You can become a virtual artist and plunge into the world of art: all you need is to install Art Cursors 5.0. This is a sure way to diversify the look of your desktop and change the monotonous style of your work. With Art Cursors 5.0 youll be able to create and edit static and animated cursors in color depths up to 16 million colors; create and edit cursors for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel; create and store images in several layers. This program will turn work with your mouse into pure pleasure. You can choose any file of the following formats to set as your Windows cursor: CUR, ANI, ICO, ICPR, WMF, EMF, BMP, WBMP, JPG, GIF, TGA, XBM, XPM and PNG files. Moreover, you can export cursor images to CUR, ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, XBM, XPM, WBMP, and RC files. Working in the program is as easy as this. First you specify the parameters of a cursor youre going to paint (its size, color and conversion modes) and then you start the process of creation itself. Once youve started working, the whole variety of painting tools will be at your service, including modification of images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror effects. Whats more, youll be able to export animated cursors to animated GIF images and image list bitmaps and extract cursors from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files. One more pleasant feature is an ability to create cursor libraries for better and more efficient storage and to collect cursors from folders and subfolders into libraries. Art Cursors 5.0 is all you need to turn your mouse arrow into a piece of art!