Axialis Icon Workshop

Posted by 22111
Oct 12, 2013 at 02:34 PM

Two years ago (meaning at exactly this time of the year, but not last year), AIW was last on sale at bits, so for the last some weeks, I looked out there for it in the hope of it perhaps reappearing there. It’s in the “next to come” section now, and I urge people to buy it. It’s winner of all the “10 best icon software” comparisons, and so on, and I did not buy it two years ago for its lack of really good icon collections management, but for (re)designing icons, it’s top (I trialled then).

So I’ll certainly buy, this time, and I also encourage people here to do the same, because in the end, you’ll more and more see how many things can be done within the file system, and then, both more appropriate icons and the same icons but in multiple color variants are of big help. This is not to deviate you from outliners, but as I said before, trying to put all your stuff into the outliner is not that good an idea after all, and so, you’ll need “parallels” between your outlined stuff and your other stuff, in outliner and file system, which is another outliner, even if for the time being, you need to “synch” by hand.

Some days ago there was another icon tool at bits, for replacing existant icons with others, 35 dollars (original price, and then 40 p.c. off I think) for nothing, since you can reassign icons by macro, don’t need an expensive tool for it, and those icons that went with the tool, were mostly really ugly, and not broad enough a selection, so I didn’t recommend that tool.

But there are many free icon collections out there, often with really beautiful icons, but which you need to manage/import, and especially often need to combine or alter, for example by putting numbers or characters on icons, and especially for creating the same, but in other colors.

And for such icon editing work, at this price, it’s an absolute steal - in many cases, it’s minor contenders of some software category that appear on bits, here it’s the leader of the pack.