IcoFX 2.3.1 The Professional Icon Editor

IcoFX

The Professional Icon Editor

The only tool you will need to edit icons and cursors

About IcoFX

IcoFX is an award winning professional icon and cursor editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. Create Windows icons up to 256x256 for Windows Vista/7 and Macintosh icons up to 1024x1024 for Macintosh OSX 10.7 Lion.

Create icons and cursors

Create icons for Windows and Macintosh. Support for Windows Vista icons with PNG compression. Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. Support for static and animated cursors. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

Batch process files

You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX. Create, convert, extract or export all your icons or cursors with just a few clicks.

Adjustments and effects

With more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. IcoFX features a collection of intuitive color correction tools. Using these tools you can fine-tune hue, saturation, and luminance, adjust color levels, brightness and contrast.

Images with layers

You can quickly create layer based images using IcoFX. It allows you to rearrange, blend layers and change their opacity. This gives you more control, and you can more easily change the image in the future.

Import, export and extract

You can easily convert your favorite images into icons or cursors, or icons into images. Supported image formats BMP, PNG, JPG, JPG2000, TIF and GIF. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh files.

Resource editor

IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. You can also create cursor libraries.

Full assortment of tools

IcoFX features a full blown image editor with many useful tools. You can use different brush sizes, shapes, hardness, even blending modes when painting.

Soft selections

With IcoFX’s collection of selection tools you can quickly and easily select any part of your images. You can then edit and apply special effects to portions of your image, remove unwanted objects or cut out objects from one image and paste into another. Using the QuickMask you can use the painting tools to refine your selections.

Tutorials

	Create your first icon This tutorial will teach you the basics of icon creation using IcoFX.

	Create an icon from an image This tutorial will show you how to create an icon from an image and how to make the background transparent.

	Create an icon library This tutorial will teach you how to create and edit icon libraries.

	Change the icon of an application This tutorial will show you how to change the icon of a 32 bit application.

	Extract icons from exe or dll files This tutorial shows how you can extract icons from executable and dll files.

	Working with gradients This tutorial shows you how to create and use custom gradients.

	Working with layers and the quick mask Advanced tutorial showing the capabilities of layers and the quick mask.

	Create a cursor This tutorial will teach you tha basics of static cursor creation using IcoFX.
	Creating a Macintosh icon from an image This tutorial will teach you how to create a Macintosh icons from an images.
	Capture an area of the screen This tutorial will teach you how to capture an area of the desktop or another application and create an icon from it.
	Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons This tutorial will show you how to convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa.
	Create favicons for your website This tutorial will teach you how to create and use favicons on your web site or blog.
	Creating custom brushes This tutorial will show you how to create your custom brishes for IcoFX.
	Batch create icons from images This tutorial will teach you how to batch create icons from images or batch convert icons.