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IcoFX allows users to create custom icons using a variety of tools. The program's intuitive interface and many features make it a great choice for creating icons.
Much of the program's interface will look familiar to users who have experience with Microsoft Paint, although IcoFX is a little more polished. The program displays content in seven panes, all of which can easily be enabled or disabled under the View menu. One pane helpfully includes a tree layout of the user's computer files, while another holds a preview of the contents of a selected folder. This makes it easy to browse through your computer and find the files you'd like to work with. Users can start with a preselected image or create icons from scratch, and it's easy to do both. The online Help file gives detailed descriptions of the program's functions and also offers a set of tutorials. The program includes all of the standard image-editing functions that one would expect, along with a few standouts. Users can easily convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons, and vice versa. The work area can be viewed at an impressive 10,000 percent, allowing users the ability to do very detailed editing. We also liked program's powerful opacity options. The program is easy enough for novices to use, but it contains features that will be appreciated by more-advanced users as well.
IcoFX is free, and it installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to all users who are looking for a powerful yet easy-to-use icon editor.
Publisher's Description
From IcoFX:
IcoFX is an icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there's virtually no limit to the icons you can create.
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"This program is a lot of fun!"
Version: IcoFX 2.3.1
Pros
* Quite easy to use (standard photo editing).
* Allows you to make beautiful icons and cursors (fixed or animated).
* Fun and Creative.Cons
Haven't seen any.
I had a tiny bit of trouble at first when I tried to make just one icon and use it. For some reason, when I made a single 256x256 icon the icon had a lot of extra space, and the image was small with a huge border. When I instead made the "recommended" set of icons, it worked like a charm. Dunno why.Summary
I have totally reorganized my desktop thanks to IcoFX and it is gorgeous. I now have every icon on my desktop in a folder which has been personalized with pictures. For example, the "My Computer" icon now has a picture of my real computer with my real desktop pasted inside the icon. My "Recycle Bin" is a wastebasket with a bright and beautiful pattern. And I have my hunky German Shepherd, Storm, as an icon for interesting sites about pets. I like to think about some purchases before I make them, so I have an American Express Card image as my Things to Buy (maybe) icon. The possibilities are endless and I am already thinking of others!
I also personalized my cursor, so rather than a little white arrow, it's now a sinewy, highly-visible lime green hand-drawn arrow. I have an animated question-mark cursor with my arrow and a colorful question mark that fades in and out.
I have used Photoshop Elements to create some of the images or to cut them down (ie, remove the background from an image). It is a wonderful program. I like National Geographic for wallpaper - they have many images available for download.
This is a wonderful and fun tool for creating and editing icons and cursors that gets very easy to use as you learn the interface and what it is capable of. It can be used for Macintosh or PC - although my experience is on the PC.
At the current time, it is available for a month of use free, but I will buy it even if I quit using it - I already got my $45 worth. And I like to support people that have made a nice product.
I am now so proud of my desktop, I almost hate to clutter it up with open windows! -
"ultimate free icon converter/editor!"
Version: IcoFX 2.0.1
Pros
everything (things like transparency and much more all works!)
Cons
none at all really :D
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"One of the best I have used to date."
Version: IcoFX 2.0.1
Pros
Has all the requirements
Cons
None that I have found
Summary
Go get it!!
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"It was not free"
Version: IcoFX 2.0.1
Pros
Non at all.....
Cons
Save is disabled after 14 usage.
Summary
Bad!
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"it lied about being free..."
Version: IcoFX 2.0.1
Pros
the review forces an answer in the pro box so this is it
Cons
its not free its a limited trial version
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"Great product overall"
Version: IcoFX 2.0.1
Pros
Easy to work with. and amazingly fast
Cons
Paid program
Summary
I think thi one used to be free. So sad :(
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"IconFX is a solid,easy to use,icon utility."
Version: IcoFX 1.6.4
Pros
A solid tool for creating,and editing icons.The interface is simple,yet powerfull enough to satisfy most.
Brought to us free of charge by IconFX.Cons
None as far as i can see.
Summary
I was able to convert some of my pictures to icons in minutes...a 'crop' tool is included as well.
Creating icons from scratch is straight forward with a color chooser,a toolbar similar to 'mspaint',a zoomed window to paint on,and has an 'actuall size' preview box to watch your progress.
The program does exactly what it claims.My icon utility search is over. -
"You will not find a Free program as good as this one"
Version: IcoFX 1.6.4
Pros
Does everything about icons. Nothing is missing
Cons
Does not support uni-code characters so if i want to open an image i first have to copy it to a directory with no uni-code characters, with is annoying. When it is time to save the icon i have to save it to a non uni-code directory and then move it!!
Summary
Please make it support uni-code
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"Simple powerful"
Version: IcoFX 1.6.4
Pros
Every bit its well endowed.
Cons
Don't know any at moment
Summary
Long ago I have had a similar powerful software bundled with C++ from Microsoft.
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"I gues it has all you would expect and need"
Version: IcoFX 1.6.4
Pros
Most of it
Cons
None by me
