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It’s right before our eyes but we hardly give it a second’s thought.
The humble cursor, that goes flitting about the screen doing what our thoughts command it to do.
Could it be the most neglected aspect of our computer’s personalization?
After all, it’s the desktop and the icons that get to be the eye candy.
The freeware cursor tool helps us create beautiful cursors “static or animated from image files.
More importantly, one doesn’t have to have a degree in Fine Arts to design the cursors.
A friendly wizard takes us through the steps.
Six tutorials cover the scope of this cursor program.
A cursor is different from an icon in the way it interacts with the screen.
In both static and animated cursors, the hot spot is the vital area.
The hot spot is an intended pixel that fixes the clicking point.
So cursor editors should have features that can handle these actions.
Cursor hot spots can be selected with a click of the hot spot tool.
TheTest Areais where the cursor can be previewed.
If the cursor does not move correctly, the hot spot can be changed accordingly using the tool.
Similarly, the animated cursors can be created frame by frame.
Sequencing the animations takes a few seconds with the left right shifting arrows.
Frames can be selected for applying effects one at a time or by all.
Setting the speed of the animations is a cinch with the slider.
The time between frames is a matter of setting the seconds using a dropdown.
This is basically an overview of the RealWorld Cursor program.
Being a graphical tool, the proof of the pudding will lie in the user experience.
What I liked about the software was that it didn’t diverge much from standard graphical applications.
The online tutorial includes video instructions along with text.
It will take me a few runs to get the absolute hang of it.
But even now, as a newbie I am going as straight as an arrow.
