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Metro Icon Editor is a professional tool for creating, editing, and managing Windows icons. It enables users to design high-quality icons with advanced effects, extract resources from executables, and organize libraries within 32-bit Windows environments.
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  • Pros

    • Supports 32-bit color depth and 8-bit alpha transparency
    • Extracts icons from executables, libraries, and animated cursors
    • Includes gradient, shadow, and color modification tools
    • Batch extracts icons from folders and subfolders automatically
    • Manages icon libraries with drag and drop support
  • Cons

    • Does not support vector-based icon creation or SVG files
    • Operating system support is limited to 32-bit Windows versions
    • Technical focus remains on legacy Windows Vista and 8 standards
    • Offers a restricted selection of five image export formats

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
5.12
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server
  • Windows 2000
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
513
Downloads Last Week
0

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Developer’s Description

Create, edit, import, export, and find icons and manage icon libraries.
Metro Icon Editor is your way for creating and editing PNG-packed Windows Vista icons; icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors; icons for Windows 8 in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel. It offers a professional level workshop for designing the icon structure of your Windows. Want your system outward appearance to be more eye-appealing? Metro Icon Editor has a knack for refining your system interface. Here you will be able to paint images with gradient and chess fill and modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, color replacement, rotate, roll and mirror effects. A variety of graphic formats are available: you can open and edit ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG images, or you can export your creation to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files. Broad opportunities provided by the program allow you to extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files. Moreover, you can extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries. Besides, in Metro Icon Editor you will find some pleasant features that greatly widen the comfort of the program's use: ability to sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries, ability to customize Windows Desktop and folder icons. The program will let you drag and drop files from file shells or icons between different libraries. Needless to say, that Metro Icon Editor supports all 32-bit Windows, so the type of your OS is not a hindrance to your desktop's perfection.

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