RealWorld Cursor Editor 2013.1

user interface updates from RWPaint The new version of the cursor editor includes changes in the color picker, drawing tools and image effects, which were first introduced in RealWorld Paint. Uploading cursors to the cursor gallery is now less confusing and it...

RealWorld Photos 2013.1

user interface updates from RWPaint A new version of RWPhotos contains user interface updates from RWPaint, including simplified color and fill style selector, a new drawing tool - Shape, which can also be used to create accurate selections. RWPhotos remains f...

RWPaint 2013.1 service pack 1

bug fixes and minor enhancements RealWorld Paint just got a bit better. It is recommended for all users of the 2013.1 version to get this update. It fixes various errors and there are also a couple of new features. List of changes. If you use the portable vers...

RealWorld Paint 2013.1 released

vector layers have arrived After more than a year, there is a new version of RealWorld Paint. The most notable new feature are obviously vector layers. Vector layers remember what shapes were placed into them and allow you to modify all aspects of these shapes...

RealWorld Cursor Editor 2012.1 released

with animated GIF import/export The new version of RealWorld Cursor Editor brings lots of small improvements, but also a couple of important new features, including: * Support for multi-resolution Windows 7 cursors. * Ability to create cursors from animated GI...

RealWorld Paint 2011.1 released

now supporting animations After a more than 2 years, there is new version of RealWorld Paint. There are many new functions and a new name. RealWorld Paint.COM was shortened to just RealWorld Paint. In the new version, you can: * Edit animated GIFs. * Import an...

Animated previews of cursors in the library

for browsers supporting APNG format OK, another update for the cursor library and I think you'll love it. Cursor previews on the cursor set and cursor detail pages are now animated and they are placed over a cross-hair to show you, where the hot spot is. The p...

RealWorld Photos 2011.1 released

The new RealWorld Photos has finally arrived. There are some many changes and enhancements: * Shapeshifter tool - interactively deform parts of a photo - make your muscles bigger, make your waist thinner, there are countless options. * Simple and Extended cont...

Lofted surface for 3D

plug-in for the icon editor This new plug-in for RealWorld Icon Editor adds a new type of surface to the 3D editor. These new surfaces are created by defining two or more curves that the surface must intersect. The plug-in can be installed from the Online page...

Make icons from images online

if you have the right image The online image to icon converter is a new addition to the collection of online tools on rw-designer. If you have an image and need to quickly convert it to .ico file without any additional processing, using an online tool is the r...

Make cursors online

...only the static ones The online cursor creator is here! Make cursors without downloading or installing anything. Draw them directly in your browser. Use tools like pencil, line, ellipse, or flood fill. Apply colorize and drop shadow effects. OK, the tools a...

RealWorld Icon Editor 2010.1 released

few days ago...in case you did not notice There are layers, there is a simple icon to image converter. There is a lot of other things. The 3D editor got iterators to complicate things even more. But no worries, they are optional and they can be handy, watch th...

Icon library becoming more user friendly

uploading from web possible I have made a couple of modifications to the icon library. The icons that are not part of any set are now displayed similarly as in the cursor library with 100 icons per page. Each icon gets its own page, where you can examine all o...

Speeding up RealWorld Paint - Sunday stream

https://youtu.be/WxjNoZEgIn4 Streaming tomorrow on Sunday 25th, at 7:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time), that is 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 10:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). The main topic is the performance improvement in the latest bui...

Batch Icon Extractor released

easy-to-use & free Just drag and a file or folder on this tool and it automatically extracts all icons... and its free! Get it from here: Batch Icon Extractor

SVG stream on Sep 1st

talking about importing, exporting, and editing SVG icons The next stream starts just like last time at 7:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Thursday September 1st, that is 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 10:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). ...

Next stream on Thursday 11th

smoother animation in Cursor Editor and Paint The stream will start at just like last time at 7:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Thursday 21st, that is 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 10:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). https://youtu.be/YR...

YouTube stream on Thursday 21st

Future of RealWorld Paint, Icon Editor and Cursor Editor The stream will start at 7:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Thursday 21st, that is 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 10:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). I will be talking about what ch...

List of most productive artists

in the Gallery The Gallery now contains a new page with authors. There, you will find 50 of the most active contributors. It is now easy to browse the library by authors. The order is currently determined by the number of author's sets and popularity of the se...

Unicorn3D 2013.1

simple 3D editor Unicorn3D is now released as a standalone freeware 3D graphics editor. People, who would like to learn the basics of 3D modelling are welcome to try U3D. The application is released as a portable .zip package that only needs to be unpacked and...

Introducing Icon assembler

a new online tool Our family of online tools just grew. The new Icon assembler makes it easy to compose your own custom icon from image fragments prepared by various authors. This online tool shares the image packs with RealWorld Icon Editor, but allows you to...

Gallery pages updated

The pages with icon sets and cursor sets in the gallery were changed a bit. Now there is a bigger Download button with a link to download instructions. The list of icons or cursors in a set is not using a table anymore. I know that the current look is not perf...

New way to look at your art

accessible from your profile page Cursor and icon authors now have a new way to look at their art. This new method displays cursor and icon sets created by a single author, orders them by creation date, groups them by months and puts them on a time axis. To ac...

February 2012 - month of Weight Loss

RealWorld tools need a diet RealWorld applications have been here for almost 7 years now and all this time they have grown and grown. If this trend continues, they will become fat and slow and hard to maintain and use. Time for a diet. It is the dreaded softwa...

January 2012 - month of Bug Squashing

just software bugs, don't worry Here is my new year resolution: there shall be less errors in my software. And I can use some help with that. This month, I'd love to hear about any errors you have found in RealWorld tools in the past, but never talked about th...