc).

ArtCursors

This graphics utility allows you to find and extract cursors, create and edit cursors, import and export cursors and manage cursor libraries. With this program you can create and edit static and animated cursors with color depths up to 32-bit Ttue Color. ArtCursors contains different paint tools, including enhanced gradient fills. You can import cursors from image, icon and library files and from executables. This shareware is listed under cursor tools, cursors category.