Icon creation has evolved. Use the industry standard to create, extract, convert, manage Windows® and Macintosh® icons. It supports all existing formats up to Windows Vista® 256x256 PNG-compressed icons and OS-X Tiger icons. Use drag & drop to easily make attractive icons from various image objects in seconds. Features a Photoshop transfer plug-in. Hundreds of features permit to produce high-quality icons using a fully integrated workspace.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French
• Release: 2006-09-18
• Size: 13 Mb
• Cost: 39.95 $

IconEdit2 is a truecolor icon editor for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP. It supports ICO, ICL, NIL, EXE, DLL, GIF, TIFF, BMP and JPEG files for open/extract/convert to icons. Can save your work as 48x48, 32x32 or 16x16 ICO (TrueColor, 256-color or 16 color), as well as GIF, TIFF, BMP or JPEG files. Allows you to paint, undo/redo, search for icons in your files and capture any 48x48, 32x32 or 16x16 screen area. Contains a library of sample icons.

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• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 20.00 $

Chameleon Icons converts images of any format into Windows icons with just a few clicks. Convert any picture or photo in BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TIFF format into icons for your Windows desktop, applications, folders, email and ICQ contacts. As it supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel, you can easily create semi-transparent XP icons. Chameleon Icons is equipped with a rich frame styles collection.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2006-09-12
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

Icon Constructor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF formats into Windows icons. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and much more. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel; now you can create semi-transparent XP icons easily. This robust program works like the Swiss Army knife of icon creation!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German, Russian
• Release: 2004-10-27
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

PC Icon Editor is a powerful tool designed to Create, Edit and Manage Windows icons and Icon Library files as well include XP icons . It has a fully integrated workspace that permits you to work efficiently and create professional icons in minutes. Also able to EXTRACT Windows icons from inside of EXE, DLL, DRV, SCR and ICO files on your computer and save them into ICO and Icon Library file as well.It can completely support XP Alpha Channel icons.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-24
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

A full-featured Icon Editor for creating and editing icons of any size and color depth, as wel as static or animated cursors, providing all the drawing tools and advanced image manipulation functions, with an extremely efficient arrangement. Special capabilities: add text at any angle, add special effects, create/edit XP 32-BPP icons or convert them for use in both XP and non-XP systems, replace icons in exe file, etc.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-15
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 30.00 $

Icon Converter Plus allows you to convert Windows BMP, RLE, GIF, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, WMF, EMF, PNG, PCX, JP2, J2K, TGA, RAS, CUR, ANI image formats into Windows icons. Make capture from your screen or applications and convert it into icon or image. Ability to BATCH conversion of Icon to Image and Image to Icon. Also able to EXTRACT Windows icons from inside of applications. Also able to Create, Edit and Manage Windows icons and Icon Library files.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-25
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

IconEdit2 is a TrueColor Icon Editor for Windows 9x/ME/NT4/200x/XP and Vista. It supports ICO, ICL, NIL, EXE, DLL, GIF, TIFF, BMP, JPEG and PNG files for open/extract/convert to icons. Can save your work as 48x48, 32x32 or 16x16 ICO (TrueColor, 256-color or 16 color), as well as GIF, TIFF, BMP, JPEG or PNG files. Allows you to paint, undo/redo, search for icons in your files and capture screen areas. Contains a library of sample icons.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
• Release: 2006-08-27
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 20.00 $

Create graphics with your favorite painting program, and then convert them into icon files with this program. You can also convert icon files into different images. The program supports BMP, GIF, ICO, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, and RAS. Change the dimensions, the color depth and edit the transparency/alpha (Windows XP icon format) mask. You can also convert images in Windows Explorer with the right mouse button.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-08-08
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Free Icon 32 Editor allows users to quickly and easily create small 32 x 32 sized windows icons. Features all basic tools like gradient color specification and multiple painting tools.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-08-26
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

Icon Changer is a software application that makes changing icons on the desktop fun and easy. It's a hassle-free way to personalize your desktop without having to open up any computer manuals. Simply click the icon you want to change, point at the one you like and that's all. Change icons to make navigation easier, to group similar applications together, or merely to customize and spice up your desktop. Try it!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-05-30
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Icon Craft is a complete icon and cursor solution. Edit icons and cursors in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. Create static and animated cursors and other tiny images. Arrange icons, cursors and images into libraries. Convert icons and cursors to BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD and WBMP formats, and vice versa. Process multiple icons at once. Customize the icons of various folders to be distinguishable at a glance.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-10-02
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 49.95 $

Wise Icon Maker can create icons, extract, and convert all graphics to 32-bit color depth Icon.Include comprehensive collection of drawing tools and effects.Have anti-alias and smoothness functions and excellent 3D gradient effects.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-10
• Size: 842 Kb
• Cost: 23.90 $

Create and modify icons, multi-resolution icons, cursors and animated icons for your Windows desktop, web site or other projects. Features: Full set of editing tools; Transparent, Inverse paint; Extract from cursor, icon (including OS2, Linux, XP and other formats), animation, program and image files; Export to animation or image formats; Edit icons within programs (EXE, DLL, etc.); Effects filters; Animation tools; Icon or cursor albums; more...

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-04-26
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 37.95 $

Icon Searcher performs fast scan of all local hard disks for icon images. The program handles lots of different file formats, like DLL, EXE, ICO, ICL, OCX ,SCR, CPL, BPL, VBX, DRV and extracts all available icons from files to the user-friendly visual image list. Icons can be saved as separate icon files or copied to the Windows and then pasted into any application, document, or other environment supporting image pasting.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
• Release: 2006-04-07
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

We experience that too many people have difficulties creating a suitable icon. The main problem for this is that the standard image editing tools are not able to edit and save icon files. To be of assistance, Goldshell has created a small icon editor, which allows you to create an icon in record-time. And more good news: it's for free! Download GoldIcon now, and start creating your own icons!

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2000-05-24
• Size: 182 Kb
• Cost: Free

Icon Works Pro is an easy to use icon editor that has all the functions for creating and editing icons and cursor files. Icon Works Pro can import image files of major formats including PNG, GIF, WMF, EMF, BMP, TIFF, and JPG.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-08-31
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 14.95 $

RealWorld Icon Editor is a feature rich icon maker and extractor. Its main advantage is the ability to create Windows XP compatible icons directly from images and 3D models. By a single mouse-click, RealWorld Icon Editor automatically renders your 3D scene into image or creates an icon. On each generated image, a configurable special effect is applied. A library with 37 icons and source 3D models is included.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech
• Release: 2005-04-17
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 190.00 $

AZ Paint Pro is a graphics application combining (i) Icon Editor, (ii) Animated GIF Editor and (iii) Paint in a single program. It possesses niche of features and capabilities far beyond what an ordinary paint program or a mere icon editor can provide.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-12-08
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 40.00 $

RealWorld Icon Editor is a feature rich icon maker and extractor. It is able to create Windows XP icons directly from images and 3D models. By a single mouse-click, RealWorld Icon Editor automatically renders a 3D scene into image or creates an icon. On each generated image, a configurable special effect is applied. A library with 36 icons and source 3D models is included.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech
• Release: 2006-04-14
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 89.00 $