Paint Pro and Cool Paint Pro Image Editing Software for Windows

Just Buttons
$19.95 - Lincoln Beach Software

Need to create a button or banner for your web site but don't want to learn how to use those complicated paint programs? Well Just Buttons lets you create web buttons and banners instantly, just the way you want! Including Javascript mouseover and mousedown events! Just Buttons lets you add text, lines and shapes as well as graphics to let you create the exact button you want. Really cool glass and plastic buttons are just a click away. Text captions are easy to add and customize. All the normal attributes such as justification, bolding, underlining and italics are included. Various text formatting options allow you to create stunning visual effects such as raised/recessed text as well as various shadowed effects in only a few clicks. Add shapes to give your buttons effects such as LEDs or an engraved look. You also have the ability to import existing button images to use as your button base. The possibilities are endless!

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Pixy Professional
$20 - Activeware

Pixy Professional is unlike some pixel colour reporting programs, simple to use, easy to understand pixel colour reporting. Using Pixy Professional saves you time and increases productivity, because you don't have to waste time print screening or using paint programs to find the colour of a pixel. With a simple Follow Mouse function, you can see exactly the colour of the pixel your mouse is pointing at and with a push of a hotkey you can get the colour reference or a print screen capture. Various Zoom and Screen Capture settings.

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Junior Icon Editor
$19.95 - SibCode

Junior Icon Editor allows you to edit icons for Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, ME, 98, 95, NT and other. This easy icon editor supports ICO, 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 Junior Icon Editor opens a window with a interface similar to the Windows paint program. You can set Junior Icon Editor 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.

Junior Icon Editor is easy icon editor!

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IconoMaker
$29.95 - Icon Empire

IconoMaker 3.0 allows you to edit icons for Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, ME, 98, 95, NT and other versions. It supports ICO, PNG, XPM, XBM and other graphics formats. 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, semi-transparency is available.

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.

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AMC e-Paint
$29.99 - Alchemy Mindworks

AMC e-Paint is a Windows paint application. It's easy to use, quick to learn and less difficult to master than many brands of soap. It embodies robust painting functionality, but it won't burden you with innumerable features to click through to perform simple tasks. E-Paint's features include a variety of selection tools; antialiased drawing and text; a gallery of image processing filters ranging from tastefully subtle to breathtakingly wild; multiple document handling, soft brushes, local undo, variable magnification and an intuitive user interface - you might not even need its extensive, accessible documentation and tutorials. You'll find e-Paint to be the perfect tool for fine-tuning your digital photographs; drawing cells for web page animations; creating original artwork; building graphics for business presentations or, if you're employed by one of the supermarket tabloids, gluing the head of the president of the United States onto the body of an extraterrestrial. It has few limits, and in the latter example, very little shame.

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IconDeveloper
$19.95 - Stardock Systems

IconDeveloper is a program that makes it a snap to create your own icons for Windows. Most icon editors come with their own graphics editor. IconDeveloper doesn't. Instead, it assumes that most people who want to create icons are either going to create them using an existing graphics package like Photoshop, MS Paint, CorelDraw, or they take existing images (.BMP, .PNG, .JPG, etc.) and turn those into icons.

So instead of putting effort into a bitmap editor, IconDeveloper focuses itself on making it really, really easy to turn existing images into Windows icons and allowing for common modification of those icons (resizing, color changing, etc.). The result is a program that makes icons extremely fast, extremely well and extremely easily.

The free version allows for the creation of standard Windows icons, Windows XP icons, and shell integration.

An enhanced version is also available for $19.95, which adds additional features such as creating and editing any sized icons at any resolution up to 256x256, changing the hue/gamma/color of the icons, batch convert and batch colorize entire folders of icons. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock's premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: .

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