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| Shareware & Free Icon Software to make your own Icons - Shareware and free icon software to create icons. You can even make buddy icons by yourself, no need to buy the icons just create them using these icon softwares. Customize all sort of icons and graphics and personalize them to use it as aim buddy icons for aim messenger. Free Icon Software to make Buddy Icons for Aim |
Free Icon Software & Tools To Make Your Own Icons |
AiryFolders
Assign your own meaningful icons to important folders. Break rows of uniform folders with tailored icons. Add some more fun to your desktop experience. Increase your productivity and individuality. Customize file folder icons, both opened and closed, with AiryFolders, and then see how folder icons change appearance to reflect folder states when it opens and closes. Create shortcuts for customized folders on the desktop or somewhere else, and see shortcut icon changes too, when target folders open or close. The AiryFolders installation set includes more than 25 couples (opened and closed state) of original 3D-looking icons, suitable for various file folders. More free coupled icons for folders are available. |
| Anything's an Icon
Create and edit 16, 256, or full color icons for use in all versions of Windows with Anything's an Icon. Use the image conversion tool to convert scanned images of friends and family, images from digital cameras, and images from games into full color icons. Compress any size images into icons. Use a full color pallet, and many drawing tools to get the right look. This program includes a sample library of 256-color icons scanned from popular games. |
| Any to Icon
Any to Icon converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, WMF, WBMP and CUR formats into Windows icons. You can add files and folders from Windows Explorer or other file shells using drag and drop, and you can break down entire icon libraries into individual icons. You can change color resolution and size to create customized icons. Any to Icon allows you to extract icons from folders and libraries. It's easy to process multiple files at once. Version 1.25 adds support for semitransparent PNG images. Note: Trial version limitations: nag screen; you can not convert JPEG and GIF formats; only 7 files at once. |
| ArtIcons
Use this powerful utility to find and extract, edit, import and export icons and manage icon libraries. ArtIcons contains a variety of paint tools to let you create and edit icons with image formats in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. You can import icons from image, cursor and library files and even from executables. ArtIcons allows you to arrange icons into libraries. It supports Windows XP icon format. |
| AWicons
AWicons lets search, create, edit, import, export and manage icons, cursors, small graphics. Features: multilingual interface; full Windows XP icons support; many formats supported (ico, cur, ani, png, gif, bmp, jpg); all color formats supported (mono, 16, 256, 24-bits, 32-bits); many drawing tools; many drawing modifiers; many effects; import from large image and executables; working with icons library (icl). |
| Axialis IconWorkshop
Shareware & Free Icon Software to make your own Icons : Create, extract, convert, manage, and redistribute Windows icons. There is an icon editor, and it now supports Windows XP icons with smooth edges and shadows. You can read and convert Macintosh icons to Windows. Create icons from transparent PNG, BMP, and Photoshop PSD with layers. Many filters and image transformations are featured. Compile your icon libraries into install packages (compressed) for redistribution. It features Windows icons customization. Create several icons from images in one operation using the advanced built-in explorer with thumbnail preview and more. New features added in version 5.02: New interface design; Batch create PNG, PSD or BMP images from icons (several icons at once); Plug-in filter to transfer images with transparency directly from Photoshop or any compatible application to IconWorkshop through memory (no more temporary PSD file); several small enhancements and a few bug fixes. |
| AX-Icons
AX-Icons is a powerful and easy-to-use program for editing and managing icons. It is ideal for retouching, creating, archiving, and distributing icons. It allows you to create all kinds of icons in sizes from 16-by-16 pixels to 72-by-72 pixels, as well as custom sizes. The built-in editor includes tools for numerous painting effects: gradients, lines, rectangles, ellipses, text insertion, mirrors, rotations, color replacement, 3D frames, multiple brush sizes and shapes, undo/redo, advanced palette support, fill, and more. Version 4.5 features a new interface, "favorites" list management, enhanced bitmap importation, the ability to export as a bitmap, and the ability to save as DLL. |
| Bitmap to Icon Maker and Picker
Convert Bitmap to Icon and pick-up icon from exe files of dll files. It enables you convert Bitmap file to Icon file in easy-to-use application. It can also pick-up icon from exe files and dll files, then you can save it to ico and bitmap file. |
| Change Folder Icons
Change the standard icon of folders to another found icon fast and simple with this small utility. You can do this pressing right mouse button on a folder and selecting the item 'Change Folder Icon' from pop-up menu. You can search for icons with specified parameters in all types of resource files starting with the selected folder. Also you can: Extract an icon from any type of resource files; export all icons from resource files into .ico-files; change an icon for a drive (HDD, FDD, CD-ROM); manage your changed icons; make icons, changed earlier by another methods (with Windows XP or another program), independent from source files; search icons with specified parameters 'Number of colors' and 'Size in pixels'; export/import icons to/from libraries (.lib files) for further use on another computer or share them with friends. |
