Making Icons Software

You can create, edit, import, export and find icons and manage icon libraries
Create, edit and replace icons, cursors, etc.
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Edit and find icons and manage icon libraries
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Edit and find icons and manage icon libraries
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Easily create your own Windows icons.
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$37.95 - CursorArts Company

Complete suite for creating and modifying icons, multi-resolution icons, cursors and animated icons. Use for desktop icons, Web Site bookmarks, programs, other projects. Features: Full painting tools; Import or export images; Edit or add icons; more.



$29.95 - Aha-soft

Find, extract, edit and create Windows icons in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. Import and export ICO, Vista ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, WBMP, GIF images. Create and manage icon libraries. Create and store images with several layers.



$39.95 - Aha-soft

Find, extract, edit and create Windows icons in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. Import and export ICO, Vista ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, WBMP, GIF images. Create and manage icon libraries. Create and store images with several layers.



$19.95 - Stardock Systems

IconDeveloper is a program that makes it a snap to create your own icons for Windows. With just a few clicks, any image you find on the Internet or create in a paint program can be turned into an icon.



 
Create icons directly in Adobe Photoshop

Icon Plugin for PhotoShop
Free - SibCode

Icon Plugin for Photoshop enhances Adobe Photoshop with an ability to export and import Windows icons (.ico). Thanks to this ability, users can create icons directly in Adobe Photoshop, using its powerful arsenal of creative tools and stylistic options. No intermediate files or extra icon editors are required. The plug-in supports multi-format icons, transparency and semi-transparency and allows making icons compatible with Windows XP and Vista.



 
Change and export standard Windows icons

CustomIcons
$14.95 - Aha-soft

CustomIcons allows you to change standard Windows icons and customize desktop attributes. You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects - My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, system folders, your folders and other. You can also hide or change shortcut overlays. There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, rebuild the icon cache.



 
Change all the icons used by Windows at once.

IconPackager
$14.95 - Stardock Systems

IconPackager is a desktop-enhancement utility that lets you change all the icons used by Windows at once. You can download these packages at Web sites such as WinCustomize.com or create your own by replacing the icons of individual items on your computer one by one, then saving them as an icon package. It's very easy to use and has thousands of icons available in packages on the Net.


 
Create, edit and replace icons, cursors, etc.

IconForge (Deutsche Version)
$37.95 - CursorArts Company

German version. 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, other formats), animation, program and image files; Export to animation or image formats; Edit program icons (EXE, DLL, etc.); Effects filters; Animation tools; Icon or cursor albums; etc.


 
Change your Win98/Me/Win2k icons to XP

XP Icons
$19.95 - Camtech 2000

Give your Win98/Me/Win2k System icons the look of XP by changing your Start menu, Desktop, Drives, Folders and various file type icons to XP. XP Icons changes nearly 100 Win98/98SE/Me and Win2k system icons to the new Windows XP Icons Set. Version 3 now allows installing the complete set or changing over 60 Windows System icons individually with your choice of over 140 XP icons included with the program or any other you may have.


 
Hide tray icons, restore after a crash

12Ghosts TrayProtect
$19.95 - 12Ghosts Inc.

To keep track of many tray icons you may hide those that you don't need all the time. You can still access such hidden tray icons in the context menu of 12-Tray. It will also restore tray icons after a 'crash' or restart of the taskbar. Usually the taskbar comes up after a crash without any tray icons. You had to stop and restart all related programs to restore the tray icons. Now, 12-Tray will restore tray icons automatically.


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