Helpsofts Icon Maker

Icon Maker is a small and easy-to-use all-in-one icon utility for icon making, editing, changing, extracting, searching, and exploring. With Icon Maker, you may edit your own professional icons easily and quickly with the built-in editor. Icon Maker allows you editing a transparent or opaque icon. The sizes may be 16 X 16, 32 X 32, 48 X 48, 64 X 64 or custom it as you like. Supports 16x16 and 32x32 Full Transparency True Color Icons. Icon Maker has most of the basic image editor type settings: pen, fill, Eclipse, rect, text, selections, etc.`But also includes gradient rectangles and gradient eclipses. Also has mild support for custom brushes and my own type of plugins. Drag and Drop is supported as well is bmp, gif or jpeg to icon conversion. Icon Maker Can also load language packs for our non-english reading friends. Included is the Main Project, some sample Plugins Projects, some custom brush files, a read me file about custom brushes and a read me concerning the language packs (with two example packs: one for english and the other for spanish). Some subsets of the Main Project include dynamically loading custom language packs, winconnect (a custom ActiveX for communication through different windows) and hard coding icons (not using savepicture via Visual Basic). Blues, Blur, Brighten, lighten, soften, darken, Color Swap (BRG, GBR, GRB, RGB) , lighten, Plaid, Diffuse, emboss, Glass, and more.