Shell and Desktop - Icon Editors

PC Icon Editor 3.1

PC Icon Editor is a powerful tool designed to Create, Edit, and Manage Windows icons, cursors, and Icon Library files. Create Windows icon from digital photos and images. Export icons to bitmap file with ability to define transparency color. 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. The application has wizard and command line interfaces, it can completely support XP and Vista icons. Makes wonderful icons by using more than 12 filtering effects (Blur, Rotate, Sharpen, Soften, Colorize, Drop Shadow...). Supports all standard icon sizes from 16x16 until 128x128 and and custom sizes. Predefined Color Palettes: Windows, Grayscale, Spectrum, Windows XP, 16 Colors, Web and Optimize. Built-in drop shadow effect to create Windows XP compliant icons. More than 13 drawing tools instruments (drawing Line, Rectangle, Ellipse or adding Text...) , Five styles to Brush: Very Fine, Fine, Medium, Large and Extra Large, Three styles to Color Fill: Every Pixel, Even Pixels and Odd Pixels. Everything you see on your desktop or in the Start menu can be edited with PC Icon Editor.

IconEdit2 v.2.5

IconEdit2 is a truecolor icons editing / screen snapshot utility for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP. It supports ICO, ICL, EXE, DLL, BMP and JPEG for open/extract/convert to icons. Can save your work to TrueColor 32x32 or 16x16 ICO, as well as BMP or JPEG files. Allows painting, undo/redo, search icons and capture any 32x32 or 16x16 screen area. Contains library of 43 icons.

IconEdit2 5.0

IconEdit2 is a truecolor icon editor. It can save your work as TrueColor, 256-color or 16-color ICO (up to 128x128 pixels), GIF, TIFF, BMP, JPEG or PNG files. Allows you to paint, undo/redo, search for icons in your files and capture screen areas.

Frontbase Image to Icon v1.0

Create graphics with your favorite painting program, and then convert them into icon files with this program. The program supports BMP, ICO, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, and RAS formats. You can change the dimensions and the color depths of the images when you convert them. You can also set pixels to transparent, or if the image has a color depth of 32 BPP (Windows XP icon format), you can set an alpha value for each pixel.