Icon Tools

IconCool Manager is a tool to manage, keep, modify, search, extract, convert, create, enlarge and contract icons. An icon library with dozens of sample entries is included and accessible through a tree-style organizational system, allowing you to categorize icons and create new classes and sublibraries within them. You can search icon in the library by keyword and add or edit the keyword of any icon. An icon search, extraction, and conversion tab lets you view icons within files and save them in various sizes as ICO, CUR, ICL, GIF, JPG, EMF, WBMP or BMP images. You can also convert image files and create icons and add to the icon library. IconCool Manager has some special functions - it can enlarge or contract a transparent icon, and the new icon will be transparent too. It can also convert any part of a picture to a transparent icon by only draging your mouse. IconCool Manager includes 1300 sample icons which are free for registered users.

Icon Catcher enables you find and extract icons from various source files ( .ico, .exe, .icl, .dll, .scr, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and others). It offers a fast scanning engine with filtering options for color depth and icon size, and support for 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel. The extracted icons can be saved into collections or .ico files. Additional features include Windows Explorer integration, automatic duplicate removal and clipboard copy.

Axialis IconWorkshop is a tool to to create, convert and export professional quality Windows icons. It includes an icon editor, complete with drawing tools, numerous filters, image adjustments, drop shadows and more that you can use to create new icons from scratch, modify existing icons, or import images and convert them to icons. You can also convert Macintosh icons (up to OS-X) to Windows format, and use a plug-in to create icons from Photoshop. Axialis IconWorkshop also includes a media library to manage your icon files, and a tool to customize Windows system icons on your PC.

IconCool Editor is a powerful icon editor to edit icons, cursors and web graphics. It comes with all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, GIF, JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and WBMP image files. In addition, it offers more than 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, Color Balance... as well as 20 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Redial Gradient, Rectangular Gradient, Wave, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, Noise, Arbitrary Rotation and more. IconCool Editor is also a smart image capturing tool can be used to capture images of various sizes from desktop or any other software. You can convert images in 25 formats to icons, You can extract icons from EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX or any other files and then edit or re-save them. In addition, it offers a 100-level Undo/Redo function, support for non-standard icons sizes and more. Supports XP and Vista icons.

IconCool Studio Pro is a complete solution for 32 bit icon editing and creation. In addition to icon and cursor formats, it also supports editing of GIF, JPG and PNG image files. The program includes standard image editing tools, as well as a variety of filters and effects. Other features included support for Vista icons, PSD plug-ins, Animation GIF Builder, integrated icon search feature and more.

Icon to Any is a wizard based application that allows you to convert Windows icons and cursors into various other image formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG images, WAP bitmaps, Windows icons, cursors and Resource Compiler (RC) files. The program is able to process multiple files at once.

IconEdit2 is aWindows icons editing utility that supports ICO,EXE,DLL,BMP and JPEG for open/extract/convert to icons. The program can save your work to TrueColor or 16-color 32x32 or 16x16 ICO files, as well as BMP or JPEG files. features include painting, search for icons and capture of any 32x32 or 16x16 screen area for.

Aha-soft ArtIcons allows you to create, edit, view, extract and find icons and manage icon libraries. With it you can create and edit icons with image formats in standard and custom sizes, and in color depths of up to 16 million colors. Paint tools: color replacer, color picker, spray, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line, rectangle, curve, ellipse, 3d frame, enhanced gradient and chess fillings. ArtIcons lets import, export and change color palettes for icon images. You can import icons from .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif files; capture screen; export icon images to .ico, .bmp, .jpg, .rc files; extract icons from Windows executables and libraries (.exe, .scr, .icl, .dll, .il, .nil, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and other), cursor and animated cursor files (.cur, .ani). It allows you to split icon into simple images and split icon libraries into icons. You can also create icon libraries for better and more efficient icon storage. ArtIcons lets you scan files and folders for icons, delete equal icons from libraries, sort icons in libraries, drag and drop files from Windows Explorer or other file shell, drag and drop icons from one library to another. You can copy and paste icons in libraries as well as copy and paste images to other applications.

Microangelo Toolset is a complete suite of icon editing tools that includes tools to search, extract and organize icons, design and create new icons, and create animated cursors. The program is provided as four separate utilities, Librarian, Studio, Browser, and Explorer. Microangelo Toolset offers a wide range of icon editing features and drawing tools with support for all sizes and color formats as well as transparency and Vista icons.

My Buddy Icons is an easy-to-use icon tool to customize, modify or create your own AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) buddy icons, then send them directly to your AIM messenger. The program includes more than 100 original icons which were created by Newera IconCool Team and it allows you to customize your the icons with 20 different image filters and adjust their color-balance or brightness. A built-in capture tool also allows you to capture desktop content as an icon and add it to the collection or save it as .ico file. You can import any image or photo and quickly convert it into a custom buddy icon (or regular icon file). Additional features include links to online resources and more. My Buddy Icons can import images of all popular formats, including BMP, GIF, ICB, ICO, JPG, JPEG and many others.

Any to Icon allows you to convert various image formats into Windows icons. You can convert individual files or entire folders and also break down icon libraries into individual icons. Furthermore, you have the option to set the color depth, size and transparency before converting your images. The program supports BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, WMF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and CUR formats.

Icon Scanner is a tool to find and extract icons from a variety of program files, including EXE, DLL, OCX, icon libraries and other file types that are commonly ued to store icon resources. The program can scan an entire folder with optional sub-folders and presents you with a preview list of all items that were found during the scan. You can filter the results by color depth and icon size and save icons in GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG or ICO formats. Icon Scanner supports Windows XP icons with Alpha channel transparency.

Easy ICON Maker is a small and easy-to-use icon editing program for editing transparent or opaque icons of any size. It supports true color icons (24 bits) as well as transparency. The built-in editor allows you to create custom icons, using various drawing tools and special effect filters. You can also use Easy ICON Maker to extract icons from EXE or DLL files or import graphic files such as BMP, JPG or GIF.

Create, extract or edit icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors with this complete icon/cursor editing studio. it can also be used for other projects like website URL favorite icons (favicon), filmstrip animations, wallpapers and more. IconForge's features include Transparent/Inverse paint, extract icons from EXE, DLL, ICO, ANI, ICL, XPM/XBM, WBMP, Palm Datebook, or CUR format files, read/write image formats and clip and/or scale on import. You can also create icon resource libraries or insert into program files (EXE, DLL, VBX, OCX, CPL and DRV). Several effect filters are included as well.