Powerful Icon Editor

Icons present on your desktop or anywhere in your computer appear stereotyped and give very little option to play around with. So if you get the icons to look very attractive and following the current trend style then by far the best solution for you would be Powerful Icon Editor 3.30. Same way as its name goes, the application offers a fantastic display place to edit and customize the icons for Windows desktop appearance. It is a rich editing tool with plethora of editing functionalities which gives you the opportunity to have brilliant looking icons sitting brightly on the desktop. Feature wise too, the utility offers quite an affluent collection via which you create the icons not just effectively but also can get a majestic experience out of it.

Powerful Icon Editor can enable you to change the default looking Windows icons like My Computer, Internet, Recycle Bin, Start Menu and various other objects into attractive ones. Creation or editing of icons in color depths up-to 16 million colors in both standard and custom size is possible. Even icons that are as large as 3000x3000 can be edited without trouble by it. The application supports almost all the image formats available in the market (Like ICO, ICPR, BMP, XPM, XBM, PSD etc.), which it can import as well as export. It also includes wide number of paint tools such as pencil, brush, color replacer, different shapes etc. More so both chess fill and gradient could be added in it as paint. These facilities make it very similar to the paint which comes with Windows.

This icon editing tool also assists in importing icon palettes, sorting images inside icons, customizing folder icons, customizing desktop attributes etc. Powerful Icon Editor for all it serves in editing icons make us rate it with 3 stars on a scale of five.

This Powerful Icon Editor allows you to edit icons and customize the Windows desktop appearance. It supports the new icon format introduced in Windows Vista (employs smooth transparency and other visual effects). 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, ellipse, 3d frame. Modifiers can also be used to apply color gradients and chess fills. For Windows XP icons, you get to add cool drop shadow and smooth effects.
IconXP supports .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .xpm, .xbm, .wbmp, Mac OS icons and Adobe Photoshop .psd file formats. You can import images from screen captures. IconXP allows you to import, export and change color palettes for icon images.
IconXP allows you to change standard Windows icons, folder icons and customize desktop attributes. You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects - My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, system folders and your own folders. You can also hide or change shortcut overlays. There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, and rebuild the icon cache.