| Easy Icon Maker
Easy Icon Maker is a small and easy-to-use icon-editing program. It allows you to edit a transparent or opaque icon with sizes of 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, or 64x64, or those that are customized. The colors may be monochrome (one bit), 16-color (four bits), 256-color (eight bits), true-color (24 bits), or true-color and alpha-channel (32 bits). You can edit your own professional icons easily and quickly. You also may extract an icon from a binary file such as EXE, DLL, or OCX. You may import from or export to graphic files, and a capture button allows you to capture any area on the screen to the editor. Filter functions allow you to process the icon with special effects such as lightening, darkening, softening, and sharpening. Version 4.0 has many new features. You can make and edit a Windows XP-style icon easily and quickly. This version also includes the features Icon Explorer, Icon Searcher, and Icon Changer. |
| E-Icons
E-Icons lets you customize the shell icons on your system easily and quickly. You can change any of the standard Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP icons for the desktop, start menu, drives, folders, and files. It lets you also use icon themes so you can change all icons at once or create your own themes, and it gives you the opportunity to assign an icon to any folder, any drive, and any registered file type. |
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| Folder Style
Assign eye-catching icons to individual Windows folders, making every folder different. Simply select a folder and pick an icon you like from the built-in gallery of 350 icons, and the job can be done in only four mouse clicks. |
| GConvert
GConvert is a nice tool that everyone who likes icons should use. You can insert your icon in your document or export them to your disk. GConvert extracts icons from files and displays them in a list: select the icon you want and it is converted into the format you want. GConvert reads any icon files such as executable, DLL, ICL, OCX, VBX, CPL, BPL, NIL, IL files and then allows you to save extracted icons as icon, bitmap, metafile, GIF, JPEG, PNG formats, or even copy them to the Windows clipboard for direct use into your applications, documents, Web pages. GConvert offers you more flexibility and functionality than other standard icons extractors: extract any image from icons (16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, custom sizes with all color depths including 32-bit XP alpha icons); export your icons to a Web page, a folder or an icons library (ICL); create icons from bitmaps: custom sizes and colors depth supported; scan folders for hidden icons on your system and export them as icons libraries for your personal use, and more. |
| GetIcon
Icon ripper from exe,dll,scr,sys and other executables. Is fast, small, powerful and easy to use! Just select directory (even whole disk) and then click on search. After some time you will get many icons in destination directory. It's freeware. |
| Icon Catcher
Need more icon images for your desktop or documents? Where to look for them? The Internet? Good guess, wrong answer. Before downloading one of those gigantic icon collections, consider that one probably exists on your computer already--and it's one click away if you have Icon Catcher. Icon Catcher finds all icons hiding in thousands of files on your computer. Extended filtering options allow users to select icons by color resolution, size, or by any combination of these parameters to make searching easy and fast. The program supports all possible icon formats, including 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel, and can process images with various dimensions from 16-by-16 to 96-by-96. Images can be exported to various formats including PNG with true alpha-transparency. It's easy to manage large icon collections with this tool. The program is intuitive and requires no special knowledge. |
| IconCool
IconCool is a powerful tool to manage, extract, convert, modify, search, create, enlarge, or reduce 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 libraries within them. You can search icons in the library by keywords, and even add or edit the keywords 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, GIF, JPEG, BMP, or PNG format images. You can also convert images from 25 formats to icons. You can export a total icon library to an ICL file. You can move icons easily using the powerful drag-and-drop functions. IconCool has some special functions, including the ability to enlarge or reduce a transparent icon, convert any part of a picture to a transparent icon by simply dragging your mouse, change the color depth of icons easily, and the smart image capturing tool can be used to capture images of various sizes from your desktop or any other software. A third tab includes a large directory of 400 icon web sites and allows you to edit, delete, and add sites.It can create and convert XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel. |
| IconCool Icon Editor
