Edit Icon

To all the software programmers, icon designers and website developers who are seeking for an icon SDK that can help those to design attractive GUI interface should definitely tryout Edit Icon 2012.1. This software tool will aid anyone to use the icons to embed them in some of the complex project form to the most simple of the tasks. The utility allows you to design icons that go well with several operating systems like Windows, Android, and iOS along with websites. With this tool you can also customize your folders present in your system as well as different desktop items and make them look really lively. Unlike most icons editing solution this editor has got series of brilliant features that makes the icon editing experience really great.

Edit Icon 2012 has got a simple to understand and intuitive looking graphical user interface that can help anyone to create icons very effectively. The icon editor has got standard or custom sizes for the icons which you want to get plus has got color depths in almost sixteen million colors. For Windows OS you can design icons in 32-bit color depth having 8-bit alpha channel. The images can be modified with opacity, grayscale, saturation, rotation and several others plus the facility of painting the images with chess and gradient fill is availed by it. This utility also aids in creation as well as storing images having multiple layers. The editor provides a library where you can create and store entire icons and manage them easily. The editor is very flexible in terms of image format which it can easily import or export into various files like ICO, ICPR, and BMP etc.

There are numerous other features that make Edit Icon 2012.1 one of the most unique tools to create icons. For such versatile features and user-friendly interface we allot 4 stars to it on a scale of five.

Design, draw, import or convert icons into the new Windows 9 compatible Metro format. Edit Icon enables designers to draw Metro-style icons from scratch, import, modify and convert existing images while applying a number of special effects. The tool features user interface in the Metro style, and supports the new 256x256 monochrome PNG format in. You're not limited to creating monochrome Metro-style icons only; the tool supports color images of up to 32-bit True Color with semi-transparency layer.
Edit Icon features all the tools an icon designer needs to produce perfectly looking icons for Aero and Metro-style apps. Designers can import, convert, edit, modify, create new icons and draw them from scratch by using a wide range of available tools. A variety of effects are available including drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. Any combination of these effects can be applied to a bunch of icons at once, allowing, for example, quickly producing Metro-style monochrome icons out of existing Vista or Windows 7 graphics.
The tool allows importing existing icons from a variety of graphic formats including BMP, GIF, PNG, XPM, XBM, Adobe Photoshop and ICO, as well as extracting icons from executable (.EXE) and dynamic library (.DLL) files, ZIP and RAR archives and compressed icon packs. Icons in resolutions of up to 512x512 pixels (Leopard-style) are supported. Collection management and Internet download are supported.
While Edit Icon looks like a native Metro-style app, you can still run it in Windows XP, 2003, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 9 in 32-bit and 64-bit editions.