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IconoMaker 2.20
IconoMaker allows you to edit icons for Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, ME, 98, 95, NT and other. It supports ICO, PNG, XPM, XBM and ICPR icon formats. Using this program you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color depths up to 32-bit True Color with 8-bit alpha channel. Paint tools include: color replacer, color selector, spray can, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line tool, rectangle, curve and ellipse. For Windows XP and Windows Vista icons, you get to use semi-transparency. Launching IconoMaker opens a window with a interface similar to the Windows paint program. You can set IconoMaker to open to a new icon window or nothing. The new icon window shows a grid display with the grid matching the resolution of the icon you want to create. Along the left side are a set of drawing tools typical to most paint programs, including a color picker, eraser, pencil, air brush, paint brush and bucket (flood fill), text, rectangles, ellipses and lines. On the right side of the grid is a color chart (256) to choose from 256 colors. The grid overlay is tabbed, allowing you to open and work on more than one icon, either different sizes of the same icon, or completely different icons. Also shown on the right is a display of how your icon(s) appears actual size. With these tools, anyone can take advantage of the grid overlay and fill in the squares to create an icon that maximizes your artistic skills. And it`s free!
CustomIcons 4.0
CustomIcons is an ultimate tool for customizing the icons on your desktop, in Windows Start menu, for your folders and many other locations. Using CustomIcons you can easily replace default Windows icons with the ones to your choice and customize a wide variety of desktop attributes. Are you bored with your standard run-of-the-mill desktop, which looks exactly like thousands of other desktops all over the world? CustomIcons provides an easy and elegant solution for this problem! Using this small handy tool you can easily replace standard Windows icons with the ones you like and customize desktop attributes. You can change even those icons that cannot be changed using standard Windows tools. With CustomIcons you can: 1) Replace the default icons Windows uses to display My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, shortcut and share overlays, system folders and other objects. 2) Customize user folder icons. 2) Colorize icons and Start menu items. 3) Export any standard Windows icon into an individual ICO, BMP, GIF, PNG or JPEG file. 4) Remove shortcut overlays or replace them with your own images. 5) Change icons size and color resolution without changing your monitor settings (make those icons really big if you want!). 6) Rebuild and repair the icon cache (this feature lets you restore the desktop after a system crash). 7) Create stylish icons from your photos and images. 8) Customize folder and file type icons. If you like to tweak your system, CustomIcons will definitely be a great addition to your utilities collection.
AhaView Free 1.1
AhaView is a handy image viewer and converter. It displays images in the all popular formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, CUR, ANI, WBMP, PSD. It has a thumbnail mode and you can quickly browse through numerous image files, open any of them to full size with a double click, and convert images to JPEG and Windows Bitmap formats. Simply click on the folder you wish to view, and all image files are immediately displayed as thumbnails. Highlighting the image will display a larger image, and double clicking it will show it in the fullscreen mode. You can check image properties in the taskbar. Also you can move, copy and rename files and copy images to the clipboard.