ABC Amber ICL Converter is an advanced tool to extract icons from your ICL (Icon Library) files and convert them to any graphics format you wish (BMP, WMF, EMF, ICO, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PCX, PCC, DCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, TGA, etc). The software supports more than 50 languages and can be run from a command line. Conversion to PDF (does not need Adobe Acrobat to be installed). **Dee's Pick!"» more info, screenshot
Cursorwiz is a free online web application for creating and testing custom cursors and icons. You can: - Pick a color from the color circle or from the grid with the colored squares. Draw transparent by clicking the pencil with the checks at the tip. Draw with a thick or thin line by clicking on the pencil. Use the Stamps to build up patterns on the drawing grid. Set Hotspot (The part of the cursor that you click with) between 1and 32. Upload an image to use as a Cursor (jpeg or png only). Download the cursor in Cursor file format or as a Desktop icon. VERY IMPORTANT: your browser MUST have Microsoft Silverlight to be able to use this app, there is a download link on the page for Silverlight.
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a professional, yet easy to use tool for designing and retouching icons, cursors, animations and static images, and assembling icon libraries. It has a wide range of features, can handle ICO/CUR/PNG/XPM/BMP/JPEG files. Can create Vista-compatible, PNG compressed icons. Uses dynamic color depth: you do not have to specify it explicitly, Greenfish Icon Editor will determine it for you. Has many filters including Remove matte, Drop shadow, Inner/Outer glow and Bevel. Some sample documents are included. No installation required, multilingual interface (17 languages).
IcoFX is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there's virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images.
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Icon Converter is a program to create an icon or cursor from all or part of an image, it can also save an icon as an image. Create icon files with multiple resolutions, create Vista compatible (up to 256x256) icons using images with alpha (transparency) data. Create a transparency mask for the icon, create a cursor (with hotpoint) from an image, extract the icon from an executable.
A fully featured Icon Editor capable of creating Icon(ico) and Cursor(cur) files containing icons of different sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48) and color depths (2, 16, 256, True Color). Additional tools include importing a picture of any size and exporting as a bitmap.
Extracts icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc) with the ability to scan folders to search for EXE, DLL, OCX files, which contain icons. You can save extracted icons to file(s) - all from selected file, all from selected folder or selected icon only. Supported formats to export icons are: ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF, HTML. You can print extracted icons (all or selected only). Most of the operations can be performed through the command line.
IconShop is a librarian that offers the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Read and write ICL icon libraries. Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them. Drag and drop icons between IconShop windows. Drag and drop icon images between IconShop windows. Extract icons from Windows icons, resources, executables and libraries. Extract icons from Macintosh icons, resources, IconDropper icon packs and executables, including MacOS 8.5 24-bit icons. Convert bitmap files to icons. Export icons from a library in icon, cursor or bitmap format. Tiny executable size.
Make your own 32x32, 16 color icons, easy and fun to use just pick a tool and start drawing your icon. You can also download a folder of 25 sample icons.
RealWorld Cursor Editor can create and edit static and animated Windows cursors. A drag-and-drop based interface allows users to easily reorder, duplicate, or append frames to animated cursors. Images in cursors can be modified by drawing tools such as Lines, Curves, Rectangles, or Ellipses. Application contains several predefined filters covering color corrections, sharpening, softening, motion blur, and other effects.