Icon Tools

IcoFX is an icon editor that enables you to create, retouch and edit icons. It supports transparency and True Color for Windows XP and Windows Vista, and offers a variety of editing tools, including gradients, blurring, sharpening, darkening and more. Other features include real-time preview, icon extraction, image import, 40+ image effects, desktop capture and more. Considering that it is free, IcoFX offers quite a nice array of features, that will meet most icon editing needs.

Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is an easy to use tool for creating icons, cursors, and other pixel graphic images. It can create Vista compatible icons and 32 bit icons up to 256x256 and provides a variety of drawing and selection tools, as well as filters (drop shadow, remove matte, glow...) to help you with the icon design. The program can also extract icons and cursors from executable files. Other features include file drag and drop, gradient styles for filling shapes and more. No installation required. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro can open/save ICO, CUR, PNG, XPM, BMP and JPEG formats and also handle ANI files, animated cursors.

Bitmap to Icon Wizard is an easy-to-use program to create Windows icons from bitmap (.bmp) files. It supports output with 32-bit alpha-channel transparency as well as 24-bit, 8-bit, and 4-bit. The generated icon file (.ico) can contain up to 5 different icon sizes (256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, and 16x16). Bitmap to Icon Wizard requires .BMP input files, so you may need to convert your files to BMP before using this software to generate the icons.

Icons from File allows you to extract icons from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) and save them as individual ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF files or as a single contact sheet. You can also copy icons to the clipboard or print the icons. The program includes a small file browser that allows you to easily find file that contain at least an X number of icons.

icon sushi is an icon editor that supports the creation of Windows XP Icons. It allows you to open icons of up to 128x128 and edit the Transparency-Mask and Alpha channel. You can also use the tool to extract icons from exe, dll and other supported file formats. Supports the creation of Windows XP Icons and import/export to PNG format.

IconXpert is an icon viewer, browser an extractor. It allows quick browsing of dll`s or folders, you can search for new icons inside EXE or DLL files or browse your existing icon collection. Icons can be copied to clipboard or saved as BMP or ICO file. IconXpert offers a handy feature that let`s you add new icons to a collection from the right click menu. It also supports launching of your icon editor and creation of favorite entries for faster navigation.

IconArt is an icon editing and drawing tool, that allows you to create new icons from scratch, edit existing ones or to import an image (or part of it) and turn it into an icon. The editor provides all the tools you need, including pen, spray, fill , selections and objects. You can also move, rotate and flip the icon, apply masks, change colors and more. In addition, the program allows you to extract icons from .exe and .dll files and import them into the work area for editing and also supports static and animated cursers. IconArt is easy to use, compact and well worth the download.

Before you search the Internet for cool icons, look a little closer to home. Chances are you ll find some neat images hiding inside the files on your very own hard drive. Icon Snatcher is a free 32-bit utility that can extract icon files from any .exe, .dll, or any other type of file that might contain embedded icons. Each icon may be saved in either BMP, ICO or GIF format, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into your favorite graphics editor. You can also pick the background color for maintaining the transparency of bitmaps and GIFs.

Randys Icon Editor is an easy to use editor for 16 color windows icons such as the popular favicon.ico that is used to provide graphical bookmarks for web sites. It offers several drawing tools, including line, circle and rectangle as well as preview and undo features. Very easy to use, no installation needed. The program can open .bmp and .ico files and save results as .ico icon files.

Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables. It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, and Win2000 operating systems. Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG resource images can be viewed. WAV and MIDI audio resources can be played. Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo resources can be viewed as decompiled resource scripts. Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application. Resources can be saved as image files (*.ico, *.bmp etc), as script files (*.rc), as binary resource files (*.res), or as untyped binary files (*.bin). The program is also capable of modifying, adding and deleting resources. Intended for advanced users.