IconCool Icon Editor is an easy-to-use icon editor that has all the functions for creating and editing ICO, ANI, CUR, GIF, JPEG, WMF, EMF, TGA, and WBMP files. You can convert images in 25 formats to icons, and you can modify or replace icon images in EXE, DLL, ICL, or any other format directly. The program has 60 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, and Color Balance. It has 15 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, Rectangular Gradient, WAV, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, Noise, and Arbitrary Rotation. It has a smart image-capturing tool, which can be used to capture various-size images from desktops or from any other software. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel, and now you can easily create semitransparent XP icons. |
| IconDeveloper
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. A host of built in features will automatically create different sizes/formats of an icon saving you a great deal of work. It can even change the colors intelligently of entire sets of icons (i.e. change all those blue folders to yellow folders without touching the rest of the icon). |
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| Icon Editor
Icon Editor is for 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 icons and Windows cursors. The program provides all the icon/cursor drawing tools and a variety of advanced image manipulation functions, with an extremely efficient arrangement. Special capabilities include lining up several icons for edit at any one time, adding special effects, optionally saving to single-icon or multi-icon files, extracting both large and small icons from DLL or similar library files, searching and pulling icons from all EXE files in any chosen folder, converting BMP/GIF/JPEG/WFM/EMF images to icons, adding solid or hollow text at any angle, creating ANI (animated cursor) files or obtaining icons from them, resizing by edge-dragging, revealing specific alpha values of individual pixels of Windows XP icons, and editing them or converting them for use in both XP and non-XP systems. |
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IconFilter
Those who build Programs or Desktop-Themes will never have enough Glyphs and Icons. Only this explains why some still download these huge Icon collections. Icon Extractor you can create a starting place for your own Icons by extracting all Icons from a your EXE or DLL's file. Icon Filter then store the files as Icon file (*.ICO), Cursor File (*,.CUR) or it converts to a Bitmap File (Glyph, *.BMP), For getting your own Icon Collection quite fast, you may chose to extract all icons from e.g. the 'exe' or 'dll' files in the windows directory within one mouse click. In case you decide to produce BMP icons (Glyphs) you can optional also generate a HTML Gallery to view those images. |
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IconFinder
IconFinder is a very simple program to search for and extract icon resources in files. No Installer/Uninstaller is necessary since it is a single executable file which only uses standard system API calls. This is a major re-write to address issues with the user interface which many people have complained about. |
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IconForge
This graphics suite allows you to create, extract, and modify icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors, and other images. It may be used for creating bookmark and favorites icons for your Web site pages, filmstrip animation sequences, stitching together panels of icons, and editing other images. Features include a set of standard and enhanced editing tools; transparent, inverse paint; extract from icon (including OS2, Linux XBM and XPM, XP alpha-channel, and other formats), cursor, animation, program and image files; export to animation or image formats; edit icons within programs (EXE, DLL, and so on); effects filters; animation tools; add icons to scripts and documents that normally do not have unique icons; generate icon or cursor libraries and standalone albums; and managing desktop settings and including animated icons on the desktop. |
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IconMagic
IconMagic can help you create icons of different styles and individualize your desktop and folders. It offers powerful gradient tools, various filters, and many predesigned masks to help you design a specialized icon in minutes. Furthermore, the most appropriate palette will be generated automatically, so you needn't be concerned about the arrangement and assignment of colors. |
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Icon Maker Deluxe
This new version of IconMaker has several new things like: Support for more picture formats, extraction of icons out of dll and exe files, selecting your own transparency color and set a tolerance for it. It has also a new interface. |
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Iconoid
Iconoid is a desktop icon management tool with which you can change icon text and background colors, make text backgrounds transparent, hide icons when you don't need them and see them when you do (based on mouse pointer location). Iconoid can automatically determine the optimal text background color based on your current wallpaper or you can select your own color from a color box or directly from your current wallpaper. Iconoid also saves and restores icon positions when your screen resolution changes. |
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Icon Sucker
Icon Sucker is a utility that allows you to extract, or 'suck', icons out of the files on your hard drive. Icon Sucker can extract icons from both 16-bit and 32-bit applications and libraries, including the following types: ICO, ICL, DLL, EXE, OCX, CPL, BPL, SCR, VBX, DRV. Icon Sucker uses a Windows Explorer-style user interface to find files to extract icons from. You can then copy icons to the clipboard and save them to a file. |
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IconUtils
