IconForge is simply the best, most complete suite to create or change icons, cursors, Animated Cursors and icon libraries for Windows. Optimized for editing small images, you will find a full set of painting tools at your disposal. You can import from and export to a variety of other image, icon and animation types, so you can take advantage of work which you've already created or scanned from other sources.
IconForge is also an excellent tool for other graphics, such as producing bookmark/favorites icons for a web site, repeating tiles for wallpaper backgrounds, animated GIF bullets to make listings stand out, or cursors for various projects.
* Brushes - click twice on the tool to choose natural media such as chalk, watercolor, oil (or create your own custom brushes with the Brush options). Options to control the transparency of the brush, allow each stroke to fade out, etc. You can also paint using material from another icon or image, or paint with Clip-art Brushes;
* Color Extractor Tools - Extract painting color, set transparent color or set Cursor Hot Spot;
* Rectangles Tools - Normal, 3D, Fuzzy, Rounded, Bordered or Gradient options;
* Ellipse/Polygon Tools - Circle, Fuzzy Circle, Polygon, Bordered Polygon, Star;
* Line Tools - Straight Line, Curve, Arrow and Gradient;
* Fill Tools - Flood, Fill to Border or Color Replacement (all with color similarity, intensity and other options);
* Scissors/Selection Tools - (Normal rectangle, Circle/elliptical, Select freeform Region and Select by Filling modes;
* Clone Tool - Paint using material from another part of the image, or from any other open image;
* 3D Tools - Add 3D shapes and text;
* Text - use any installed Windows font;
* Erasers - Normal and Color-to-Color Replacement, and Color Channel Eraser;
* Retouch Tools - Scatter, Splatter (random spray), Darken, Lighten, Smudge and Sharpen;
