IconForge Icon Editing Tool Kit   
http://www.cursorarts.com

A complete graphics suite for creating, extracting, and modifying icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors and other images. Use for creating bookmark and favorites icons for your web pages, filmstrip animation sequences, stitching together panels of icons, and editing other images. A PARTIAL LISTING OF FEATURES INCLUDES: * A full set of painting tools; * Transparent and Inverse paint; * Extract icons and cursors from EXE, DLL, ICO, ANI, ICL, or CUR format files (including OS2, XP Alpha-channel icons and cursors, XBM, XPM, WBMP and Palm Datebook icon files); * Read/write most common image files (such as BMP, JPEG, GIF, PCX, TIFF, etc.); * Capture icons from the screen; * Clip and/or scale on import; * Save in icon/cursor formats, store in Library files; * Insert icons into program files (including EXE, DLL, VBX, OCX, CPL and DRV); * Special Effects filters (including User Defined and PS-style plugins); * Automatic creation of common animation effects, such as Dissolves and Fades; * Import/export animated GIF, FLC, FLI and AVI files; * Export animations as .BMP filmstrip panels; * Icon Wrapper utility allows you to wrap programs and scripts which do not contain icon resources into an executable with your own icon; * Change system icons/cursors (including animation of desktop icons); * Allows you to create and distribute icon and cursor library EXE programs, complete with installation program, image preview applet, and other options; * Can also edit photos and larger images; * Support for TWAIN scanners and cameras; * Support for pressure-sensitive Stylus and Tablet devices; * and much more...

Icon Catcher   
http://www.helexis.com

Finding necessary icon images for your shortcuts/documents is not easy task. Before downloading one of those gigantic icon collections, consider that one probably already exists on your hard drive! Average computer contains hundreds, even thousands of different icons "hidden" in a variety of files on your drives and you can get them all with Icon Catcher! Icon Catcher 4.0 is a high-speed batch icon extractor and processor capable of scanning over 3000 icons in one minute. The program supports 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel. Icon Catcher can process icons with custom sizes, from monochrome to true color formats. Extended filtering options let the users select the color palette or size or combination of those parameters to make search for necessary icons easy and fast. The program extracts icons from any source files, including .ico, .exe, .icl, .dll, .scr, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and others, and allows users to later save the icons in libraries or separate .ico files. The new version of software has a brand new improved user interface that is intuitive and very easy to navigate through large icon collections. The program does not require any special skills or knowledge and can be used by virtually anybody. Best of all, the BETA version is distributed free of charge and can be downloaded from our website. Download your copy now!

IconCool Editor   
http://www.iconcool.com

IconCool Editor is a powerful icon editor to edit icons, cursors and web graphics. It comes with all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, GIF, JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and WBMP image files. In addition, it offers more than 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, Color Balance... as well as 20 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Redial Gradient, Rectangular Gradient, Wave, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, Noise, Arbitrary Rotation and more. IconCool Editor is also a smart image capturing tool can be used to capture images of various sizes from desktop or any other software. You can convert images in 25 formats to icons, You can extract icons from EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX or any other files and then edit or re-save them. In addition, it offers a 100-level Undo/Redo function, support for non-standard icons sizes and more. Supports XP 32bit icons. . A powerful icon maker, icon creator, small image editor and small graphics maker.

My Buddy Icons   
http://www.iconcool.com

My Buddy Icons is an easy-to-use icon tool to customize, modify or create your own AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) buddy icons, then send them directly to your AIM messenger. The program includes more than 100 original icons which were created by Newera IconCool Team and it allows you to customize your the icons with 20 different image filters and adjust their color-balance or brightness. A built-in capture tool also allows you to capture desktop content as an icon and add it to the collection or save it as .ico file. You can import any image or photo and quickly convert it into a custom buddy icon (or regular icon file). Additional features include links to online resources and more. My Buddy Icons can import images of all popular formats, including BMP, GIF, ICB, ICO, JPG, JPEG and many others.

Icon Scanner   
http://www.softspice.com

Icon Scanner is utility for searching, extracting, creating and converting icons. Icon Scanner can - extract all types of icons and bitmaps within nearly any file type (EXE, DLL, OCX and other PE-executable, icon libraries and image files) - create multiformat icons from image files - export icons to the following files formats: GIF, BMP, JPG and PNG - easily create and convert multiply icons - supports Windows XP® icons with Alpha channel, Drag&drop, recursive folder searching