IconUtils is a complete icon and cursor solution. Make smooth, semitransparent icons for Windows XP. Edit icons and cursors in color depths up to true color. Create static and animated cursors. Arrange icons and cursors into libraries. Convert icons and cursors to ICO, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, CUR, ANI, PSD, WMF, and WBMP formats and vice versa. Customize the icons used to display various folders to be able to distinguish them at a glance. Version 2.0 includes ArtIcons 4.03, ArtCursors 4.0, Any to Icon 2.1, Icon to Any 2.01, and AhaView 2.1. |
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IconXP
Use this powerful utility to edit icons and customize Windows. IconXP contains a variety of paint tools to let you edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. For Windows XP icons, you can add impressive drop shadow and smooth effects. You can import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, CUR, ANI, GIF, WMF, PNG and Adobe Photoshop PSD files. You can customize Windows Desktop icons and folder icons. |
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Instant Icon & Cursor
Make an icon or cursor from anything you see. Frame your target and click. It even freezes animations at the press of a key. Pick your own mask color to create tranparent areas. New, powerful editor, full of options and very easy to use. |
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Microangelo
Microangelo has language packs now available for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, and Russian. Microangelo allows you to locate, manage, create, edit, and animate your computer icons. Consisting of five utilities integrated in one complete package, this icon software helps you create an individual look for your PC. The latest version adds multiple-monitor icon support and fixes a bug in which Windows XP would revert some customized icons to the default Windows icons. |
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Microangelo On Display
Microangelo On Display lets you customize Windows icons. (See a screenshot.) With a few exceptions, you can customize icons by right-clicking on them. The software automatically tailors itself to each of the Windows platforms and works on any icon displayed on your desktop, in open folders, in Explorer windows, and just about everywhere else that Windows displays icons. Whether the icon represents a file, a folder, a shortcut, a disk drive, a part of the network, or any of the various special folders and objects under Windows, On Display lets you customize it. Version 2.0 introduced animated icons on the Windows desktop. Also, you can choose your own text color and, if you like, you can change the background text color. Version 2.5 introduces enhanced support for Windows XP and Windows XP icons. |
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My Buddy Icons
My Buddy Icons is an easy-to-use AIM buddy icon tool. It allows you to customize, modify or make your own buddy icons, then send them into your AIM to change your buddy icons directly. In the Favorites list, My Buddy Icons already includes more than 150 original icons which were created by Newera IconCool Team. You can directly send this cool icons into your AIM. My Buddy Icons allows you to customize your buddy icons with 20 image filters, you can easily adjust their color-balance or brightness
My Buddy Icons can combine your favorite icons with many background images, it also allows you to adjust the icon sizes or positions. My Buddy Icons also has a website directory for buddy icons, it allows you to find many excellent buddy icons on internet. My Buddy Icons can capture images from the buddy icon websites, your desktop or any other software, then saves them as buddy icons. My Buddy Icons can import images in the following formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, ICO, ICL, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP and WMF. You can easily convert your photos or pictures into buddy icons. |
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Paraben's Icon Builder
Try a complete icon maker that allows you to create icons from scratch or convert existing images to icons. Easily create icons for Windows, Unix, or Linux. Create animated icons, cursors, animated cursors, bitmap images, and even wireless bitmaps (WBMP) for you WAP-Phone. Comprehensive editing capabilities including antialiasing, gradiation, shadowing, inverting, text & font styling, spray, and more. Extract icons from EXE or DLL files. |
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PixelToolbox
PixelToolbox is the complete solution for designing desktop graphics for the Windows operating system. Create, edit, and apply 1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors - all from a single integrated environment. PixelToolbox offers the standard set of painting tools along with a few filters and features not found in other software. The unique interface, tools, and workflow were engineered to maximize your creative potential. |
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QTam Bitmap to Icon
QTam Bitmap to Icon is a small program designed for creating icons. Simply resize your image to 32x32 or 48x48 pixels and then use this program to convert the BMP to ICO. No other runtime DLL is needed. The program has an autoconvert function and the ability to mask all valid BMPs in the directory to ICOs with one touch. Version 3.1 fixed the black spot bug from the previous version. Version 3.5 supports a Multi-Resource Icon Format. Also, the Preset Answers option lets you work much faster than before. |
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