It's a good icon program but waaayyy too much money for it. It does have a nice interface is is very easy to use, even for beginners, has plenty of options, good scaling, etc... However, there are numerous other apps to create icons just as good for free. If it was cheaper, I wouldn't mind it but after comparing it, I didn't feel it was anything special. I can create excellent icons in Gimp and that's free or numerous others. Yes it is a good icon program, I don't deny it but not for the price. If it was MUCH lower in price, I would have rated it higher. I would still recommend it, but only if someone wants to pay that much for it.
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Sep 12, 2008 for v6.00.80730
The software developer responded to this review on Sep 15, 2008:
Dear gimpguy,
Thanks for your precious opinions on our product IconCool Studio 6. IconCool Studio 6 is an item of professional icon software for creating, editing, converting, extracting 32-bit icons and vista icons, also supports for multi-format *.ico file by one icon project creation. We offer our customers two types of versions to buy: IconCool Studio 6 Standard($39.95) and IconCool Stuidio 6 Pro ($59.95). IconCool Stuidio 6 Pro involves IconCool Mixer, a fantastic assistant tool for vista icon editing, developed by our icon software experts with some exclusive functions which enable you to create custom icons from scratch, using multiple layers and a variety of ready-to-use vista icon elements. We at all times keep the principle of high value for money and good quality for
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I was impressed by the sharp looking interface and vast feature set. You can draw icons with automatic anti-aliasing--very cool.
But I have been disappointed because both versions of this software that I have purchased (
3.31 and 5.23) have been very, very buggy. Program crashes often, locks files sometimes that it is trying to save to, tools behave erratically, etc. I do not know how they can release this as a finished product. It appears to me to be still in early beta.
I have both versions mentioned above and I have to switch between them because a certain feature will cause the program to crash in one version and not in the other version and vice versa.
I really like the program and wish very much that it was solid. It would be a great program for the money if they would get the bugs fixed.
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Dec 07, 2007 for v5.26.71125
The software developer responded to this review on Aug 19, 2008:
Dear dhowell,
Thank you for your review our product IconCool Studio Pro and your long period of great concerns our products. After our IconCool Studio Pro released, we found some illegal cracking versions had circulated in market.
To protect our intellectual property rights and our customers right, we began to use some software protectors for preventing the software cracking since the end of 2007, which might result in the actions unstable. Under our team hard working, it is happy to say that the new upgrade version: IconCool Studio 6, has just been released, some special functions offered in this version. Meanwhile, we welcome your contacting us for the free upgrade to
IconCool Studio 6 and give us your precious suggestion. Please contact us via supports@iconcool.com, and we will send the latest version of IconCool Studio.
Thank you so much.
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