Portable Greenfish Icon Editor Pro

Numerous particularities of icons are sometimes hardly registered by many users, even though there's a lot of work that goes into crafting a suitable, well-designed icon for your app. When you do see a good icon, you'll probably remember it for long enough to associate it with the app: from Chrome, Firefox, Steam, Spotify, to the Adobe suite products, some icons get to become...iconic with use, owing to their high-quality designs.

How do these icons even get made, anyway? You can try your luck with a more robust photo editing app, such as Photoshop, but what of a dedicated tool? Portable Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is just that - an editor for your icons, with everything that would entail.

The thing about icons is that you'll have to get really up close to start designing them: pixel-peeping is the name of the game here, and the interface of this software application lends itself well to such operations. Whether you're looking to iterate on an existing design, or wish to start everything from scratch, you can do all of that here without a problem.

The viewer is specifically designed to make it convenient for users to work with very small images, which is fitting for such a duty. You can start working on your designs right away, and that works as you would expect: start out by drawing with the pencil tool, adding a few shapes, sprinkle in some text, introduce a few colors to add some pop, and there you have it. In essence, working on your icons is quite convenient here, as the tool allows one to employ a pixel-by-pixel approach, and be accurate with their designs.

Users also have access to a series of tools that can help them be more efficient with their work. Filters of all sorts can be used on your icons: from applying grayscale, inverting colors, and modifying the RGB channels, to adding drop shadow and glow effects, there's quite a lot you can do.

Besides that, users can apply these filters in a localized manner by highlighting only the parts of their icon they wish to work with. This process is made even easier by the good edge-detection when using the Wand tool.

Portable Greenfish Icon Editor Pro does as it says on the packaging: it can be your trusty icon-editing software without a problem, as it's got everything you would want for such a task.