***** AISS (available from http://www.masonicons.info/) is required to use this
program *****

"Icon Editor" is another one of my 'bloated' programs that I made with Hollywood
5.0. I hope you enjoy it!

Requirements: In addition to having AISS installed on your system, you also need
to have Stephan Rupprecht's "CopyIcon" (available from OS4 Depot) and the
png.iconmodule (png_im.lha from OS4 Depot).

In a way, this program is a remake of PNG_Icon_Editor (an older program of mine,
the source code of which was lost due to mechanical failure of my hard drive);
but I've changed the program so much, I thought a new name, just "Icon Editor,"
would be better (also because the icons do not have to be in PNG format).

Icon Editor can be used for such things as:
*Separating Alpha-Channels
*Basic Painting (of both image and alpha channel)
*Cropping (decreasing margins)
*Adding Space (increasing margins)
*Scaling
*Rotating
*Flipping
*Shadow Effect
*Glow Effect
*Merging Two Images Together
*Adding Text
*Making a Text Stencil over an Image
*Smoothing Edges (for either, or both, the image and the alpha channel)
*Blurring
*Sharpening
*Adjusting Gamma, Contrast, Brightness, Saturation, and Hue
*Tinting
*Image and Alpha-Channel Inverting
*Box Fade
*Elliptical Fade
*Shape Fade

Hints and Tips:
*Using the ".info" extension will Save an Icon (without it, a png image will be
created).
*Placing the mouse pointer above the buttons will cause hints to be displayed in
the window's title bar.
*Switching between states (if the icon has two states) is done with the button
in the lower right-hand corner.
*New Icons can be loaded quickly by dragging and dropping them onto the main
window.
*The Merge Tool also allows for drag'n'drop.
*The Paint Tool allows the keyboard (arrow keys and spacebar) to be used
together with the mouse.
*The Paint Tool Ellipse & Rectangle buttons can be right-clicked to change from
Line to Filled.


Special thanks to:
*Mason for his AISS artwork (used extensively throughout this program).
*Frank Ruthe (cha05e90) his beta-testing and icons.


Version 1.2 (2/20/12):
*New Functions have been added (such as Sharpen, Gamma, Contrast, Brightness,
Saturation, and Hue) and many old functions (such as Blur, Glow, and Shadow)
have been improved (thanks to the new functionality of Hollywood 5.0).

Version 1.1 (9/12/10):
*Added a tool that inverts the colors of the image and/or the alpha channel.
*Fixed a display bug.
*Fixed a bug in the Paint Form Fill tool.

Version 1.0 (9/8/10):
*First attempt.

*********** If you like this program and would like to drop me some e-mail or
PayPal encouragement (or if you have any suggestions to make this program
better) my e-mail address is: revbloedel()gmail.com***********