Shell and Desktop - Icon Editors

Axialis IconWorkshop 6.01

Icon creation has evolved. Use the industry standard to create, extract, convert, manage Windows® and Macintosh® icons like never before. It supports all existing icon formats up to Windows® Vista (256x256 PNG-compressed icons) and OS-X with alpha channel. IconWorkshop is the first icon editor to support creation of the future 256x256 icons for Tiger (to be implemented soon by Apple). You can also easily convert icons from one system to another and transfer them using MacBinary files. Use drag & drop to easily create attractive icons from various ready-to-use image objects in seconds. A pack of 150 image objects is included in the product. Many others available for download. A powerful editor permits to create icons using many tools including numerous filters and effects. Once an image is created, add several images formats in one click (automated hi-quality image creation in different sizes and color depths). Create icons from images with alpha transparency (PNG, PSD, JPEG 2000, BMP, GIF...). Create PNG, JPEG 2000 and Web-optimized GIF images from icons. If you work with Photoshop®, you can import PSD images with layers or use our plug-in to transfer images in memory and make your icon in a few clicks. Numerous batch procedures have been implemented in IconWorkshop to automatically perform operations on a large number of files. For example, you can create icons from a set of PNG files (ICO files are created). You can also automatically convert several icons between Macintosh® and Windows® OS in seconds. Use a powerful librarian to easily manage all your icon and library (ICL) files. A file explorer permits to browse disks and work with files (images, icons, programs...). This advanced explorer displays files in thumbnail preview mode. Developped in C++ using MFC, IconWorkshop features a fully integrated workspace. An exhaustive help system has been implemented including getting started lessons, how-to procedures and the reference manual.

IconForge v.7.10

Create and modify icons, multi-resolution icons, cursors and animated icons for your Windows desktop, web site or other projects. Features: Complete painting 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...

Resource Tuner v.1.95

Resource Tuner enables you to customize your favorite programs by modifying the executable file (EXE, DLL, SYS, MSSTYLES, SCR and more) resources. Resource Tuner makes it a snap to replace them with other images, texts and sounds more to your liking. Extract images, edit them, and place them back. Or extract images from one application and put them into another. Have fun personalizing any application to your own unique taste.

Exe Icon Changer 4.270

The tool can replace the icon in the executable file easily very much ! Even the executable file compressed or the size of the icon is inconsistent, he can replace easily ! It can also change the icon of other executable file types such as Dll, Ocx, Scr and so on. The icon of folder and driver can be changed by Exe Icon Changer too. If you want to extract and save the icons in exe file, Exe Icons Changer will be your first choice. It can save the icon as two formats: bmp and ico.The Function Lists of Exe Icon Changer 1. Replace all kinds of executable Icons and permit to take place of any icons in different sizes. The substitute Icons can be choosen from Icon files or other executable files. 2. Find out all icons from the executable files and save them with Icon type (*.ico) or Bitmap type (*.bmp).3. The functions of backup and restoring icon.4. Change the icons of folders or drivers .