Icon Genesis and Con Software for Windows

Icon Constructor - advanced icon creator
$29.95 - Icon Constructor

Icon Constructor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF formats into Windows icons. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and much more. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel; now you can create semi-transparent XP icons easily. With just a few clicks, any image you find on the Internet or create in a paint program can be turned into an icon.
Assign eye-catching icons to individual Windows folders, making every folder different.
Our FriendlyLINK (c) technology allows creating icons using pictures of your friends and family. By clicking on this icon default e-mail client will start and you?ll be able to send letter. Add faces to your communications in Internet!
The simple Icon Constructor interface makes it easy to change the look of an individual folder.
This robust program works like the Swiss Army knife of icon creation!

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Picture To Icon
$19.95 - exeicon.com

Picture To Icon converts images or any part on your screen into icons, resizes the icon and extracts icons from libraries. With Picture To Icon you make nice Windows icons of your pictures and digital photos quickly and easily. Picture To Icon converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, CUR, WMF, Png formats into all sizes Windows icons. You can capture any part on your screen and convert it to icon or BMP file. You can resize icon form 1 x 1 icon to 240 x 240 icon. All icon size below 240 x 240 are all supported by Picture To Icon. It's possible to convert 256-color icons into true color or any other color. icons in the exe, dll, ocx and other executable files can be extracted easily. Use this tool, you can convert GIF2ICO, JPG2ICO, BMP2ICO, WMF2ICO,Png2Ico, SCREEN2ICO, CAPTURE ICON FROM SCREEN and RESIZE ICON.

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Desktop Icon Toy
$19.95 - iDeskSoft

Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to make many funny but useful things for your windows desktop icons.

What cool things could you do with Desktop Icon Toy?

Arrange Desktop Icons
You can arrange desktop icons by many complex figures, like:
Clock (all the icons will be aligned as a clock, showing the exact time)
Circle, Cross, Around, Spiral, Horizontal Ellipse, Vertical Ellipse.
Triangle, Rhombus, Pentagon, Hexagon.
4-pointed Star, 5-pointed Star, 6-pointed Star, Hearts
Align to left, right, top or bottom.

Animate Desktop Icons
With Desktop Icon Toy, you could add a hover effect by placing the mouse over a desktop icon. This makes the icon dance or blink & shake its text.

Show/hide Desktop Icons on Demand
With Desktop Icon Toy, your desktop icons could be always hidden. And only would be shown when you really need them (like click desktop, mouse over desktop or over desktop icons).

Now, you could be always enjoying your beautiful wallpaper.

Hide Desktop Icon Texts
You can remove the classic ugly text of desktop icons, optional, instead of a cool pop-up tooltip. The whole desktop will become neat and tidy.

Lock Desktop Icons
Besides save and restore icons layout, Desktop Icon Toy also allows you to lock the desktop icons. Don't worry about carelessly moving your icons again.

More Funny Things
You can remove all desktop icons, but only keep the icon texts.
You can change desktop icons to report mode, all icons will become small, and icon text will be placed on the right of icons.

Other Features
Save different icons' layout according to different screen resolution.
Automatically re-layout/restore-layout when change screen resolution, or add/delete icons.
Remove desktop icon shortcut overlay.
Transparent background of desktop icon texts.
Change the font color and background color of desktop icon texts.

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Icon Searcher
$29.95 - SoftPlus

Icon Searcher performs fast scan of all local hard disks for icon images(Support XP style icon). The program handles lots of different file formats, like DLL, EXE, ICO, ICL, OCX, SCR, CPL, BPL, VBX, DRV and extracts all available icons from files to the user-friendly visual image list.

Icons can be saved as separate icon files or copied to the Windows and then pasted into any application, document, or other environment supporting image pasting. This Program store found icons in database and compress them. Icon Searcher uses saving icons as BMP, ICO, JPG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, TIFF files.

Icon Searcher includes the following main features:

* Easy to use GUI.
* Very fast scan speed!
* Found Icons compressed and store in database , saving disk spase.
* Found Icons keep original name and directory name,if icon is extracted ,then keep the extract filename and icon name.
* Support show how many icons per page,can jump any page you want.
* Support standard Windows icon (48x48 32x32,16x16) and Custom icon sizes(8x8,24x24,35x35,72x72,96x96,128x128).
* monochrome,16,256,16-bit, 24-bit,32-bit true color icons full support.
* Format support (.ICO .BMP .JPG .GIF .PNG .PCX .TGA .TIFF) for saving icons to disk.
* Support copy icon to Windows Clipboard.
* Can be minimized or stop while scanning disks for icons.
* Support Filter icon by name, by size, by color..
* Support save your own icon collection,you can share with other.
* Support multiselect icons.
* Support view and save subicon(s).
* Support save window status ,search option.
* Support save all icons, all selected icons to a location at once, added two save option:choice Overwrite, Auto Rename.
* Support multilingual interface.
* Support delete icons
* Support delete duplicate icons

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Buddy Icon Constructor FREE
$0 - Icon Constructor

Buddy Icon Constructor Free allows to create own buddy icon for on-line messengers.
You can use your pictures, pictures of your friends and family.
You can use you pictures, images from Internet, your art-works. Take any image (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF) and convert in into your personal buddy icon.
Buddy Icon Constructor Free allows rotating. The simple Buddy Icon Constructor Free interface allows you to customize, modify or make your own buddy icons.

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Web Icons - professional icons for web
$0 - Iconshock - web icons

An exquisite combination of pastel colours, and Tones of blue and Grey that will surely provide your application with the clean-cut, sophisticated design your project needs. Original and professional web icons for your websites and software projects. Each web icon is available in four different sizes and six different extensions. It includes web buttons, toolbars icons, shopping cart icons, multimedia icons, user icons

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